Scotland Bill

I shall answer my noble friend's question and I hope that he will answer mine. It never came up specifically as an issue. My noble friend needs to take account of the point raised by the noble Lord, Lord Steel, that we are talking about an issue entirely different in scale. As the noble Lord, Lord O'Neill of Clackmannan, said in relation to the National Gallery of Scotland—can you imagine that gallery saying, ““Are you Scottish? You can come in free””. If the gallery had then asked an English person to pay £1, they might have said, ““Okay, it's only £1””. But imagine that they were asked for £10, £20 or £30—that is the kind of scale that we are talking about. It would be entirely wrong, and this is the same principle. It is discrimination.