Scotland Bill

Debate on bills and Committee of the Whole House (HC) on Monday, 14 March 2011, in the House of Commons.

Scotland Bill. Committee stage second day. Clause 24 - Taxation: introductory, discussed with New clause 8 - Duty on fuel, New clause 15 - Scottish tax on quarrying or mining, New clause 16 - Scottish tax on air travel and New clause 17 - Scottish corporation tax, debated and agreed to with amendments withdrawn or negatived on division. Clause 25 - Amendments relating to the Commissioners for Revenue and Customs, debated and agreed to. Clause 26 - Scottish rate of income tax, discussed with New clause 18 - Orders, debated and agreed to as amended, with other amendments withdrawn or negatived on division. Schedules 3 to 5 agreed to, with Schedule 4 - Scottish tax on land transactions: consequential amendments, agreed to as amended. Clause 27 - Income tax for Scottish taxpayers, debated and agreed to. Clause 28 - Scottish tax on transactions involving interests in land, debated and agreed to. Clause 29 - Disapplication of UK stamp duty land tax, agreed to as amended. Clause 30 - Scottish tax on disposals to landfill, debated and agreed to. Clause 31 - Disapplication of UK landfill tax, agreed to as amended. Clause 32 - Borrowing by Scottish Ministers, debated and agreed to, with amendments withdrawn or negatived on division. Clause 33 - Maximum penalties which may be specified in subordinate legislation, debated and agreed to as amended. Clauses 34 to 37 agreed to. Clause 38 - Commencement, agreed to as amended. Clause 39 agreed to. New clause 18 - Orders, added to the Bill. New clause 1 - Abolition of regional Members of Scottish Parliament, discussed with New clause 2 - Regional Members of Scottish Parliament, under consideration. Progress reported. Committee to sit again tomorrow.

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

525 c49-133

Session

2010-12

Department

Scotland Office

Legislative stage

Committee stage

Procedure

New clauses

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Scotland Bill. Explanatory notes also published (Bill 115-EN).
Tuesday, 30 November 2010
Bills
House of Commons

Deposited Paper DEP2011-0503
Monday, 21 March 2011
Deposited papers
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Proceeding contributions

Stewart Hosie | 525 c115 (Link to this contribution) No, I said that I welcomed the fiscal stimulus to the economy. Many of the efforts on financial inte...

Stewart Hosie | 525 c116 (Link to this contribution) I am not giving way immediately, as I want to carry on developing my case on capital borrowing. Any...

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Stewart Hosie | 525 c116 (Link to this contribution) I do not have a specific figure, and let me tell the hon. Gentleman why. If bonds are issued in such...

Ian Davidson | 525 c116 (Link to this contribution) I want to clarify whether the hon. Gentleman has a specific figure in mind for borrowing. I understa...

Frank Roy | 525 c115 (Link to this contribution) Does that mean that there will be a referendum in Scotland? Yes or no?

Stewart Hosie | 525 c115 (Link to this contribution) I think it was Wendy Alexander who said, ““Bring it on,”” but Labour then ran away. Let us deal with...

Fiona O'Donnell | 525 c115 (Link to this contribution) I was present when Fiona Hyslop gave evidence to the Scottish Affairs Committee, and I am aware that...

Stewart Hosie | 525 c115 (Link to this contribution) I recognise that, which is why the proposal is about affordability, and why the code of practice wou...

Fiona O'Donnell | 525 c115 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is really confusing me. He seems to be trying to have his Dundee cake and eat it....

Stewart Hosie | 525 c114 (Link to this contribution) I certainly think that improving the provisions of the Bill that relate to capital borrowing would s...

Jim McGovern | 525 c114 (Link to this contribution) Most hon. Members will know that the hon. Gentleman is my constituency neighbour. He mentioned ““Str...

Stewart Hosie | 525 c112-4 (Link to this contribution) I thought that my remarks were always understandable. The problem is that we are dealing with the te...

Stewart Hosie | 525 c110 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment 51, in page 24, line 20, leave out from 'which' to end of line 22 and insert...

Mark Lazarowicz | 525 c109 (Link to this contribution) I shall again raise the two points that I raised in relation to clause 29. Can the Scottish Governme...

David Gauke | 525 c109-10 (Link to this contribution) Clause 30 provides for the devolved tax on the disposal of waste to landfill sites in Scotland. One ...

Jim McGovern | 525 c112 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman might have heard me earlier saying that these proceedings are televised. The gene...

Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 525 c110-1 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:

Stewart Hosie | 525 c111-2 (Link to this contribution) The borrowing powers in the Bill are at the heart of devolution. On Second Reading, a number of seri...

David Gauke | 525 c120-2 (Link to this contribution) The point of the amendments that will be introduced on Report is to do exactly as I have described. ...

Fiona O'Donnell | 525 c122 (Link to this contribution) Why did the Conservative members of the Bill Committee in the Scottish Parliament vote for the measu...

David Gauke | 525 c122 (Link to this contribution) We will, of course, look at what the Scottish Parliament has set out and we will engage with those s...

Stewart Hosie | 525 c120 (Link to this contribution) The Exchequer Secretary has said that the Government will be bringing the Scottish rate of income ta...

David Gauke | 525 c119-20 (Link to this contribution) I propose to deal with amendments 51 to 57 first, and I recognise that, as has been said, they partl...

Ann McKechin | 525 c118-9 (Link to this contribution) That marks a first. I cannot recall the Scottish Government asking for less money. I seem to remembe...

Stewart Hosie | 525 c118 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the hon. Lady will want to be generous and accept that I made it clear on two occasio...

Ann McKechin | 525 c118 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the clauses relating to borrowing powers. We agree that they make sense in terms of both s...

Stewart Hosie | 525 c116-8 (Link to this contribution) There are annual amounts and cumulative amounts. The annual amount at 10% of the capital departmenta...

Stewart Hosie | 525 c116 (Link to this contribution) I will give way one more time on this point.

Ian Davidson | 525 c116 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman cannot give a figure, how can he say that £2.2 billion is too small? How does ...

Lindsay Roy | 525 c86 (Link to this contribution) Is it the hon. Lady's contention that full financial accountability is a euphemism for independence?...

David Mowat | 525 c85 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend's answer to that intervention was very generous. It is right that the Scottish Parlia...

Fiona Bruce | 525 c85-6 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a valid point. Let me turn now to the proposals in the Bill. It is only right ...

Sheila Gilmore | 525 c85 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Lady concede, nevertheless, that choices are made about how to spend that block grant ...

Fiona Bruce | 525 c85 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady makes a valid point and that is why I prefaced my remarks with the phrase, ““What need...

Mark Lazarowicz | 525 c89 (Link to this contribution) I want to raise a technical point that was stimulated in my mind by the comments of the hon. Member ...

Ian Murray | 525 c89-90 (Link to this contribution) This evening's debate has centred around the complexities of this hugely complex legislation. I had ...

Fiona Bruce | 525 c86-7 (Link to this contribution) It is my contention that full financial responsibility would not benefit either Scotland or the UK m...

Stewart Hosie | 525 c87-9 (Link to this contribution) I rise to support amendment 42, tabled in my name and those of my hon. Friends, and amendments 43, 4...

Ann McKechin | 525 c80-1 (Link to this contribution) No, I can assure the hon. Gentleman that I do not want to burden the taxpayer unnecessarily with add...

Stewart Hosie | 525 c81 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady will understand that there is a very close relationship, particularly at the lower lev...

Ann McKechin | 525 c81-2 (Link to this contribution) The Holyrood Committee did not consider that in detail, and the Calman commission did not make any s...

David Mowat | 525 c80 (Link to this contribution) Many of the hon. Lady's comments imply that she is unhappy with residency being the method for worki...

Fiona Bruce | 525 c83-5 (Link to this contribution) May I begin by telling hon. Members how pleased I am that, after a thorough independent evaluation o...

Iain Stewart | 525 c82-3 (Link to this contribution) I support the clause, but I wish to raise a couple of specific examples just to test that the defini...

Sheila Gilmore | 525 c83 (Link to this contribution) It is important that we move forward on these tax powers for the Scottish Parliament. The big differ...

Iain Stewart | 525 c97 (Link to this contribution) I have been listening carefully to what the Minister is saying but am still a little puzzled. I unde...

David Gauke | 525 c95-6 (Link to this contribution) The Scottish Parliament has made it clear that it supports the proposals. We are setting them out so...

Stewart Hosie | 525 c94 (Link to this contribution) That is clear. The problem arises if the timing is wrong. Why would the Minister disapply the existi...

David Gauke | 525 c94 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman will forgive me, I want to deal with the amendments first, as I stated in my o...

Lindsay Roy | 525 c94 (Link to this contribution) Given the points made by my hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh South (Ian Murray) and various othe...

Iain Stewart | 525 c97 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister give way?

David Gauke | 525 c96-7 (Link to this contribution) I am always grateful for advice on Scottish vernacular, and to the right hon. Lady for her comments....

Anne McGuire | 525 c96 (Link to this contribution) I want to offer the Minister a note of caution, as the understanding of where a person lives and whe...

Jim McGovern | 525 c97 (Link to this contribution) I presume, and hope, that the Minister has discussed what he is talking about with the Independent P...

Stewart Hosie | 525 c93 (Link to this contribution) The Minister will recall that on a small number of occasions an anti-avoidance measure went further ...

David Gauke | 525 c93-4 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right. There are circumstances in which anti-avoidance measures have been retr...

Jim McGovern | 525 c90 (Link to this contribution) Some of the previous speakers, such as my hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh North and Leith (Mark...

Ian Murray | 525 c90 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for my hon. Friend's intervention, which highlights the fact that the Government's age...

Ian Murray | 525 c90-1 (Link to this contribution) I was about to say that I was delighted to receive an intervention from my hon. Friend, but perhaps ...

Jim McGovern | 525 c90 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend will have used the Caledonian sleeper. Does he agree that ““Murder on the Orient Expr...

David Gauke | 525 c91-3 (Link to this contribution) We have had a lengthy and thorough debate. First, I intend to address the amendments and then set ou...

Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 525 c107 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am sorry. I should have put the Question, because the amendment has already been debated in...

Mark Lazarowicz | 525 c107 (Link to this contribution) For the sake of clarity, the point that I raised about the Scottish Government's ability—

David Gauke | 525 c107 (Link to this contribution) Yes, that would be within the Scottish Government's power. I hope that my points of clarification ar...

Mark Lazarowicz | 525 c106-7 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Exchequer Secretary for his answer on that point, which I think will be received with so...

Mark Lazarowicz | 525 c106 (Link to this contribution) I, too, have a couple of questions, and I would be most grateful if the Exchequer Secretary could de...

Ann McKechin | 525 c105-6 (Link to this contribution) Again, I should like to ask the Exchequer Secretary a couple of technical questions about the implem...

Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 525 c107 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss Government amendments 34 to 36.

David Gauke | 525 c107-9 (Link to this contribution) Schedule 4, which is introduced by clause 29, makes consequential provisions in connection with the ...

David Gauke | 525 c107 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment 33, page 33, line 33, after 'buyers)' insert—

Ann McKechin | 525 c105 (Link to this contribution) I wish to ask the Exchequer Secretary a couple of questions about this technical clause. Can he conf...

Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 525 c101 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady recall the leading case on residence in Scots law—Udny vs. Udny—in which the fact...

Ann McKechin | 525 c101-2 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. Travelling down there on the train to the Labour party conference on a Glasgow holiday weeke...

Jim McGovern | 525 c101 (Link to this contribution) Surely my hon. Friend would agree that going to Blackpool in the summer guarantees that one is Scott...

Ann McKechin | 525 c100-1 (Link to this contribution) May I welcome you to the Chair again on this Bill, Ms Primarolo? I also thank the Minister for a ful...

David Gauke | 525 c97-100 (Link to this contribution) I will come to condition C in a moment, which I hope will provide the hon. Gentleman with the answer...

Ann McKechin | 525 c101 (Link to this contribution) Yes, indeed. That brings us to how the questions are phrased on any self-assessment form and the gu...

Anne McGuire | 525 c101 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend recognise that the situation can be further complicated if one asks where they c...

David Gauke | 525 c105 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Lady for her questions. If somebody is classed as a Scottish taxpayer, they will be...

Jim McGovern | 525 c132 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that most people would recognise their MP, some would recognise their MSP,...

Angus Brendan MacNeil | 525 c132 (Link to this contribution) indicated dissent.

Brian H Donohoe | 525 c132 (Link to this contribution) I did not think he would. That demonstrates exactly what I am saying. There is no accountability, an...

Brian H Donohoe | 525 c131-2 (Link to this contribution) I am sure my hon. Friend has examined my two new clauses, which are self-supporting. It is correct t...

Brian H Donohoe | 525 c131 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure that I want to wander down that road, because the hon. Lady is well aware that I am th...

Mark Lazarowicz | 525 c131 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend clearly has strong views. I must say that in the area that I represent, where there a...

Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 525 c131 (Link to this contribution) I understand that the hon. Gentleman's argument is that the simple first-past-the-post system used i...

Brian H Donohoe | 525 c131 (Link to this contribution) I had the greatest respect for Phil Gallie, the former MP for Ayr, who was also a list MSP. He hated...

David Mundell | 525 c130 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Brian H Donohoe | 525 c130 (Link to this contribution) Oh, go on then.

David Mundell | 525 c130-1 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has been very consistent on this issue, and I respect his views even though I do ...

Pete Wishart | 525 c130 (Link to this contribution) I am interested to know the view of the Labour party on this issue. The names of the hon. Gentleman ...

Brian H Donohoe | 525 c130 (Link to this contribution) I am sure the hon. Gentleman knows that there are varying views on the subject, as there are on many...

Jim McGovern | 525 c130 (Link to this contribution) I go round the doors every weekend, as I am sure does my hon. Friend and most Members here. Does he ...

Brian H Donohoe | 525 c130 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. I will develop that argument in my speech.

Mark Lazarowicz | 525 c129 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend describes the provisions for a system of proportional representation as irksome. How ...

Brian H Donohoe | 525 c129 (Link to this contribution) New clauses 1 and 2 relate to regional Members of the Scottish Parliament, which were introduced in ...

Brian H Donohoe | 525 c129-30 (Link to this contribution) Since I have been in a position to see this matter at first hand, I have received many representatio...

Brian H Donohoe | 525 c129 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.

Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 525 c129 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss new clause 2—

Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 525 c127 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss Government amendment 32.

David Mundell | 525 c127-8 (Link to this contribution) The Government have identified the need for these minor technical amendments to clause 33, which upd...

David Gauke | 525 c122-3 (Link to this contribution) I note the hon. Lady's comments. We are looking carefully at the recommendations by the Committee in...

Stewart Hosie | 525 c123-4 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has said a great deal, and it was very instructive indeed. The Scottish Government will...

Ian Davidson | 525 c127 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr Hoyle. According to the votes, eight nationalists have been voting on all th...

Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 525 c127 (Link to this contribution) Now, then.

David Mundell | 525 c127 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment 31, page 25, line 31, leave out 'the amount specified as'.

Ian Davidson | 525 c122 (Link to this contribution) Am I correct in assuming that the Minister is pretty strongly wedded to the set of proposals that he...

David Gauke | 525 c122 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman sets the position out well, and I do not disagree with him. The Bill essentially ...

Ann McKechin | 525 c122 (Link to this contribution) I asked a question about the transitional borrowing powers that require Treasury consent, and whethe...

Angus Brendan MacNeil | 525 c133 (Link to this contribution) indicated assent.

Brian H Donohoe | 525 c133 (Link to this contribution) Am I right?

Angus Brendan MacNeil | 525 c133 (Link to this contribution) Think?

Angus Brendan MacNeil | 525 c133 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman tell us— The occupant of the Chair left the Chair (Programme Order, 27 Janu...

Brian H Donohoe | 525 c133 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman indicates that I got that one right. The fact is that we must look seriously at ...

Brian H Donohoe | 525 c132 (Link to this contribution) The only one I could think anybody would recognise would be the ex-Member for Cumnock, Carrick and D...

Angus Brendan MacNeil | 525 c132 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful that the hon. Gentleman mentions list MSPs. In the Highlands, we know that Rob Gibson ...

Pete Wishart | 525 c132 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman know how many people in Scotland recognise Iain Gray? What would he make of ...

Brian H Donohoe | 525 c132 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes my point. Nobody actually knows their list Members. I could not name the on...

Angus Brendan MacNeil | 525 c132 (Link to this contribution) I do not know who the Highland Labour list MSPs are, so could the hon. Gentleman inform us?

Brian H Donohoe | 525 c132 (Link to this contribution) I think one of them is David Stewart.

Ann McKechin | 525 c73-4 (Link to this contribution) I should like to ask the Minister a couple of questions about this clause, which is technical in nat...

David Gauke | 525 c74 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Member for Glasgow North (Ann McKechin) for her questions. We do not believe it is ...

Ann McKechin | 525 c70 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps the hon. Gentleman could clarify what rate of corporation tax he would propose if the power ...

Stewart Hosie | 525 c70-1 (Link to this contribution) I would like it cut over a number of years, taking the benefit of the announcement effect and taking...

Ann McKechin | 525 c74 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment 68, in clause 26, page 18, line 11, after 'may', insert"'after consultation ...

Stewart Hosie | 525 c70 (Link to this contribution) Let me respond briefly to some of the key points raised. The hon. Member for Dumfries and Galloway (...

Pete Wishart | 525 c69 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps the Minister could answer the question—a question that the hon. Member for Glasgow North (An...

David Gauke | 525 c68-9 (Link to this contribution) The point is that there would be a reduction in the block grant, because the revenues from the aggre...

Jonathan Edwards | 525 c69 (Link to this contribution) The Exchequer Secretary might be aware that the Conservative economics commission in Wales has advoc...

David Gauke | 525 c69 (Link to this contribution) We will consider that. At the moment, however, we are concerned with Scotland and Wales in particula...

John Stevenson | 525 c69 (Link to this contribution) Can the Minister assure me, as a Member representing a seat on the English side of the border, that ...

David Gauke | 525 c69 (Link to this contribution) It would be fair to point out that the Calman commission took into account some of those issues, bec...

Pete Wishart | 525 c69 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister give way?

David Gauke | 525 c69 (Link to this contribution) I am hoping to wind up soon, but I shall give way to the hon. Gentleman.

David Gauke | 525 c68 (Link to this contribution) The risk is this: should it be found subsequently that the aggregates levy, as currently constituted...

Ian Davidson | 525 c68 (Link to this contribution) I am genuinely unclear about the point that the hon. Gentleman is making. I fail to see how the Scot...

Frank Roy | 525 c79 (Link to this contribution) Is it not worth reminding the Committee that, no matter what was said in 1997, the Opposition voted ...

Ann McKechin | 525 c79-80 (Link to this contribution) Indeed, and the fact that we now have converts to the cause shows what a difference the passage of t...

Ann McKechin | 525 c78-9 (Link to this contribution) I was not a Member of Parliament at that time, unlike some of my colleagues who were in the House wh...

Rory Stewart | 525 c79 (Link to this contribution) Given that income tax issues such as this are addressed throughout the world when jurisdictions—for ...

Ann McKechin | 525 c79 (Link to this contribution) As I have made clear on Second Reading and throughout this debate, Labour fully supports the princip...

Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 525 c74-5 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:

Ann McKechin | 525 c75-8 (Link to this contribution) I am speaking to amendments 68, 69 and 70 and I wish to put it on record that the wording of those a...

John Stevenson | 525 c78 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady has raised many issues connected with income tax. I may be demonstrating my ignorance ...

Ann McKechin | 525 c59-61 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman did not refer to any of that evidence in support of his amendments. He also did n...

Stewart Hosie | 525 c59 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady asserted that no information had been provided. The Scottish Government provided an ex...

Ann McKechin | 525 c58-9 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises a pertinent point and one which even those who have argued for fiscal decentra...

Alan Reid | 525 c63 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman should not denigrate the fuel duty derogation in the way that he has. On large is...

Russell Brown | 525 c62-3 (Link to this contribution) I did not intend to speak on the amendments tabled by the hon. Member for Dundee East (Stewart Hosie...

Ann McKechin | 525 c61-2 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Secretary of State for his remarks, but I would prefer to have the earliest pos...

Michael Moore | 525 c61 (Link to this contribution) On the issue of section 57(2) of the 1998 Act and the new clause or amendment that we will table to ...

Russell Brown | 525 c63 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman, like so many people, has merely used the terminology of significant mileage. We ...

Iain Stewart | 525 c56 (Link to this contribution) Not that Mr Hague—this one is spelt Haig. I think the Foreign Secretary is rather preoccupied with m...

Pete Wishart | 525 c55 (Link to this contribution) He's bored and is going to resign.

Iain Stewart | 525 c56-7 (Link to this contribution) I agree with much of what the hon. Gentleman says, but if the Scottish Parliament were responsible f...

Russell Brown | 525 c56 (Link to this contribution) I suggest that the hon. Gentleman responds to his constituent by making him fully aware of what the ...

Iain Stewart | 525 c57 (Link to this contribution) There will be huge consequences, some foreseen, but others unforeseen. We would need to undertake a ...

Stewart Hosie | 525 c57 (Link to this contribution) I have heard the hon. Gentleman make that argument before. He is being reasonable, and is making a r...

Ann McKechin | 525 c57 (Link to this contribution) What a difference a week makes, as we continue our scrutiny of the Bill after our sitting last Monda...

Stewart Hosie | 525 c57-8 (Link to this contribution) I am intrigued by the hon. Lady's introductory remarks. They bear no relation to the amendments, but...

Ann McKechin | 525 c58 (Link to this contribution) We certainly support the principle of devolving the aggregates levy, but I wish to make sure that wh...

Fiona O'Donnell | 525 c58 (Link to this contribution) Is my hon. Friend aware that when the Scottish Affairs Committee played good cop to the Holyrood Bil...

Pete Wishart | 525 c65 (Link to this contribution) I am trying to understand Labour's position on our amendments. They are what the Scottish Bill Commi...

David Gauke | 525 c67 (Link to this contribution) I only wish I could have signed it off—such is my enthusiasm for the Command Paper. I work closely w...

Stewart Hosie | 525 c66-7 (Link to this contribution) The Minister suggests that he signed off the Command Paper with the Secretary of State for Scotland,...

David Gauke | 525 c66 (Link to this contribution) I have never given way quite so often, but perhaps this is the way it works.

David Gauke | 525 c66 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps the hon. Gentleman has read the Command Paper, which was signed off by both the Secretary of...

Pete Wishart | 525 c66 (Link to this contribution) Just before the Minister starts, can he explain why a Treasury Minister is replying to the debate wh...

David Gauke | 525 c66 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Walker, and to respond to the debate on ...

Fiona O'Donnell | 525 c65-6 (Link to this contribution) This may not be something that the hon. Gentleman is used to hearing, but I am going to tell him, ““...

Ian Davidson | 525 c67 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister clarify how it is reckless? What is the element of risk involved were it to be tra...

Fiona O'Donnell | 525 c64-5 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely agree. The whole process has been about consultation, and at some point the SNP has to ...

Fiona O'Donnell | 525 c65 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow North has answered that question. If the hon. Gentleman was no...

Stewart Hosie | 525 c64 (Link to this contribution) This is very confusing. I am not puffed up with pride; I am simply doing my job. We have tabled amen...

Fiona O'Donnell | 525 c63-4 (Link to this contribution) You may not have been present the last time I spoke on the Scotland Bill, Mr Walker, but it was my b...

Sheila Gilmore | 525 c64 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that one reason why we do not need to table copious amendments is that we ...

Fiona O'Donnell | 525 c64 (Link to this contribution) I will withdraw my remark, then, and acknowledge the humility that we have now heard from the hon. G...

Pete Wishart | 525 c65 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Lady give way?

Fiona O'Donnell | 525 c65 (Link to this contribution) No, I would like to make some progress and actually talk about the amendments. [Hon. Members: ““Come...

Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 525 c49-50 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:

Stewart Hosie | 525 c49 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment 37, page 16, line 17, at end insert—

Brian H Donohoe | 525 c51 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Fiona O'Donnell | 525 c51 (Link to this contribution) I cannot let the hon. Gentleman get away with saying that the business community in Scotland support...

Stewart Hosie | 525 c51 (Link to this contribution) I did say that there was significant support in the business community, and I stand by that. The one...

Brian H Donohoe | 525 c50 (Link to this contribution) Name him.

Stewart Hosie | 525 c50-1 (Link to this contribution) I did not want to take up too much time by listing all the business people in annexe A of the Commit...

Stewart Hosie | 525 c50 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship on this second Committee day, Mr Evans. I look for...

Stewart Hosie | 525 c52-3 (Link to this contribution) Not at the moment, because I want to make a couple more points. As we have said in previous debates...

Stewart Hosie | 525 c53-4 (Link to this contribution) Not at the moment. Before I get too distracted, let me return to the Bill. The whole point about th...

Russell Brown | 525 c53 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Stewart Hosie | 525 c53 (Link to this contribution) It was not that they were simply blind to it; members of the Labour party have said—I believe that t...

Angus Brendan MacNeil | 525 c53 (Link to this contribution) Tomorrow, the Leader of the Opposition and the shadow Chancellor will complain about the price of fu...

Fiona O'Donnell | 525 c55 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Stewart Hosie | 525 c55 (Link to this contribution) I am just about to finish. I commend the amendment to the House.

Brian H Donohoe | 525 c54 (Link to this contribution) I have campaigned on this issue for some time, as has the aviation group within the House. We have a...

Stewart Hosie | 525 c54-5 (Link to this contribution) I shall answer that when I come to air passenger duty, because it is a perfectly valid question. In ...

Iain Stewart | 525 c55 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Evans. I shall address the Scottish National p...

Stewart Hosie | 525 c51 (Link to this contribution) Not at the moment. Campbell Christie also said:"““I firmly believe a Scottish government equipped t...

Stewart Hosie | 525 c51-2 (Link to this contribution) No, it is not, and if the hon. Lady looks at later amendments she will find that an entire series of...

Brian H Donohoe | 525 c52 (Link to this contribution) I had experience of the shipyards in the '60s and '70s, and we came upon something called transfer p...

Stewart Hosie | 525 c52 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a very interesting point, which relates to what the Government say. They be...

Angus Brendan MacNeil | 525 c52 (Link to this contribution) Is my hon. Friend aware that there is to be a photo call on fuel outside Westminster at 2.30 tomorro...

Stewart Hosie | 525 c52 (Link to this contribution) That is the sort of analogy a crofter from Barra would want to draw. When in opposition, the Liberal...

Angus Brendan MacNeil | 525 c52 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend give way?

David Gauke | 525 c97 (Link to this contribution) I will, but with some trepidation.

David Gauke | 525 c93 (Link to this contribution) With the greatest respect to the hon. Gentleman, I am not sure that that is entirely in order. I am ...

David Gauke | 525 c70 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland addressed many of those issues earlier, but...

Alan Reid | 525 c63 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I can give the hon. Gentleman an indication of the distances involved. The distance from Fio...

Stewart Hosie | 525 c65 (Link to this contribution) We are hearing some interesting analogies. Far from throwing the eggs or the chicks out of the nest,...

Fiona Bruce | 525 c51 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman says these proposals would be unfair, but one of the fairest things a Government ...

David Gauke | 525 c97 (Link to this contribution) The ordinary meaning of the main place of residence is set out in case law. It is not necessarily de...

Jim McGovern | 525 c93 (Link to this contribution) On the subject of retrospective taxation, the previous Government committed to tax breaks for the co...

David Gauke | 525 c106 (Link to this contribution) As far as the list contained in proposed section 80J is concerned, I can provide the reassurance tha...

Ann McKechin | 525 c101 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. The hon. Lady attracts me into an interesting debate on the difference between residency and...

Brian H Donohoe | 525 c132 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps the hon. Gentleman's smile will be on the other side of his face come the end of May. There ...

Russell Brown | 525 c63 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate the hon. Gentleman's clarification of the distances that people travel. I believe that ...

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