20 Years of Devolution

I pay tribute to the hon. Member for Perth and North Perthshire (Pete Wishart), the Chair of the ...

Is that not the whole point of the Dunlop review? We have an opportunity to look at how we are wo...

The hon. Gentleman is right, because where devolution goes next is not really a problem for Scotl...

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Just across the road, parents whose children are dying...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his point of order, and I am sure the House will agree that he has...

May I first associate myself with the comments of my hon. Friend the Member for Burton (Andrew Gr...

In fairness, the Assembly Government are doing some good things in that regard. For example, they...

I agree with my hon. Friend.

Turning to how the Welsh Assembly has worked over the past 20 ...

It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Aberconwy (Guto Bebb), my hon. Friend the Me...

The hon. Lady is making some important points. Does she agree that, on social care, Wales has muc...

It is an intelligent contribution to the debate that we consider good policies, wherever they com...

It is an honour to follow the hon. Member for Clwyd South (Susan Elan Jones) and, in particular, ...

The hon. Gentleman is making an interesting point about the devolution settlement. We in the high...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his point. I am going to raise a similar one about the north-east ...

You guys?

With Ruth Davidson as First Minister, yes. Like the majority of people in Scotland, the Scottish ...

My colleague on the Scottish Affairs Committee talks a lot about constructive working of the two ...

I thank my fellow Committee member for her intervention but I would not necessarily recognise vot...

It is an honour to follow the hon. Member for Banff and Buchan (David Duguid), and I congratulate...

The hon. Lady makes an important point about accountability. Is she not dismayed, as I sometimes ...

The dynamic of change is a critical aspect of how we have accountability, quality of policy and i...

Let us be honest: a change of Government in Wales would demand a coalition between parties other ...

From Westminster to every Parliament of the United Kingdom, the adversarial way in which we opera...

The first thing I wish to say is that devolution has been a very good thing for Scotland. The Sco...

Mr Speaker, you and I are probably among the few current Members who put the devolution Bill thro...

It is important that we make Scotland the best place to live in the United Kingdom, and that peop...

I am proud to be the only person present in the Chamber who was elected to the Scottish Parliamen...

The hon. Gentleman makes a very good point. I think specifically of the first SNP minority Govern...

My hon. Friend is making a typically impassioned speech. Does he recognise that the Oil and Gas A...

Yes, I do.

The Government should bring forward primary legislation to enable direct UK Gove...

This debate today feels deeply personal to me. I have campaigned all my life for devolution and w...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Cardiff North (Anna McMorrin), and I want to add m...

My hon. Friend is making a very good point about the opportunity that devolution provides to fit ...

I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention, and there is not much more that I can say, because I...

The hon. Gentleman is making an important point. Would he accept my party’s position that perhaps...

I thank the hon. Lady. There is a lot of merit in what she has suggested; it would be a construct...

George Robertson, Labour’s shadow Scottish Secretary in 1997, told Brian Taylor of the BBC that d...

On a point of order, Mr Speaker. I seek your guidance on how I might correct something that may h...

Order. [ Interruption. ] Order. The hon. Gentleman should resume his seat. I am not responsible f...

It is a pleasure to be able to speak in this debate. I thank the hon. Member for Perth and North ...

I was myself one of the original members of the Scottish constitutional convention and I have to ...

I thank my hon. Friend for that reminder that the SNP did not, in fact, take part at all.

D...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Edinburgh West (Christine Jardine) and, indeed, th...

I am delighted to speak in this debate on 20 years of devolution. We now have an entire generatio...

Will the hon. Lady give way?

I will not.

In Scotland, we think about politics differently. We do not consider this Parli...

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Order. The two remaining Back-Bench speeches must be completed by 2.30 pm, whereupon I shall call...

It is a genuine pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for North Ayrshire and Arran (Patric...

May I briefly add one to the hon. Gentleman’s list that is often forgotten—the Scottish Governmen...

I always think the hon. Gentleman is a very thoughtful Member of the House; when he has the oppor...

I congratulate my hon. Friend on making a very powerful speech. In fact, is the situation not eve...

My hon. Friend makes the point. In 2014, people were told, “Oh, you’ll have the triple A credit r...

Thank you, Mr Speaker, for calling me in this important debate.

We recently held a moving d...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I will not; the hon. Gentleman cost me two minutes earlier on.

Over 70,000 Scottish workers...

The Minister must be re-seated by 2.58 pm, so I am looking for speeches of no more than eight or ...

It is a pleasure, as ever, to follow the hon. Member for Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill (Hugh...

Two years to the day since the delivery of his maiden speech and making his first appearance at t...

Thank you, Mr Speaker. I want to start by conveying the apologies of the shadow Secretary of Stat...

May I begin by congratulating the shadow Minister, the hon. Member for Glasgow North East (Mr Swe...

Before the Minister moves on from Scotland, will he give way?

I will take one brief intervention.

Some 63% of Conservative party members have said that they think leaving the EU is much more impo...

I am clear that I am a Unionist and that I want to see the Union remain together, and that poll i...

The commitment of the people of Scotland to the Union is evidenced by the fact that in every elec...

It is always welcome to see how people wish to participate in elections to this Union Parliament,...

I thank everybody for contributing to the debate. We know it will be a good debate when it is con...