I echo the importance of public procurement remaining a devolved power. The Government contracted Amazon to deliver and collect home tests for covid without bothering to think through the fact that Amazon does not deliver to huge swathes of the Scottish highlands and islands. That kind of ignorance is the reason we need devolution.
United Kingdom Internal Market Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Philippa Whitford
(Scottish National Party)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 22 September 2020.
It occurred during Debate on bills
and
Committee of the Whole House (HC) on United Kingdom Internal Market Bill.
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