Speeches by Doogan.

“309,000 people watched STV North last night at 6 pm.”

“Can you write to us for clarity on both of those points—about where there is another more successful regional broadcast on the ITV network, what the actual viewing figures were for last night and the 40% figure for STV North? It would be helpful to get that defined.”

“Mr Radcliffe, when you were at the Scottish Parliament Committee, you said that if STV becomes sustainable and profitable, it will be able to deliver its public service obligations. That was not the time to make that decision. The time to make that decision was when you were signing up to another 10 years of your licen…”

“Sorry, as an excuse, that only goes so far because you were not signing up to a 12-month licence or a 24-month licence, you were signing up to a 10-year licence. It is your responsibility as the Chief Executive to do due diligence in accordance with the information that you are getting from your executives to see if si…”

“Sometimes crime wears a suit, as happened in Brechin in my constituency, where Mackie Motors had equity in their vehicles stolen by a French bank based in London. Then, through mendacity or incompetence or both, the bank turned off the oxygen for that business of 50 years. I have met with Home Office and Treasury Minis…”

“I congratulate and salute the brave aircrew who intercepted this flagrant breach not just of Poland’s airspace but of the international rules-based order. I do not believe for one second that this was some inadvertent mistake. This is classic Russian playbook. Russia was probing NATO in that attack and will continue to…”

“In the spring statement earlier this year, the Chancellor said that the responsible choice is to reduce our level of borrowing in the years ahead. That is a noble sentiment, which I applaud—if she was not trying to fix a watch with a hammer. This is the Chancellor that has seen UK debt interest now soar to a 27-year hi…”

“If Scotland is lucky, we will get a per capita share of the £250 million in the growth deal, which is barely twice what the SNP Scottish Government have invested in the skills academy in BAE alone. However, the omens are not good, because Scotland is routinely short-changed in defence expenditure. The London Government…”

“An independent northern European nation of 5.5 million people, Norway, has just signed an order for £10 billion-worth of the world’s best anti-submarine warfare frigates, designed and built in Glasgow in Scotland. Despite that, despite Scotland’s longer coastline, and despite the ingenuity displayed in that product, no…”

“Thank you for your guidance, Mr Speaker. The Secretary of State has inadvertently advanced the same argument that he did on 21 July on “Channel 4 News”. Will he clarify that pollution levels under publicly owned Scottish Water are substantially better than those under privately owned English water companies? Will he re…”

“Unbelievably, the Secretary of State has just doubled down, in the House, on the falsehood that he advanced on 21 July on “Channel 4 News” that pollution levels are worse in Scotland than they are in England. I am sure that the Secretary of State does not want to mislead the House. Will he take the opportunity to corre…”

“On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Earlier today at Prime Minister’s questions in relation to the Norwegian Government’s £10 billion investment in the Scottish defence sector, the Prime Minister stated, “I am perplexed that the First Minister of Scotland has not welcomed this deal.” The problem for the Prime Mi…”

“It sounds like you agree with the findings of the Scottish Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee in their report around Ferguson’s year. Are you in accord with their ambitions in respect of Ferguson’s?”

“You sadly never got that order, but you have the block work. How much of the production operations on the block work is agency and how much is core?”

“In relation to not winning the SVRP work that we were just talking about, has that caused any attrition to levels of agency or core staff?”

“How many of each have left since you have been there?”

“How many agency staff are in the yard, both in production and support roles?”

“Just to try to drill down to the genesis of this decision-making process, where do these procurement rules originate from?”

“How long do you think this tier 2 work for BAE will last?”

“Is there any risk that the tier 2 work for BAE will interfere with the delivery of the ship?”