Speeches by Doogan.

“Do you want to elaborate on that?”

“That is not what I did.”

“Why is it not track 1?”

“In the UK context, what regions of the United Kingdom could Scotland learn anything from in terms of branding?”

“In terms of global reach and prominence. Where in the UK is showing Scotland how it is done?”

“The Scotland Office is driving Brand Scotland. That will be true for the Department for Business and Trade and the FCDO, subsidiary to that. What other areas of the United Kingdom are outperforming Scotland in branding terms?”

“So is Brand Scotland the UK’s principal brand?”

“The concern many will have around Grangemouth and Project Willow is pace and the gap between the ending of refining operations and something coming to back-fill it. That is not a controversial observation. What is your assessment of that threat? What is your Department in the UK Government, working with the Scottish Go…”

“It is £25 million from the Scottish Government and £200 million from the National Wealth Fund. That £200 million allocation from the National Wealth Fund is interesting. It is supposed to be operationally independent, yet the Prime Minister announced it unilaterally. How does the Government square that circle? The Nati…”

“Of course, energy is reserved to Westminster, not devolved to Holyrood. A final point about Ineos and its behaviour: are you confident that we, and the workers at Grangemouth, can rely on Ineos as an honest broker when it comes to Project Willow? Hopefully, multiple things will come from Project Willow, but it is requi…”

“I do not understand industrially or militarily why the F-35 is the default choice. If the F-35 can be delivered only by the end of the decade, why is Tempest, which is more than capable of being delivered by the mid-2030s, not being considered? That is if we agree with the decision to be part of the nuclear sharing ent…”

“The denial in this statement is truly breathtaking. This UK Government could not come up with a 10-year strategy that would survive first contact with reality on anything, and the statement comes against a backdrop of challenging cuts off the backs of the poorest while we are fitting £10 million new doors to the House …”

“When the Bank of Scotland branch closes later this year in Pitlochry, the town will desperately need a banking hub. That is why I was disappointed that the independent assessor and Link assessed only access to cash, not access to banking. I challenged Link on that, and it said that that is because of the mandate set fo…”

“I welcome the U-turn on the winter fuel payment—of course I do, and lots of my constituents will do likewise—but there is no respite in this spending review for farmers in Scotland, business owners in Scotland, GP surgeries in Scotland, or the disabled in hospices in Scotland. Despite what the Chancellor says, there ha…”

“The Minister is making great play of the way in which his new Government have increased wages across the United Kingdom since the election, but will he concede that 91% of earners and workers in Scotland were already earning more than the living wage level that his Government have recently set?”

“It is a pleasure to be speaking up for Scottish constituents on such an important issue. I see that one of my Conservative colleagues, the hon. Member for Dumfries and Galloway (John Cooper), will be speaking up for his Scottish constituents. Nobody on the Government Benches has turned up to speak for their Scottish co…”

“I am on dangerous territory here—it ill behoves me to defend the party to my extreme right—but does the hon. Gentleman not remember the note that was left by the Labour Chief Secretary to the Treasury in 2010 about all the money being gone?”

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“The shadow Minister takes a casual swipe at the business acumen of Ministers, and I wonder whether I can encourage him to develop that point. When I speak to businesses in Angus and Perthshire Glens about the changes that have been instituted since July last year, they are incredulous that anybody with even a passing k…”

“I cannot help but agree with the hon. Lady. At the very least, that is what the Government should do, and other hon. Members have suggested that too. To be fair, it cannot be easy to form a new Government—it certainly does not look easy. Any new Government must come in, make decisions and quietly think, “Och, I wish we…”