Speeches by Doogan.

“Happy new year to you, Mr Speaker—but unfortunately for the haulage industry, 2026 promises to be a year of increasing freight crime from haulage operators up and down these islands. Whether it is Alan Davie of Forfar, Taylor’s of Forfar or McLaughlan’s of Perth, who operate up and down from Scotland to England, when d…”

“8. If she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a specific offence of aggravated theft from commercial vehicles.”

“Ms Stevenson, can we go back to the dynamic between the UK Government and the Scottish Government? When you spoke in response to Mr McAllister you highlighted what is being achieved, or what has been sought to be achieved, through Fife council working alongside PACE in support of affected staff. I am sure that the UK G…”

“I want to explore your last point about the jobs that will be protected at Grangemouth. Is it too early to say whether there is any read across from the jobs that are at threat in Mossmorran? Is it too early to say whether there are opportunities there, given the recentness of the statement and the announcement on Gran…”

“Mr MacGregor, what do your members think when they hear the UK Government talk about the future of North sea oil and gas running out in 10, 20, or 30 years in the same breath as they say there is a ban on new exploration licences? Are they concerned that the UK Government do not actually understand that in order to ope…”

“Can you remind us who makes up the joint taskforce that is being led by Fife council?”

“Mr Greenwood, I thought it was a slip of the tongue when somebody said you were restoring it to a greenfield site rather than a brownfield site. That is obviously hugely expensive, and while green fields are lovely, they do not offer employment, and I do not suppose anybody is going to want to live on top of what was M…”

“Mr Marsh, I want to get back to a comment you made a second ago about how we are achieving decarbonisation by deindustrialisation. It is very apposite to have made that observation. I would expect in your line of work that is what you would do. Should the alarm bells in the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero a…”

“Is anyone listening?”

“I am just digesting that for a minute. There is a concern that the £1 billion that Mossmorran needs is actually backlog maintenance that should have been getting done anyway, but from your answer just there the £1 billion that could be invested in Mossmorran—if there was a business case for that—is to facilitate the wh…”

“I know you are obviously not INEOS and you will not speak for PetroINEOS, but that CBAM issue you are talking about, was that a material consideration for the owners of Grangemouth as they tried to reconcile their operating costs versus their revenue stream? CBAM must have been a central element of that.”

“Not to cast aspersions, Mr Greenwood, but we know to our cost at Mossmorran that the ethylene market is a global market, and you are going to remain in that global market. Just from pure business terms, if you have reduced the global capacity by closing Mossmorran, is that not advantageous to the rest of your output gl…”

“I want to explore more widely, Mr Greenwood, the headwinds that you say you are experiencing from the UK’s policy environment. Is it the highest energy costs of any developed economy? Is it the green levies that are applied to your industry here? Is it the increase that you have had to sustain on your national insuranc…”

“Will the Minister give way?”

“Will the hon. Gentleman give way?”

“Is the right hon. Gentleman as concerned as I am that this is a spreadsheet Budget concerned with little more than the number in the bottom right-hand corner? That is why everything is unravelling so catastrophically. On his BPR point, I have nothing against PLCs, but does he agree further that businesses that are owne…”

“I can only guess that Reform UK is polling quite high in Glasgow East. On his substantive point about child poverty, is the hon. Member relieved that his constituents in Glasgow East are benefiting from the fact that under the SNP, Scotland is the only part of the United Kingdom where child poverty rates are falling?”

“Does the shadow Chancellor bristle like I do and like my constituents in Angus and Perthshire Glens who are engaged in farm businesses and agribusiness more generally when they hear Ministers make a false equivalence in talking about the generous rates of agricultural property relief compared with the wider economy and…”

“The hon. Gentleman was obviously not listening. The increase to the block grant is spread over the entire spending review period—five years—and it does not cover more than half of the cost faced by the Scottish Government as a result of the increase in employers national insurance imposed by the same Chancellor. I am g…”

“The SNP will not support a Second Reading. This Bill derives from a Budget that failed to deliver for Scotland and does nothing to move the dial for the households hammered by the cost of living crisis. Scotland was relying on a step change from this Labour Government—on investment in public services, jobs and industry…”