Speeches by Doogan.

“The challenges experienced by the businesses of Forth valley are the highest industrial energy prices in the G7, Labour’s farm tax, Labour’s family business tax, Labour’s £26 billion raid on the cost of employing people, Labour’s fiscal drag on everybody’s earnings, the Potemkin support for Grangemouth, the ambivalence…”

“I salute the ambition of the Bill, and determination with which the Secretary of State is articulating that ambition. Does she agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey (Graham Leadbitter) that the way that the Bill has been discussed with Scottish Government partners is the exemplar tha…”

“This is not the Minister’s fault, but it is his responsibility. This issue has gone from Labour to a coalition Government to a Tory Government. It is now back with Labour, and we have a system that is nine years late, has cost £6 billion and has just injured a further 30 of our service personnel. GD is a US prime. Does…”

“I join the Security Minister in acknowledging the memory of Dawn Sturgess, and the sacrifice made by Dawn’s partner Charlie, Detective Sergeant Nick Bailey and the fearless first responders. In the seven years since this attack, an emboldened Putin has increased his aggression across Europe. Can the Minister assure the…”

“Of the manifold carnival of basically lies that was the Vote Leave campaign, becoming £350 million richer a week was one of the principal lies. The sad reality, of course, is that we are £250 million a day worse off as a result of Brexit, which has forced the Chancellor to come after £66 billion of unreconciled revenue…”

“The head of the OBR has taken responsibility and resigned, just like the BBC director general took responsibility for a crisis and resigned. Given the backdrop that the UK is in the throes of a full-on fiscal crisis of the Chancellor’s own making—both materially by removing £66 billion from the economy with no correspo…”

“I am sure the public will be delighted to hear Labour’s never-never promise on energy bills. Unlike the hon. Member, I do not exist on my knees, waiting to get patted on the head by Labour Ministers on the Front Bench. I am off my knees. The consequentials we get in Scotland are a consequence not of largesse by the Lab…”

“I will give way in a second. The SNP did Labour’s job for it, with a Budget proposal that involved a surcharge on banks that would have created the £300 discount for bill payers, just like Labour promised. I am very happy to give way to the hon. Member, if he can tell me when Labour will come good on that promise.”

“I thank the right hon. Member for Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North (Liam Byrne) for a fascinating lecture on amnesia—it was dripping with irony given his last role in government. I wish to congratulate the Chancellor on delivering what is almost certainly her final Budget. There is no conceivable way—not politi…”

“Where would they be?”

“In summary, it is broad, but in many places it is deep as well.”

“Good morning. It is nice to see you both. Scotland does a range of things extraordinarily well, industrially, in its broadest sense. I think there is a temptation to think of big, heavy industry when we talk about industry, but it is broader than that, and it often translates. Recently in the UK, Scotland’s GDP per hea…”

“Dame Nancy, you mentioned a consistency of challenge that you had uncovered in your discussions with industry across the United Kingdom—I may be putting words in your mouth—principal among which, or certainly a major one among which, was access to skills. Did you find that was particularly acute in one part of the Unit…”

“Dave, I was not going to ask this, but you mentioned it, so I will probe it. Some people, perhaps including me, are concerned that Ministers of either Government, who are necessarily generalists and certainly not experts, are relying on expert advice coming from officials within the civil service and within UK and Scot…”

“Just to complete that line of thought about skills, it has long been my belief that industrial careers, and engineering careers in particular, are not being very well communicated to young people, either in school, in their community or in their homes. It seems glaringly obvious to me, and I do not understand why they …”

“Do you want to add to that, Sara?”

“In the context of that ambition, Dave—and linking back to what you said previously about the opportunities and the areas, particularly in energy, where Scotland has had businesses that have been first movers at a very small scale—what would you like to see in a UK industrial strategy that allowed those big, apex primes…”

“The Minister is very well read, so I wonder whether he can identify any point in history when the appeasement of an aggressive, expansionist autocrat has ever worked out well. The population of these isles and the rest of Europe have endured high energy prices for the last three years, have taken Ukrainians into their …”

“I do not understand the mindset of an absent parent who tries to renege on their financial responsibility to support their children. Nor, it seems, does the Child Maintenance Service, because one of the manifold issues with that service is that absent parents renege on payments —starting and stopping payments again and…”

“That sounds like a summary of where we are just now. What I was asking about is how we harness that engineering and academic IP and lock it into a Scottish supply chain. That is the secret, is it not? The UK and Scotland have been creating difficult solutions for generations and then the benefit of it goes offshore—no …”