Speeches by Crichton.

“When it comes to creating clean jobs and local wealth, there is no better example than the community-owned wind farm sector in my Na h-Eileanan an Iar constituency. I welcome what the Government have done to clean up the grid connection queue, but the community-owned wind farm sector in my constituency is still stalled…”

“I thank the Foreign Secretary for her statement and her stamina. Over the past hour and 40 minutes, no one has regretted the downfall of Nicolás Maduro, but notwithstanding what the Foreign Secretary has said about the tension between practical, progressive realism and political principle, few of us can condone his kid…”

“Bliadhna mhath ùr—happy new year to you, Mr Speaker. Will the Minister update the House on Cameron barracks in Inverness and plans to move some asylum seekers to that town?”

“I thank the Minister for the statement and the work his team and the Scotland Office team did in securing the 500 jobs at Grangemouth. I also pay tribute to the former Business Secretary, my right hon. Friend the Member for Stalybridge and Hyde (Jonathan Reynolds)—now the Chief Whip—for the work he did on this deal and…”

“I do not think I will. Of course, St Andrew was bilingual, or trilingual or quadrilingual—as my hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow West (Patricia Ferguson) pointed out, he is celebrated in Russia and Greece. He appears on the Basque flag, and Basque is the oldest language in Europe. If he and his children were living i…”

“I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Dunfermline and Dollar (Graeme Downie) for securing this debate on St Andrew’s day and for giving us the opportunity to take stock of the issues and challenges facing Scotland. I will not detain the House for long, Madam Deputy Speaker, because you caught me on the hop—I had hoped …”

“I will, if only because the hon. Member displays the best budget cut I have seen this year.”

“The hon. Member mentions a national sovereign wealth fund, which the SNP called for, to be funded from oil revenues, in the ’70s and ’80s—”

“And the ’90s, and maybe until today. The SNP Government had the opportunity to put one in place when they auctioned the ScotWind licenses for offshore wind for £700 million—they would have done it for £70 million, but were given guidance on that. They had the opportunity to either invest that £700 million in a sovereig…”

“Does the hon. Gentleman regret that the Scottish Conservatives propped up the SNP for four of those 18 years?”

“I thank the hon. Member for that intervention, which allows me to highlight that some 95,000 children in Scotland are to be lifted out of poverty by our Chancellor’s Budget, which got rid of the two-child benefit cap. It is not just in terms of education and health that St Andrew’s children are being failed. St Andrew …”

“My hon. Friend may well be right about that clock tower, but she will also know that Carlisle will always be a little bit of Scotland, because it was apparently in Carlisle that the Loch Lomond ballad, with its famous lines “You take the high road, and I’ll take the low road, and I’ll be in Scotland before you”, was wr…”

“That is going into Treasury, but it is not being put into consumer bills?”

“Thanks all for coming in. I have questions on renewable obligations and contracts for difference. First, I think I missed something at the very beginning. Susie, when you mentioned £2.8 billion coming into Treasury, where was that coming from?”

“I think you just described GB Energy there.”

“Adam, do you have any final thoughts on CfDs?”

“The last panel talked about capital costs stalling us and you are telling us supply chain or uncertainty over contracts could stall us.”

“Is that why you put projects into the auction round that do not have planning consent already because you do not know what is going to—”

“Is the supply chain ready for that?”

“Tom, there are problems with it, but would you describe CfD as the gold standard internationally?”