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- Oral Answers to Questions — Culture, Media and Sport: Topical Questions (9 Nov 2009) has video
Pete Wishart: Does the Secretary of State agree that, if we are serious about growing our creative economy and determined that artists and creators are properly rewarded for their work, we must effectively challenge illegal file sharing and end the something-for-nothing culture that exists online? Will he assure me that when he brings forward the digital economy Bill he will consider all necessary measures...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Clause 33 — Time limit for human rights actions against Northern Ireland Ministers etc (4 Nov 2009) has video
Pete Wishart: The hon. Lady was articulating a powerful point before she was interrupted in full flow by the Minister. She is entirely correct that this is all to do with an anomaly. The Somerville case was successful because it identified that anomaly and was able to progress and make a case on the basis of flawed work in respect of the Scotland Act. Like me, the hon. Lady spends many hours in Delegated...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Clause 33 — Time limit for human rights actions against Northern Ireland Ministers etc (4 Nov 2009) has video
Pete Wishart: I support Government new clause 43 and hope that this is the end of a protracted and difficult saga for Scottish Ministers in respect of human rights legislation. The Minister's account of the history of the saga is right: it is based on the House of Lords judgment back in 2007, commonly referred to as the Somerville case, which meant that there was no one-year time bar for human rights...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Clause 33 — Time limit for human rights actions against Northern Ireland Ministers etc (4 Nov 2009) has video
Pete Wishart: I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. In fact, the House passed an order through delegated legislation that allowed the Scottish Parliament, under section 100 of the Scotland Act, competence to legislate on the issue. Following that, the Scottish Parliament enacted emergency legislation, which amended the Scotland Act by imposing a one-year ban. As the Minister has said,...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Clause 33 — Time limit for human rights actions against Northern Ireland Ministers etc (4 Nov 2009) has video
Pete Wishart: Perhaps I have been a little less generous than I should have been. Of course I understand that a protracted process has been necessary to take us to our present position. Nevertheless, this has been going on since devolution started back in 1999. It has been going on for a long, long time, and it is not beyond the realms of possibility to suggest that things might have been done a little...
- Onshore Wind Turbines (Proximity of Habitation): Clause 3 — Management of the civil service (3 Nov 2009) has video
Pete Wishart: The hon. Lady has obviously never looked at the amendment. It seeks to achieve the transfer of the appointment of senior civil servants from London to the home civil service in Edinburgh. It is the start of a process. That is the hon. Lady's position, too. It is what her party agreed in the Calman commission. It is her party's position, as well as the position of the Labour party and of the...
- Onshore Wind Turbines (Proximity of Habitation): Clause 3 — Management of the civil service (3 Nov 2009) has video
Pete Wishart: I have very much enjoyed this particularly illuminating debate. So that we understand the discussion, I should say that the amendment would take the power to appoint senior civil servants in Scotland out of the hands of the Prime Minister and put it into those of the head of the home civil service. It is a very modest measure. It is not pathetic, as the hon. Member for West Bromwich, East...
- Onshore Wind Turbines (Proximity of Habitation): Clause 3 — Management of the civil service (3 Nov 2009) has video
Pete Wishart: I thank the hon. Gentleman for that useful intervention. The prospect of my becoming a London luvvie is probably several degrees removed from reality. The amendment is a modest measure, and I tabled it to try to be helpful. It is about being constructive and making gentle progress towards securing what we believe is a greater ambition for Scotland. I thought that by discussing the agreed...
- Onshore Wind Turbines (Proximity of Habitation): Clause 3 — Management of the civil service (3 Nov 2009) has video
Pete Wishart: I beg to move amendment 48, in page 3, line 7, at end add— '(6) The Minister for the Civil Service shall delegate the appointment and approval of senior civil servants to senior posts in the Scottish Executive to the Head of the Home Civil Service, acting on advice of the Civil Service Commission.'. This is a simple and modest amendment that seeks to transfer the appointment of senior...