Budget

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland – in the House of Commons at 11:30 am on 10 June 2015.

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Photo of John Stevenson John Stevenson Conservative, Carlisle 11:30, 10 June 2015

I, too, congratulate my right hon. Friend on his superb election victory and his appointment as Secretary of State for Scotland. Does he agree that, with greater fiscal devolution to the Scottish Parliament, places such as Carlisle will assess the potential effects on Carlisle of measures in the Scottish Government’s budgets as well as the national Budget? Does he also agree that the Carlisle principle set out during the election campaign is important not only to the north of England but to the south-west of Scotland?