Labour MSP for Glasgow
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On a point of order, Presiding Officer. I would have abstained.
Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. I welcome you to your place. I also congratulate the member for Aberdeen Central on a fine maiden speech. It was an excellent and erudite tour of the granite city. Whether in the granite city or the sandstone city that I represent, the challenges that our people face are very similar. However, I am afraid that the Government’s motion is merely...
I thank the cabinet secretary for making that point. The model is challenging. Even when our wind turbines are generating, under the integrated UK market, English bill payers heavily subsidise Scottish grid bottlenecks. Around a quarter of Scotland’s entire wind generation capacity was paid to turn off last year, which accounted for more than 90 per cent of total constraint payments across...
I am happy to give way if I can have the time back.
The British Government did no such thing. It introduced new sanctions on Russia; it did not remove them. If the minister would like to look at a serious industrial strategy, he can look at the recent UK Government coup of securing the Vestas nacelle manufacturing plant for Scotland, bringing highly skilled manufacturing jobs back to our shores through British market stability. ...
Will the minister give way?
Presiding Officer, I welcome you to your position. Does the Government agree with Glasgow City Council’s claim that it is simply not possible to establish an official managed fan zone because the council cannot bear the burden of the cost? Given that the impact of football in Glasgow is equivalent to hosting a Commonwealth games every year, could the Government show some...
I, Paul John Sweeney, do swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to His Majesty King Charles, his heirs and successors, according to law. So help me God.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps her Department has taken to compensate people who have been detrimentally affected by the Green Deal Scheme.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what her Department's timescale is for processing appeals from people who claim to have been adversely affected by the Green Deal Scheme.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many appeals her Department has received under the Green Deal Scheme in the last 12 months, and in which constituencies the appellants are based.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Justice on the provision of capacity building programmes for the domestic legal system in Saudi Arabia.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he plans to review the trade relationship with Saudi Arabia as a result of the detention of political detainees and female activists in that country.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assurances he has received from his Saudi Arabian counterpart on the health and well-being of political detainees in that country.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has made representations to his Saudi Arabian counterpart on the publication of proof of life evidence on political detainees being in custody in that country.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to ensure that people over 75 who cannot afford to pay for a TV licence will be able to access democracy and keep informed of current affairs from June 2020.
