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Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Constitutional Law (15 Jan 2013)

Charles Kennedy: Ross, Skye and Lochaber.

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Constitutional Law (15 Jan 2013)

Charles Kennedy: I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman —who, in Better Together terms, is my right hon. Friend—for giving way. What he says about the current governance of Scotland, against the very long referendum backdrop, is undoubtedly true. As he will probably know from the inside, and as I experienced from the outside during the period of Prime Minister Blair’s leadership, in private...

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Constitutional Law (15 Jan 2013)

Charles Kennedy: I am grateful for the opportunity to contribute what I anticipate to be briefly to this debate and in support of the opening Front-Bench speeches, which I think we have all appreciated, to a greater or lesser extent. I begin with a personal, if perhaps philosophical, point: I have never had any difficulty, during my career or personal and private life, with the fundamental distinction —a...

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Constitutional Law (15 Jan 2013)

Charles Kennedy: I am happy to give way to my old sparring partner.

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Constitutional Law (15 Jan 2013)

Charles Kennedy: Over many years, the more I have heard from successive honourable and very good friends, such as those sitting on the SNP Benches right now, the less I have sought to try to explain anything on behalf of political nationalists. That, I think, is altogether a bridge too far. I have had a hard enough time over 30 years trying to explain the Social Democrat party, the alliance, the Liberal...

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Constitutional Law (15 Jan 2013)

Charles Kennedy: I know, Madam Deputy Speaker, that I must not—

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Constitutional Law (15 Jan 2013)

Charles Kennedy: Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. My central point, which is directly relevant to what I have been saying, is that, as has been pointed out, this order is historic, following on as it does from the 1988 Act. Why? It is historic because it transfers and devolves a fundamental, absolute and substantial power to Holyrood and to the Government of the day who have the majority in Holyrood. In so...

Oral Answers to Questions — Business, Innovation and Skills: Student Loans ( 8 Nov 2012)

Charles Kennedy: Well, that eccentric report was produced by the highly respected Higher Education Policy Institute, and one of its arguments is based on the findings of the self-same Institute for Fiscal Studies, even though the Minister has just said that it underestimates the figure. The Government originally assumed 32% non-payment, but the IFS, as quoted in the report he dismisses as an eccentricity,...

Free School Meals (Children Over the Age of 16): European Union (Croatian Accession and Irish Protocol) Bill ( 6 Nov 2012)

Charles Kennedy: First, I apologise to Members on both Front Benches for arriving late to this debate; I was somewhat caught out by the change in timetabling that has taken place, and no disrespect was intended. Like my fellow Celt who spoke before me, I shall not be tempted into matters domestic in terms of Scotland, not least because of my role on behalf of the Liberal Democrats and the Better Together...

Free School Meals (Children Over the Age of 16): European Union (Croatian Accession and Irish Protocol) Bill ( 6 Nov 2012)

Charles Kennedy: I was near enough. I have represented constituencies such as Ross, Skye and Inverness West, or Ross, Cromarty and Skye. Single title constituencies always have me scratching my head. As the hon. Member for Glasgow North East (Mr Bain) has said, the negotiations were successful. The political and social distance travelled in just a couple of decades is immense—that is not a long time, and...

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: EU Staff (30 Oct 2012)

Charles Kennedy: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs pursuant to the oral answer to the right hon. Member for Ross, Skye and Lochaber, of 22 October 2012, Official Report, column 707, how many UK citizens are currently employed by the European Commission (EC); what that figure is as a proportion of all EC employees; what the equivalent figures were in October 2010; and if he...

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: European Council (22 Oct 2012)

Charles Kennedy: On maximising British influence within Europe, in the early days of this Administration the Foreign Secretary gave voice to the aim and ambition of seeing more UK citizens secure positions within the European Commission. Can the Prime Minister give us an update as to how that strategy is working?

Energy and Climate Change: Balance of Competences (12 Jul 2012)

Charles Kennedy: Quality, not quantity.

Energy and Climate Change: Balance of Competences (12 Jul 2012)

Charles Kennedy: rose—

Energy and Climate Change: Balance of Competences (12 Jul 2012)

Charles Kennedy: Together at last. This has been a memorable parliamentary week, and the Foreign Secretary is topping it off with a moment of history. He has made a statement on matters European that can, at one and the same time, be welcomed by the most arch-Eurosceptic as well as by those of us who are quite relaxed about being described as European federalists. I congratulate him on the squaring of that...

House of Lords Reform Bill: [1st Allocated Day] ( 9 Jul 2012)

Charles Kennedy: I will not follow immediately on from the tempting suggestion made by the hon. Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant), because I want to direct the bulk of my remarks to the parliamentary Labour party. I should begin by making my position clear because, as colleagues in my ranks and across the Floor of the House know, I have something of a reputation in this Parliament as a coalition sceptic,...

House of Lords Reform Bill: [1st Allocated Day] ( 9 Jul 2012)

Charles Kennedy: I will give way in a moment, of course, because the hon. Gentleman is a fellow survivor of that era. The votes on Maastricht were a bad experience for the Conservative party because of its rebels. I fear that its rebels on this issue will find that they are stoking up an awful lot of trouble within their own parliamentary ranks later in this Parliament. The other message of that experience...

House of Lords Reform Bill: [1st Allocated Day] ( 9 Jul 2012)

Charles Kennedy: We will see, assuming that we have the parliamentary progress that is required, what happens on that issue. I was a European spokesman for my party at the time of Maastricht and voted in favour of a referendum. Folk of my generation voted for a referendum, while people of David Steel’s generation voted against. If we have a vote on a referendum in the course of our proceedings, which I dare...

Written Answers — Transport: Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency ( 9 Jul 2012)

Charles Kennedy: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what assessment her Department has made of the potential effect of proposed closures of Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency offices on rural areas.

Written Answers — Transport: Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency ( 9 Jul 2012)

Charles Kennedy: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport when she plans to announce the timetable for Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency office closures.


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