Results 161–180 of 886 for speaker:Keith Raffan

Scottish Parliament: Expenditure Plans ( 6 Oct 1999)

Keith Raffan: I shall not give way. Enough self-inflicted damage has been suffered by the Tories this week at Blackpool, without my giving way to Mr Davidson to allow even more. I am a kindly man. The Tories are in great pain as a party, and I do not want to talk about them too much. All that I will add concerns Miss Goldie's speech of last week, about inadequate public transport—"inadequate public...

Scottish Parliament: Expenditure Plans ( 6 Oct 1999)

Keith Raffan: Major did that.

Scottish Parliament: Expenditure Plans ( 6 Oct 1999)

Keith Raffan: rose—

Scottish Parliament: Expenditure Plans ( 6 Oct 1999)

Keith Raffan: There was one point of substance from the SNP, which, of course, was about 1993-94 levels of real expenditure. An increase of £7.8 billion would mean a 10p increase in income tax. Obviously we in the coalition do not wish to impose that on the Scottish people, but the SNP does.

Scottish Parliament written answers — Voluntary Sector: Voluntary Sector ( 7 Oct 1999)

Keith Raffan: To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on the charging of voluntary organisations for criminal record checks on their staff.

Scottish Parliament: Memorandum of Understanding and Concordats ( 7 Oct 1999)

Keith Raffan: Alex Neil opened the debate by saying that it was not about independence versus devolution, and then he proceeded to attack the memorandum of understanding and the concordats from an independence—or separatist—perspective. He is entitled to do that, but while his first sentence was measured, he degenerated rapidly into a rant. Sadly, every single member of the Scottish National party has...

Scottish Parliament: Memorandum of Understanding and Concordats ( 7 Oct 1999)

Keith Raffan: I will not give way. I will say what I want to say—I have listened to an awful lot today. Like John and Hugh and other Labour members, I think that it is time we had a measured and sensible perspective on this. The Scottish Liberal Democrats look at the concordats from a devolutionary and federalist point of view. The concordats represent a commonsense approach. We have heard about a...

Scottish Parliament: Memorandum of Understanding and Concordats ( 7 Oct 1999)

Keith Raffan: Competition for large mobile inward investment projects will not be controlled from the south. Adam used words that are not in the concordats. The secretariat will co-ordinate and the council for overseas promotion will oversee, not control.

Scottish Parliament: Memorandum of Understanding and Concordats ( 7 Oct 1999)

Keith Raffan: I will not give way as I have been asked to wind up. It is crucial that different parts of the country should not be played off against each other by inward investors, who are only too well aware that as well as Locate in Scotland and the inward investment arm of the Welsh Development Agency, there are 10 English regional development agencies.

Scottish Parliament: Memorandum of Understanding and Concordats ( 7 Oct 1999)

Keith Raffan: I will not give way. I have said that already. Can I finish? The crucial thing is that such negotiations are overseen so that we do not degenerate into a bidding war. That is in nobody's interest. It is not in the interests of Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales or England, and it is certainly not in the taxpayers' interests.

Scottish Parliament: Memorandum of Understanding and Concordats ( 7 Oct 1999)

Keith Raffan: It is exactly right that the committee for overseas promotion should play a co-ordinating role. For inward investment as for other matters, the concordats represent a commonsense approach.

Scottish Parliament: Voluntary Organisations ( 7 Oct 1999)

Keith Raffan: rose—

Scottish Parliament: Voluntary Organisations ( 7 Oct 1999)

Keith Raffan: I congratulate Mr Wilson on securing this debate and you, Presiding Officer, on agreeing to extend it. The credit for the review group should lie with the members of the voluntary sector in the public gallery; they are the ones who lobbied members of all political parties to obtain the review. I am glad that the Scottish Executive has shown sensitivity to their point of view, but the credit...

Scottish Parliament: Telecommunications (27 Oct 1999)

Keith Raffan: I do not want to repeat the points that have already been made, but I wish to congratulate Nick Johnston on obtaining this members' debate. I also congratulate him on quoting a Liberal Democrat, Phil Willis, who, in the House of Commons, has been in the vanguard of campaigning on the issues—particularly the health issues—related to mobile phones. I want to comment on the House of...

Scottish Parliament: European Structural Funds (28 Oct 1999)

Keith Raffan: We are not stabbing you in the back, but in the front. Your front is so exposed.

Scottish Parliament: European Structural Funds (28 Oct 1999)

Keith Raffan: The Conservatives are neither.

Scottish Parliament: European Structural Funds (28 Oct 1999)

Keith Raffan: On a point of order. Is there a time limit on front-bench speeches today?

Scottish Parliament: European Structural Funds (28 Oct 1999)

Keith Raffan: If he made some sense, it would be worth it.

Scottish Parliament: European Structural Funds (28 Oct 1999)

Keith Raffan: rose—

Scottish Parliament: European Structural Funds (28 Oct 1999)

Keith Raffan: Briefly.


<< < 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 > >>

Create an alert

Advanced search

Find this exact word or phrase

You can also do this from the main search box by putting exact words in quotes: like "cycling" or "hutton report"

By default, we show words related to your search term, like “cycle” and “cycles” in a search for cycling. Putting the word in quotes, like "cycling", will stop this.

Excluding these words

You can also do this from the main search box by putting a minus sign before words you don’t want: like hunting -fox

We also support a bunch of boolean search modifiers, like AND and NEAR, for precise searching.

Date range

to

You can give a start date, an end date, or both to restrict results to a particular date range. A missing end date implies the current date, and a missing start date implies the oldest date we have in the system. Dates can be entered in any format you wish, e.g. 3rd March 2007 or 17/10/1989

Person

Enter a name here to restrict results to contributions only by that person.

Section

Restrict results to a particular parliament or assembly that we cover (e.g. the Scottish Parliament), or a particular type of data within an institution, such as Commons Written Answers.

Column

If you know the actual Hansard column number of the information you are interested in (perhaps you’re looking up a paper reference), you can restrict results to that; you can also use column:123 in the main search box.