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Online Harms White Paper - Motion to Take Note (30 Apr 2019)

Lord Anderson of Ipswich: .... The risk that free speech will be chilled by overregulation is real and acute. However, underregulation too can inhibit freedom of speech, in particular, the freedom of the women and minority groups who, in Parliament—and, I suspect, elsewhere—attract a disproportionate amount of online abuse. It was saddening, even shocking, to read in the White Paper that 67% of women in the UK...

Scottish Parliament: Transport (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1 ( 4 Apr 2019)

Liam Kerr: Mr Lyle seems to be reluctant to accept my invitation, so I will not push the point. It is clear from this afternoon’s debate, the committee’s report and the many submissions that groups have sent to members in advance of the debate, that the bill is laudable. It includes many good principles, including a focus on the environment and support for bus services, which is not an issue that I...

Written Ministerial Statements — Department for International Trade: Trade Advisory Groups ( 3 Apr 2019)

Liam Fox: ...maximizes benefit for the whole of the UK. We recognise that transparency is fundamental to better outcomes. As part of this approach the Government has created the Strategic Trade Advisory Group (STAG) to seek informed views on relevant trade policy matters. The group will be composed of 16 core members from business to trade unions, consumer groups to non-governmental organisations...

Scottish Parliament: Stalking Awareness Week 2019 ( 2 Apr 2019)

Jenny Gilruth: ...a mess.” Therefore, I am glad that last year the Cabinet Secretary for Justice gave a commitment to establishing a victims task force, which will take evidence directly from victims and victims groups on their experiences of the justice system. Last year, my friend Mairi Gougeon MSP began another important part of the reform of stalking legislation. That work focuses on introducing...

Overseas Electors Bill (22 Mar 2019)

Jim McMahon: .... Thank you for allowing this point of order; I appreciate your generosity. Clearly time has run away with us, and we have had three urgent questions. That means we have not moved on to the second group, which would have included a debate on votes at 16. I recognise completely that that is legitimate in terms of how Parliament works, but I would like to place on record the names of members...

Scottish Parliament: Men’s Sheds (21 Mar 2019)

Liam McArthur: ...premises in 2017 that it is already looking at extending its building. As well as creating much-needed extra space, an extension would facilitate better disabled access. Unfortunately, the local group will need to cover the full planning costs in addition to the cost of the work. Such fundraising pressure is relentless for voluntary organisations such as men’s sheds. Thankfully, the...

Scottish Parliament: Twentieth Anniversary (Marking Contribution of Staff) (21 Mar 2019)

Liam McArthur: ...thanks to those staff past and present who helped establish the Parliament in 1999. Christine Grahame might be interested to know that around 80 members of the current parliamentary service staff group joined before the first election in May 1999 and a total of around 120 started at some point during that year. The corporate body values the contribution made by all staff and contractors in...

Scottish Parliament: Land Reform (21 Mar 2019)

Andy Wightman: ...questions about the topic until landed hegemony is eliminated and the people of Scotland own the land of Scotland. I first met the cabinet secretary in the 1990s, when she was a member of the UK Parliament. [ Interruption .] Do not worry. [ Laughter .] We were part of a group that was campaigning against the abandonment of tenant farms by the owner of Blackford estate, which was owned...

Rating and Valuation: Education (20 Mar 2019)

Nick Gibb: ...(James Frith), for Great Grimsby (Melanie Onn), for Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport (Luke Pollard) and for Birmingham, Yardley (Jess Phillips) and the right hon. Members for Birmingham, Hodge Hill (Liam Byrne) and for North Norfolk (Norman Lamb). I am grateful for the support that hon. Members right across the House have given to the regulations. The regulations have also had support from...

Scottish Parliament: Free Bus Travel (Under-25s) (20 Mar 2019)

Liam Kerr: ...consequence of contracting the bus network. In any event, as Mike Rumbles made clear, it is not helpful to the debate or to working towards a better future if proposals to add a whole new user group are introduced without first considering how much that scheme would cost. No one in Labour was prepared to take my intervention and to tell me how much that party thinks it would cost, so I am...

Scottish Parliament: Inflammatory Bowel Disease (20 Mar 2019)

Liam McArthur: I, too, congratulate Pauline McNeill on securing the debate and on her co-chairing, with Clare Adamson, of the cross-party group on inflammatory bowel disease. I am a member of the cross-party group. I do not come with any great hinterland of experience of IBD, but I have found it fascinating. It does what good cross-party groups do: it engages in the political and policy debates, but it also...

Scottish Parliament: Damages (Investment Returns and Periodical Payments) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3 (19 Mar 2019)

Liam McArthur: ...I did not sit through the evidence that the Economy, Energy and Fair Work Committee sat through. However, earlier in the session, the Justice Committee dealt with the Civil Litigation (Expenses and Group Proceedings) (Scotland) Bill, which touched on many of the same issues. We wrestled with the fact that, in relation to what are often very significant payments, individuals could come...

Scottish Parliament: Damages (Investment Returns and Periodical Payments) (Scotland) Bill (19 Mar 2019)

Liam McArthur: ...we are trying to wrestle with. As I observed during the earlier proceedings, I have had some engagement with the issues through the Justice Committee’s work on the Civil Litigation (Expenses and Group Proceedings) (Scotland) Act 2018. During that process, the importance of clarity and transparency, which Gordon Lindhurst and Daniel Johnson have made points on, were at the forefront of...

Scottish Parliament: Scottish Tourism Month 2019 (19 Mar 2019)

Gillian Martin: ...in improving the visitor access to the beach and resurfacing the car park, which has been in a state for as long as I can remember. There is an infrastructure issue there, and I take on board what Liam McArthur said about infrastructure. The roads and tracks that lead to areas of natural beauty are often not managed by the council, so they fall into disrepair, and local community groups...

Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Health Services: Birmingham (15 Mar 2019)

Liam Byrne: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the specifications of the Clinical Commissioning Group plans to improve medical services for homeless citizens in Birmingham; and if he will make a statement.

Scottish Parliament: European Union Withdrawal Negotiations ( 5 Mar 2019)

Patrick Harvie: ...like nonsense being spouted by desperate campaigners who did not think that they had a hope of winning, and who were making promises to which they were confident that they would never be held. When Liam Fox said, “Well, believe me, we’ll have up to 40” trade deals “ready for one second after midnight in March 2019”, we might have thought that that was just laughable. Now it is...

Further Discussions with the European Union under Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union - Motion to Take Note (27 Feb 2019)

Baroness Ludford: My Lords, we have had an unhappy almost three years of the Tory Government supposedly taking back control, restoring parliamentary sovereignty, launching global Britain and respecting the will of the people. They have not achieved any of those things. “What control?”, you might well ask. The Prime Minister is in fact simply muddling through. She trots out the same tired old mantras and...

Scottish Parliament: Men’s Sheds (27 Feb 2019)

Liam McArthur: The minister is aware of the contribution of groups such as Orkney Men’s Shed to tackling not just social isolation, but mental ill health. What discussions has she had with her health colleagues about the possibility of attracting funding from health boards to support local men’s sheds?

Scottish Parliament: Justice (27 Feb 2019)

Kezia Dugdale: ...inconsistency in sentencing is a difficulty that must be dealt with. Equally, we believe that not only those who are given the privilege of sitting on the bench but people who represent interest groups such as victims organisations should be able to have some say ... There is something manifestly wrong in our society if the views of a representative of a victims organisation cannot be...

Department for Work and Pensions (26 Feb 2019)

Neil Gray: It is a pleasure to follow the impassioned, articulate and erudite speech by the right hon. Member for Birmingham, Hodge Hill (Liam Byrne) and to speak from the Front Bench for the SNP. It has been a good debate, and I commend the speeches from the hon. Members for High Peak (Ruth George), for Oldham East and Saddleworth (Debbie Abrahams), for Edinburgh West (Christine Jardine), for Rhondda...


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