Liam McArthur: The next item of business is a debate on motion S6M-06779, in the name of Humza Yousaf, on improving care and services for people with chronic pain. I invite members who wish to participate in the debate to press their request-to-speak buttons now or as soon as possible. I call Maree Todd to speak to and move the motion. Minister, you have around 13 minutes.
Division number 1 For: Balfour, Jeremy, Briggs, Miles, Burnett, Alexander, Cameron, Donald, Carlaw, Jackson, Carson, Finlay, Cole-Hamilton, Alex, Dowey, Sharon, Findlay, Russell, Fraser, Murdo, Golden, Maurice, Gosal, Pam, Greene, Jamie, Gulhane, Sandesh, Halcro Johnston, Jamie, Hamilton, Rachael, Hoy, Craig, Kerr, Liam, Kerr, Stephen, Lumsden, Douglas, McArthur, Liam, Mountain, Edward,...
Laura Farris: Implicit in the wording of this motion is a rebuke, and I start by accepting it; errors were made during the tenure of the former Prime Minister. But I take issue with the Opposition in three parts: first, on the suggestion that the mini-Budget is responsible for the economic situation in which we find ourselves; secondly, on the suggestion that my right hon. Friend the Member for South West...
Liam Byrne: It is a pleasure to speak with you in the Chair, Mr Robertson. It is fantastic for the Minister to be able to kick off today with this debate—surely there has never been a Minister as lucky as this one is in taking this Bill through Committee. Here we have an entire Opposition side of the Committee united in wanting to give the Minister the tools to do the job—the job for which he has...
Liam Kerr: ...the Scottish Government what its response is to reports that its claim that Scotland has 25 per cent of Europe’s offshore wind potential lacks evidence and that it knew that there was no basis for it. (S6T-00960)
Leo Docherty: My hon. Friend’s intervention is well noted, and I put on record my thanks for what he does as a mental health champion and for his support of our Ukrainian friends in his constituency. The hon. Member for St Helens South and Whiston (Ms Rimmer) spoke movingly in an appeal for solidarity among the allies on Ukraine. That is what we see on the diplomatic front, on the military front and in...
Liam McArthur: ...members who wish to ask a supplementary question to please press their request-to-speak button or to enter the letters “RTS” in the chat function during the relevant question. Given the demand for supplementaries today, I make the usual plea for questions and answers that are as brief as possible.
Liam Kerr: It is COP27 and, of course, the UK is the representative party. On the point about what everyone is at COP27 for, the minister’s motion notes “the essential contribution to net zero that trees, woods and forests make, tackling the twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss”, but not enough is being done to promote that essential contribution. In April 2021, the Government...
Division number 1 For: Balfour, Jeremy, Briggs, Miles, Burnett, Alexander, Cameron, Donald, Carlaw, Jackson, Carson, Finlay, Dowey, Sharon, Findlay, Russell, Fraser, Murdo, Golden, Maurice, Gosal, Pam, Greene, Jamie, Gulhane, Sandesh, Hamilton, Rachael, Hoy, Craig, Kerr, Liam, Kerr, Stephen, Lumsden, Douglas, McCall, Roz, Mountain, Edward, Mundell, Oliver, Ross, Douglas, Simpson, Graham,...
Division number 3 For: Baillie, Jackie, Baker, Claire, Balfour, Jeremy, Bibby, Neil, Boyack, Sarah, Briggs, Miles, Burnett, Alexander, Cameron, Donald, Carlaw, Jackson, Carson, Finlay, Choudhury, Foysol, Clark, Katy, Cole-Hamilton, Alex, Dowey, Sharon, Duncan-Glancy, Pam, Findlay, Russell, Fraser, Murdo, Golden, Maurice, Gosal, Pam, Greene, Jamie, Gulhane, Sandesh, Hamilton, Rachael, Hoy,...
Liam Byrne: ...richest men in Britain, is doing so little—[Interruption.] Conservative Members do not like the truth, Mr Speaker. Does he understand the despair my constituents feel that he is doing so little for the poorest in Britain by refusing to cancel the £3 billion tax break for non-doms who profit from our country but will not make it their home?
Liam Byrne: On a point of order, Ms Elliott. Can you clarify the order of consideration for the amendments and new clauses in this group?
Liam Byrne: It is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Ms Elliott. When the Minister winds up the debate on the clause, will he say a little more about some of the information that the registrar may be seeking, and in particular whether she is able to solicit information from people seeking to file accounts, and so on, that has been requested by other agencies? All kinds of information is sometimes...
Liam Byrne: ...their ability to conduct the investigations that they have carried out so admirably over the last few years. I hope that the Minister will take up the suggestion of my right hon. Friend the Member for Barking and set out very clearly for us what information will be available. The whole Committee would be interested to hear, perhaps informally, from journalists on whether that information...
Liam Byrne: I am sorry to intervene, but the Minister provokes me. A point to take away is that we are now bedevilled by a real problem in this country: responsibility for policing this area is divided between the Minister, the Treasury, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and the Bank of England. At the moment, as the Foreign Affairs Committee has said repeatedly, there is not an effective...
Liam Byrne: Let me give the Minister a bit of feedback from my time as Chief Secretary to the Treasury. If a spending Minister comes before the Chief Secretary to say: “I’m really sorry, but we have a legal duty to do this”, it is an awful lot easier for them to win the case for the resource that they need than when they do not have the weight of that legal duty on their shoulders. Therefore,...
Liam Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of regional differences in access to multidisciplinary support on Parkinson's care.
Liam McArthur: ...acknowledges what it sees as the tremendous work by Jen Hardy in establishing Cancer Card in Scotland, which is an initiative that provides people with access to vital cancer support services and information regarding their diagnosis in one place; understands that, after her own incurable breast cancer diagnosis in 2017, Jen was struck by the realisation that there was no single place for...
Division number 1 For: Balfour, Jeremy, Briggs, Miles, Burnett, Alexander, Cameron, Donald, Carlaw, Jackson, Carson, Finlay, Dowey, Sharon, Findlay, Russell, Fraser, Murdo, Golden, Maurice, Gosal, Pam, Greene, Jamie, Gulhane, Sandesh, Hamilton, Rachael, Hoy, Craig, Kerr, Liam, Kerr, Stephen, Lumsden, Douglas, McCall, Roz, Mountain, Edward, Mundell, Oliver, Ross, Douglas, Simpson, Graham,...
Liam McArthur: I, too, thank Graham Simpson for allowing Parliament to have this debate and for setting its tone, which I think has been entirely in keeping with the seriousness of the issues. I also thank Neil Bibby for lodging Labour’s amendment, which might give me an opportunity, if time permits, to reference ferries without incurring the wrath of the chair for being off-piste. I also declare an...