Scotland
Scottish affairs, devolution, independence
Recent PMQs Questions
View all 33PMQs 2026-02-04
In Paisley and Renfrewshire South, the SNP-led Renfrewshire council has sat on its hands while the owners of the Paisley Centre seek support to transform the town centre. Does the Prime Minister agree...
PMQs 2026-01-28
At a time when the Government are promoting a duty of candour to ensure that all public servants, including Ministers, have a legal duty to act with transparency and frankness, and when the Scottish G...
PMQs 2026-01-28
The Scottish press is full of stories about the plot by Scottish Labour MPs to bring down the Prime Minister. One Scottish Labour MP said he is terrible, another Scottish Labour MP said the handling o...
PMQs 2026-01-28
When the Prime Minister visited Ely in my constituency recently to launch the UK child poverty strategy, I took the opportunity to discuss with him the much-needed Pride in Place funding that we want ...
PMQs 2026-01-21
West Dunbartonshire is set to benefit from record UK Labour Government investment: £60 million of local growth funding has just been announced for the Glasgow city region, to add to the £20 million fo...
PMQs 2026-01-07
According to the Office for National Statistics, 174,000 people under the age of 35 moved abroad in the year ending June 2025. In the highlands, the problem is especially acute: demographic statistics...
PMQs 2025-09-10
After almost two decades of the SNP and 14 years of the Tories, Kirkcaldy High Street has been in a state of decline. That is why the Chancellor was right to prioritise Kirkcaldy for multimillion-poun...
PMQs 2025-09-03
Is he as perplexed as I am at the radio silence from the SNP and the contempt that the SNP continues to show for the defence sector? Does he agree that it is a contempt for jobs and growth and an 18-y...
PMQs 2025-07-16
On 11 June, Alexander Dennis announced that it was planning to stop bus manufacturing in Scotland. My hon. Friend the Member for Falkirk (Euan Stainbank) and I have met the workers, the trade unions, ...
PMQs 2025-06-18
In Scotland, over 10,000 children are stuck in temporary accommodation, including many in my constituency. Too many families face soaring rents, long waiting lists and dwindling options. It is just on...
Recent Ministerial Questions
View all 264Topical Questions 2026-02-12
The 29 bus route in Glasgow is being cut without consultation, and local people have signed my petition so that people in Mansewood and Hillpark are not left potentially cut off. Will the Minister joi...
Topical Questions 2026-02-10
Thank you, Mr Speaker. “Our Governments seem stricken, almost delusional, in the face of onrushing disaster,” and we are seeing arguably the most destructive industrial calamity in our nation's histor...
Small Modular Nuclear Reactors Jobs 2026-02-10
Does the Secretary of State agree that it is time for SNP Government to lift ban and move Scotland into 21st century?...
Small Modular Nuclear Reactors Jobs 2026-02-10
An SMR and new nuclear at Hunterston would support 650 skilled jobs but relocation is happening due to opposition. Does the Secretary of State agree we are losing talent because SNP opposes nuclear?...
Topical Questions 2026-02-09
Girls were raped and abused by grooming gangs in Scotland just as they were in England and Wales, yet girls in Scotland are excluded from the grooming gangs inquiry. Girls, no matter where they are in...
Grooming Gangs 2026-02-05
What steps she is taking to increase prosecution rates for grooming gang perpetrators, given that Baroness Casey’s audit of group-based child sexual exploitation found 'a collective failure to properl...
Hospitality Sector 2026-01-29
What steps he is taking to support hospitality businesses. The Minister referred to there being hospitality businesses in every corner of this country. Unfortunately, the change in business rates does...
Children in Poverty 2026-01-28
In my constituency of North Ayrshire and Arran, healthy life expectancy for women and men is 52.5 years, which is the lowest in Scotland. This highlights increasing health inequalities compared to oth...
Topical Questions 2026-01-28
I am concerned about the widening of the gender pay gap for full-time employees in Scotland from 2% in 2024 to 3.5% in 2025. On the SNP’s watch, women are earning less for the same hours. What can the...
Topical Questions 2026-01-26
Can my right hon. Friend outline what steps he will take to support employability services in Renfrewshire going forward?...