Scotland
Scottish affairs, devolution, independence
Recent PMQs Questions
View all 142PMQs 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 1207Topical Questions 2026-03-24
The current energy bills crisis is severe, but the government does not seem responsive. The SNP argues that Scotland generates clean, green renewable energy and exports it to the UK. Will they coopera...
Heating Oil Rural Homes 2026-03-24
In Braes villages about 30% of households use alternative heating sources such as heating oil—far above the district, constituency or Scottish nationwide average. The decision to deliver the scheme na...
Heating Oil Rural Homes 2026-03-24
In Aviemore it will be snowing tomorrow—in fact, in quite a lot of north Scotland it will be snowing to a pretty low level. People in those areas are suffering hugely from massive energy prices for el...
Heating Oil Rural Homes 2026-03-24
I welcome the UK Government's support for heating oil customers in my constituency and the follow-up support from the Scottish Government. However, I am slightly baffled that the Scottish Government h...
Heating Oil Rural Homes 2026-03-24
What steps are being taken to support rural homes that use heating oil? In the remote highlands and islands, where mains gas is not available, where we have the highest level of fuel poverty in Britai...
Worker Visas Rural Businesses 2026-03-23
Sheep shearing may not be on the Home Secretary's bucket list, but in another U-turn, following pressure from NFU Scotland, the Government have apparently listened to the farming industry and agreed t...
Topical Questions 2026-03-19
The fishing and coastal growth fund saw an utterly meagre £28 million devolved to Scotland and £304 million allocated to England, even though Scotland represents 60% of fishing capacity in the UK. Des...
Agricultural Industries Funding 2026-03-19
Edinburgh West may not seem like the most rural constituency, but we have several critical agricultural businesses in the seat, including the Royal Highland Centre in Ingliston and a number of busines...
Transparency in Court Proceedings 2026-03-17
The Courts and Tribunals Bill aims to increase transparency but conducting empirical research into jury decisions remains illegal. Researchers rely on mock juries showing links between juror attitudes...
Transparency in Court Proceedings 2026-03-17
What steps he is taking to improve transparency in court proceedings. Conducting empirical research into how real juries make decisions remains illegal in England and Wales; researchers have had to re...