Scotland
Scottish affairs, devolution, independence
Recent PMQs Questions
View all 143PMQs 2026-04-29
Depending upon the results in the elections next week, this may well be my final PMQs. I suppose that the same is perhaps true for the Prime Minister as well. But before then, does he understand that,...
PMQs 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, ...
Recent Ministerial Questions
View all 1221Fuel Costs Support for Motorists 2026-04-28
If you were a gardener with a Renault Trafic or a bui [3D [K builder with a Ford Ranger in Scotland, you would be paying over £150 just [K to fill up at the pump. Why are we seeing intervention from S...
State Pension Age Changes Compensation 2026-04-27
I ask this question on behalf of the 6,000 WASPI [K women in Strangford. Given that the Department's own 2007 evaluation raised [6D [K raised serious doubts about the effectiveness of letters to pensi...
Cost of Living 2026-04-22
In two weeks, the Welsh people will vote for a go [2D [K government genuinely concerned about child poverty in Wales. In Scotland, t [1D [K the Scottish Government's child payment has helped protect 4...
Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games 2026-04-16
What steps her Department is taking to support th [2D [K the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth games. Having recently visited the Scottish E [1D [K Event Campus in my constituency, which will host the opening...
Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games 2026-04-16
What steps her Department is taking to support th [2D [K the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth games. Having recently visited the Scottish E [1D [K Event Campus in my constituency, which will host the opening...
Cancer Research 2026-04-15
What steps the Government are taking with the Nat [3D [K National Institute for Health and Care Research to support cancer research [K in Scotland?...
Child Poverty 2026-04-15
Obviously I do not agree with the Secretary of St [2D [K State's analysis, but I think we can agree that child poverty and the other [5D [K other challenges that face real people in Scotland should be...
Child Poverty 2026-04-15
Does the Secretary of State agree that the Scotti [6D [K Scottish National party has failed Scotland's children over the past two de [2D [K decades, leaving thousands in poverty, including one in four...
Economic Growth 2026-04-15
The SNP is willing to support the Chinese economy by buying buses from China that raise serious security concerns, but when it comes to supporting defence jobs at the British-owned Rolls-Royce site in...
Economic Growth 2026-04-15
I could not agree more, but change will not come [K from a weak and feeble Labour party that over the last five years has nodde [5D [K nodded through and supported every single one of the SNP's mad-ca...