Proceeding contribution from Ian Blackford (Scottish National Party) in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 29 September 2020. It occurred during Debate on bill on United Kingdom Internal Market Bill.
United Kingdom Internal Market Bill
I can hear the Secretary of State shouting, but it is his Bill and I suggest he reads it, because clauses 46 and 47 are very clear: powers over infrastructure, including
“water, electricity, gas, telecommunications, sewerage or other services… railway facilities (including rolling stock), roads or other transport facilities… health, educational, cultural or sports facilities”.
The Secretary of State can sit and tell us that it does not override devolution. Well, the facts are in the Bill. What the Government have done is overridden devolution and, quite frankly, I can tell you, Madam Deputy Speaker, we in Scotland will be having absolutely none of it.
So tonight, just as—[Interruption.] You can chunter and shout all you like, but at the end of the day, the people in Scotland have been watching what has been going on over the past few months, with Scotland being disregarded. The fact is that we won the election in Scotland last December on the right of Scotland to choose its own future. We had no desire to be taken out of the European Union against our will. In England, you can choose to do what you want as far as Brexit is concerned, but we do not—
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- 681 c291
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- 2019-21
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- Devolution Chemicals Environment protection Government assistance EU action International law Northern Ireland Powers Parliamentary scrutiny Scotland Standards Regulation Competition and Markets Authority Office for the Internal Market UK internal trade
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- United Kingdom Internal Market Bill 2019-21
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