Lord Bruce of Bennachie

My Lords, I very much welcome what the Minister said and I am glad that we have cross-party support for this. I wonder whether I could inject a questi...

My Lords, it is worth recording that Scotland has around 35,000 defence jobs and 11,000 people in the forces. We are building seven warships, and we h...

My Lords, since the establishment of the Scottish Parliament, the proportion of income raised from taxes on Scottish citizens has risen from under 10%...

My Lords, first, I am glad to be able to debate with the Minister. I had a conversation with her when she was first appointed, but this is my first op...

My Lords, it is a privilege to take part in this debate and to hear so many personal experiences, views and opinions from both sides of the divide and...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Howell, for giving us the opportunity to debate this important issue at a crucial time. I also welcome...

First, I congratulate the Minister on her promotion, albeit in somewhat difficult and unexpected circumstances. I will seek to work with her to try to...

To ask His Majesty’s Government how aid priorities will change following the decision to reduce the Official Development Assistance budget to 0.3 per ...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for her introduction of this order. As she says, it is technical and complex but there can be the rub in these...

My Lords, I will briefly speak to Amendment 40, which is in my name. It asks for an impact assessment of this Bill on Scotland, because of the differe...

My Lords, I will speak briefly to Amendments 2 and 36, to which I have added my name. On Amendment 2, I do not need to add much to what has been said,...

My Lords, I rise very briefly to support the amendment in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley, but also to comment on the noble Baroness, Lady L...