Information between 1st May 2023 - 25th January 2026
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6 Mar 2025, 1:26 p.m. - House of Lords "Labour Party when she was an adviser to Donald Dewar in. And she was " Baroness Hazarika (Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
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6 Mar 2025, 1:20 p.m. - House of Lords "Donald Dewar to support this. And the Parliament, as we have heard, is " Baroness Alexander of Cleveden (Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
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14 Oct 2025, 1:05 p.m. - House of Commons ">> Of British. >> Politics who had studied together and been. >> Great friends. Donald Dewar, who became the. " Christine Jardine MP (Edinburgh West, Liberal Democrat) - View Video - View Transcript |
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22 Oct 2025, 4:06 p.m. - House of Commons ">> An opportunity to. >> Look back to mark both. >> The successes and the shortcomings. And I hope to recall the words of Donald Dewar. " Patricia Ferguson MP (Glasgow West, Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
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22 Oct 2025, 4:13 p.m. - House of Commons ">> Would build stronger systems of local government. Donald Dewar put it best in. >> His first speech. " John Cooper MP (Dumfries and Galloway, Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript |
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22 Oct 2025, 4:16 p.m. - House of Commons ">> I go back to what I said. >> And I quote Donald Dewar, a Scottish Parliament, not an. >> End, a means to a greater ends. And if. " Chris Kane MP (Stirling and Strathallan, Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
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22 Oct 2025, 4:18 p.m. - House of Commons "names in Scottish politics Donald Dewar, Winnie Ewing, Alex Salmond, Nicola Sturgeon, Jack McConnell, Aye " Graham Leadbitter MP (Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey, Scottish National Party) - View Video - View Transcript |
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22 Oct 2025, 6:28 p.m. - House of Commons "friends, Donald Dewar and John Smith. I am incredibly proud that Labour is the party of devolution, " Andrew Bowie MP (West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript |
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22 Oct 2025, 5:04 p.m. - House of Commons "Donald Dewar, said that the Scottish Parliament was first a hope, then a belief, then a promise. Now it is a " Melanie Ward MP (Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy, Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
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22 Oct 2025, 5:04 p.m. - House of Commons "Parliament in 1999, Scotland's then First Minister, the late great Donald Dewar, said that the Scottish " Melanie Ward MP (Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy, Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
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22 Oct 2025, 6:41 p.m. - House of Commons "House about this, but I am not aware of any image of Donald. Dewar in this place. And for a man who made " Jamie Stone MP (Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, Liberal Democrat) - View Video - View Transcript |
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22 Oct 2025, 6:42 p.m. - House of Commons "to correct the record, but there are, in fact, images of Donald Dewar within the parliamentary collection. " Jamie Stone MP (Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, Liberal Democrat) - View Video - View Transcript |
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Devolution in Scotland
151 speeches (27,754 words) Wednesday 22nd October 2025 - Commons Chamber Scotland Office Mentions: 1: David Davis (Con - Goole and Pocklington) I believe that Donald Dewar, in his heroic struggle to bring about devolution, wanted a strong Scottish - Link to Speech 2: Chris Kane (Lab - Stirling and Strathallan) Donald Dewar put it best in his first speech:“A Scottish Parliament. - Link to Speech 3: Chris Kane (Lab - Stirling and Strathallan) Donald Dewar said:“A Scottish Parliament. - Link to Speech 4: Chris Murray (Lab - Edinburgh East and Musselburgh) Donald Dewar said it should be not just an end, but a means to a greater end. - Link to Speech 5: Jamie Stone (LD - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross) That was Donald Dewar. When I said who I was, he said, “Ah! - Link to Speech |
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Speaker’s Statement
19 speeches (5,508 words) Tuesday 14th October 2025 - Commons Chamber Cabinet Office Mentions: 1: Christine Jardine (LD - Edinburgh West) these three great figures of British politics who had studied together and been great friends: Donald Dewar - Link to Speech |
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Devolution (Immigration) (Scotland) Bill
318 speeches (41,920 words) 2nd reading Friday 25th April 2025 - Commons Chamber Scotland Office Mentions: 1: Stephen Gethins (SNP - Arbroath and Broughty Ferry) As Donald Dewar told us, devolution was “a process” not a final destination. - Link to Speech 2: Meg Hillier (LAB - Hackney South and Shoreditch) In 1998, when the Labour Government came in having promised devolution, we saw under Donald Dewar the - Link to Speech |
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Shipyards: Economic Growth
46 speeches (12,213 words) Tuesday 18th March 2025 - Westminster Hall Department for Business and Trade Mentions: 1: Richard Baker (Lab - Glenrothes and Mid Fife) Carnduff and the folk songs of England, from the north-east to the south-west, to the words of Donald Dewar - Link to Speech 2: Sarah Jones (Lab - Croydon West) I thank him for quoting Donald Dewar in the first speech of the Scottish Parliament in 1998. - Link to Speech |
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International Women’s Day
67 speeches (34,127 words) Thursday 6th March 2025 - Lords Chamber Department for Education Mentions: 1: Baroness Alexander of Cleveden (Lab - Life peer) in international consultancy, but in May 1997 I joined the Blair Government to support the late Donald Dewar - Link to Speech 2: Baroness Hazarika (Lab - Life peer) also helped shape a more modern and more equal Scottish Labour Party when she was an adviser to Donald Dewar - Link to Speech |
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Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Disability Assistance) (Consequential Modifications) Order 2024
7 speeches (2,251 words) Tuesday 15th October 2024 - Grand Committee Mentions: 1: Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent (Lab - Life peer) Devolution happened because of the efforts of two of my political heroes, the late John Smith and Donald Dewar - Link to Speech |
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Draft Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Disability Assistance) (Consequential Modifications) Order 2024
9 speeches (2,082 words) Wednesday 9th October 2024 - General Committees Scotland Office Mentions: 1: Ian Murray (Lab - Edinburgh South) Devolution happened because of political giants such as the late John Smith and Donald Dewar who believed - Link to Speech |
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Technology in Public Services
94 speeches (23,848 words) Monday 2nd September 2024 - Commons Chamber Department for Science, Innovation & Technology Mentions: 1: Patricia Ferguson (Lab - Glasgow West) higher level of disability living allowance.But perhaps my most illustrious predecessor is the late Donald Dewar - Link to Speech |
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Adequacy of the Scotland Act 1998
5 speeches (3,889 words) Thursday 18th July 2024 - Commons Chamber Scotland Office Mentions: 1: Kirsty McNeill (LAB - Midlothian) late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II opened the Scottish Parliament and the late, and much-missed, Donald Dewar - Link to Speech |
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Violence Reduction, Policing and Criminal Justice
168 speeches (45,449 words) Wednesday 15th November 2023 - Commons Chamber Ministry of Justice Mentions: 1: Michael Shanks (Lab - Rutherglen and Hamilton West) Donald Dewar spoke of the Scottish Parliament as a means to revitalise“our place in this our United Kingdom - Link to Speech |
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King’s Speech
112 speeches (57,201 words) Wednesday 8th November 2023 - Lords Chamber Ministry of Justice Mentions: 1: Lord Bruce of Bennachie (LD - Life peer) To be fair, Donald Dewar, the shadow secretary and then Secretary of State for Scotland at the time, - Link to Speech |
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Draft United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020 (Services Exclusions) Regulations 2023
11 speeches (2,584 words) Wednesday 25th October 2023 - General Committees Department for Business and Trade Mentions: 1: Rushanara Ali (Lab - Bethnal Green and Bow) Devolution is a process, not an event, as the late, much missed Donald Dewar dubbed it, but it must never - Link to Speech |
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Monday 13th October 25th anniversary of the death of the Right Honourable Donald Dewar 7 signatures (Most recent: 28 Oct 2025)Tabled by: Patricia Ferguson (Labour - Glasgow West) That this House acknowledges the 25th anniversary of the death of the Right Honourable Donald Dewar, Scotland’s first First Minister; notes that Donald was first elected to Parliament in 1966 as the MP for Aberdeen South, representing the area until 1970; further notes that he returned to Westminster in 1978, … |
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Thursday 9th January 2 signatures (Most recent: 14 Jan 2025) Tabled by: Gregor Poynton (Labour - Livingston) That this House recognises the achievements of Broxburn Academy’s debating team in competitions throughout 2024; celebrates that the team were able to win five of the seven competitions which they took part in during the year; notes the national scale of these achievements for the pupils who competed in the … |
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Tuesday 23rd July 2024
Cabinet Office Source Page: Infected Blood Inquiry reports Document: (PDF) Found: expected month.1150 In handwriting, on the face of the submission, the First Minister of Scotland Donald Dewar |
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Friday 15th December 2023
Scotland Office Source Page: Ministerial Quarterly Transparency Return: 2023- 2024 Document: (Excel) Found: John Lamont 2023-09-27 Donald Dewar Sports Club; Drumchapel FC Visit to promote UK Government Grassroots |
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Dec. 20 2024
Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street Source Page: Political Peerages December 2024 - Citations Document: (PDF) Transparency Found: As adviser to Rt Hon Donald Dewar she was key architect of devolution. |
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Thursday 3rd April 2025
Constitution Directorate Source Page: Internal Market Act 2020: position paper Document: Scottish Government Position Paper on the Internal Market Act 2020 (PDF) Found: It is instructive to reflect on what the then Secretary of State ‘for Scotland, Donald Dewar, set out |
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Wednesday 14th August 2024
Learning Directorate Source Page: Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC) school estate survey returns: EIR release Document: EIR 202300382024 - Information released - Annex B (PDF) Found: ELC Standalone Donald Dewar Nursery Glasgow City ELC Yes yes yes 31/07/2023 Visual No None other than |
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Friday 2nd February 2024
Source Page: Building a New Scotland papers: downloadable versions Document: Paper 2: Renewing democracy through independence (PDF) Found: This was famously expressed by Donald Dewar at the opening to the first Scottish Parliament in 1999: |
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Saturday 16th December 2023
Constitution Directorate Source Page: Correspondence in relation to offshore wind: FOI release Document: FOI - 202300344494 - Information release (PDF) Found: In 1966 and 1970 I was inspired by, and campaigned for, Donald Dewar in Aberdeen South. |
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Friday 15th September 2023
External Affairs Directorate Source Page: International visits undertaken by First Ministers: FOI release Document: FOI_202300367985 (PDF) Found: 10 Oct. 1999 13 Oct 1999 Belgium Scotland Week - addressed the Democratic renewal seminar Donald Dewar |
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Thursday 31st August 2023
Source Page: Gender recognition reform: Section 35 Order challenge - petition Document: Gender recognition reform: Section 35 Order challenge - note of argument for the Scottish Ministers (PDF) Found: (See statements by the Secretary of State for Scotland, Rt Hon Donald Dewar MP (HC Deb 12 May 1998 |
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20 Years of the Scottish Parliament
Thursday 27th June 2019 This is a special briefing to mark the 20th anniversary of the Scottish Parliament. This briefing provides an overview of the path to devolution; the work of the Parliament to date, and considers what may be next for the Scottish Parliament. View source webpage Found: In a memorable speech at the opening ceremony , Donald Dewar , the first First Minister , said: “We are |
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Strengthening Committees’ Effectiveness
129 speeches (109,969 words) Thursday 6th November 2025 - Main Chamber Mentions: 1: Whitfield, Martin (Lab - South Scotland) I am sure that we will have lost that by the end of the afternoon.The late Donald Dewar, in response - Link to Speech |
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Land Reform (Scotland) Bill
32 speeches (57,131 words) Wednesday 5th November 2025 - Main Chamber Mentions: 1: Leonard, Richard (Lab - Central Scotland) It is a quarter of a century since the death of Donald Dewar, who warned that Scotland’s land had“too - Link to Speech 2: Gougeon, Mairi (SNP - Angus North and Mearns) They include the late Donald Dewar, the late Winnie Ewing, George Lyon, the late John Farquhar Munro, - Link to Speech |
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Right to Addiction Recovery (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
114 speeches (114,688 words) Thursday 9th October 2025 - Main Chamber Mentions: 1: Ross, Douglas (Con - Highlands and Islands) When Parliament was reconstituted, the late Donald Dewar said that, in this building, the Parliament - Link to Speech |
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United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020 (Consultation and Review)
63 speeches (62,921 words) Thursday 3rd April 2025 - Committee Mentions: 1: Robertson, Angus (SNP - Edinburgh Central) I point again to the evidence from the then Secretary of State for Scotland, Donald Dewar, in a debate - Link to Speech |
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Right to Addiction Recovery (Scotland) Bill: Financial Memorandum
118 speeches (76,644 words) Tuesday 11th March 2025 - Committee Mentions: 1: Ross, Douglas (Con - Highlands and Islands) emergency and it deserves to be treated as such.When the Parliament was reconstituted, the late Donald Dewar - Link to Speech |
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Budget 2025-26
139 speeches (142,253 words) Wednesday 11th December 2024 - Main Chamber Mentions: 1: Roddick, Emma (SNP - Highlands and Islands) When schoolkids take part in the Donald Dewar debating tournament, they get to see clips of parties in - Link to Speech |
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Land Reform (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
272 speeches (157,916 words) Tuesday 3rd December 2024 - Committee Mentions: 1: None in Scotland and a variety of questions around economics, rural development and so on.In 1998, Donald Dewar - Link to Speech |
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Housing Emergency
146 speeches (132,443 words) Tuesday 12th November 2024 - Committee Mentions: 1: None anybody else, and I was in the room when it was abolished, when I was working as an adviser to Donald Dewar - Link to Speech |
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Scottish Elections (Representation and Reform) Bill: Stage 2
112 speeches (104,118 words) Thursday 7th November 2024 - Committee Mentions: 1: Simpson, Graham (Con - Central Scotland) The list is as follows: Malcolm Chisholm, Roseanna Cunningham, Donald Dewar, Margaret Ewing, Sam Galbraith - Link to Speech |
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Motion of Condolence
8 speeches (23,623 words) Wednesday 30th October 2024 - Main Chamber Mentions: 1: Cole-Hamilton, Alex (LD - Edinburgh Western) of him, such was his strength in any arena.He joined forces with the likes of Jim Wallace and Donald Dewar - Link to Speech |
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Scottish Information Commissioner
41 speeches (23,294 words) Tuesday 29th October 2024 - Main Chamber Mentions: 1: MacGregor, Fulton (SNP - Coatbridge and Chryston) The author of the Scottish ministerial code, who was Scotland’s first First Minister, Donald Dewar, made - Link to Speech |
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Challenge Poverty Week
178 speeches (151,889 words) Tuesday 8th October 2024 - Main Chamber Mentions: 1: Brown, Keith (SNP - Clackmannanshire and Dunblane) decision being taken pay any respect to the kind of Parliament that was meant to be established under Donald Dewar - Link to Speech |
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Pre-budget Scrutiny 2025-26
125 speeches (103,122 words) Tuesday 1st October 2024 - Committee Mentions: 1: None Such processes exist within councils.If we are, indeed, talking about honouring what Donald Dewar originally - Link to Speech 2: None That takes us back to Bill Howat’s comment about what Donald Dewar said. - Link to Speech 3: Burgess, Ariane (Green - Highlands and Islands) to be made at the most local level, and that is the direction of travel, in the good words of Donald Dewar - Link to Speech |
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Michael Matheson
111 speeches (104,547 words) Wednesday 29th May 2024 - Main Chamber Mentions: 1: O'Kane, Paul (Lab - West Scotland) also inscribed on the mace at the front of the chamber.On the opening day of this Parliament, Donald Dewar - Link to Speech 2: Boyack, Sarah (Lab - Lothian) recall, but that would be the most democratic way of returning to the ideals that were outlined by Donald Dewar - Link to Speech |
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Personal Statement
3 speeches (9,096 words) Tuesday 7th May 2024 - Main Chamber Mentions: 1: Yousaf, Humza (SNP - Glasgow Pollok) certain that I am not the only one who has reread the historic and remarkable opening speech that Donald Dewar - Link to Speech |
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Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3
54 speeches (56,000 words) Thursday 21st March 2024 - Main Chamber Mentions: 1: Burgess, Ariane (Green - Highlands and Islands) Raptor persecution was described by the late First Minister Donald Dewar, in the early days of the Parliament - Link to Speech |
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Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee Report: “How Devolution is Changing Post-EU”
75 speeches (128,700 words) Tuesday 9th January 2024 - Main Chamber Mentions: 1: Whitfield, Martin (Lab - South Scotland) ones that came before it.It is worth reminding ourselves that engraved on the threshold of the Donald Dewar - Link to Speech |
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Education
93 speeches (131,877 words) Wednesday 13th December 2023 - Main Chamber Mentions: 1: O'Kane, Paul (Lab - West Scotland) In his speech at the opening of the Parliament in 1999, Donald Dewar described the story of Scotland - Link to Speech |
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Situation in the Middle East
37 speeches (111,336 words) Tuesday 21st November 2023 - Main Chamber Mentions: 1: Bibby, Neil (Lab - West Scotland) international partners to change conditions on the ground in order to make a ceasefire a reality.When Donald Dewar - Link to Speech |
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Programme for Government 2023-24 (Opportunity)
99 speeches (105,201 words) Thursday 7th September 2023 - Main Chamber Mentions: 1: Grant, Rhoda (Lab - Highlands and Islands) That shows how much power and wealth are held in so few hands.In his 1998 McEwen lecture, Donald Dewar - Link to Speech |
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Deconcentrating Land Ownership
25 speeches (39,431 words) Thursday 22nd June 2023 - Main Chamber Mentions: 1: Leonard, Richard (Lab - Central Scotland) century to the committed socialist John McEwen and the first generation of MSPs, notably the late Donald Dewar - Link to Speech |
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Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
397 speeches (178,000 words) Wednesday 21st June 2023 - Committee Mentions: 1: None Many years after our first First Minister, Donald Dewar, called the situation a “national disgrace”, - Link to Speech |
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First Minister’s Question Time
65 speeches (47,801 words) Thursday 1st June 2023 - Main Chamber Mentions: 1: Yousaf, Humza (SNP - Glasgow Pollok) I shudder to think what greats such as John Smith and Donald Dewar—those architects of devolution—would - Link to Speech |
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Deposit Return Scheme
53 speeches (34,115 words) Tuesday 30th May 2023 - Main Chamber Mentions: 1: Slater, Lorna (Green - Lothian) Back in the days of Donald Dewar and John Smith, Labour championed devolution as an opportunity to address - Link to Speech |
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Protecting Devolution and the Scottish Parliament
20 speeches (55,997 words) Tuesday 30th May 2023 - Main Chamber Mentions: 1: Cameron, Donald (Con - Highlands and Islands) complain that devolution is under threat when the section at issue was explicitly included by Donald Dewar - Link to Speech 2: Swinney, John (SNP - Perthshire North) listened to contributions from the late Secretary of State for Scotland and our first First Minister, Donald Dewar - Link to Speech 3: Grahame, Christine (SNP - Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale) occupants of the Tory benches and the deserted Liberal Democrat benches, I quote the words of Donald Dewar - Link to Speech |
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Towards a UK Constitutional Convention - Research paper
Wednesday 11th June 2014 Towards a UK Constitutional Convention? May 2012 This paper provides an overview of recent calls to establish a UK wide constitutional convention. The paper also includes a summary of recent constitutional developments and a synopsis of previous... Found: and Governance Reform Act 2010 (Chapter 25) 10 National Library of Scotland, Shirley Williams: Donald Dewar |
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Better Governance for Wales key material statements and debates - Research paper
Wednesday 11th June 2014 Better Governance for Wales – key material: Statements and Debates, June 2005 – August 2005 Abstract This paper draws together the key statements and debates relating to the White Paper ‘Better Governance for Wales’ from June to August 2005. It i... Found: I remind the Secretary of State of the words of the late Donald Dewar, who was the First Minister of |