Written Question
Friday 10th December 2021
Asked by:
Mhairi Black (Scottish National Party - Paisley and Renfrewshire South)
Question
to the Scotland Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how much his Department spent on communications in 2020-21.
Answered by Lord Jack of Courance
The number of staff working at the Office to deliver the communications functions in 2020-21 was 13.
Expenditure on communications staffing was £906,177 in 2020-21.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 23 Jun 2021
Oral Answers to Questions
"My hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh East (Tommy Sheppard) successfully pursued a two-year campaign calling on this Government to publish the results of the secret polling that they commissioned, using public funds, to ask people in Scotland how they feel about the Union. Can the Secretary of State confirm …..."Mhairi Black - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 23 Jun 2021
Oral Answers to Questions
"I will move on from that rather bizarre answer. Today, we learned that the UK Government have used emergency covid funds to publicly fund further polls on the Union, in a contract given to close associates of the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Would the Secretary of State say …..."Mhairi Black - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 28 Apr 2021
Oral Answers to Questions
"Particularly as we rebuild after covid, we have an opportunity and a need to make radically different economic choices. After a week of troublesome allegations about the Government and the Prime Minister, it should be no surprise that many in Scotland want to take a different, independent path to that …..."Mhairi Black - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 28 Apr 2021
Oral Answers to Questions
"I did not hear an answer to my question there. The leader of the Scottish Conservatives was asked multiple times on recent media, “What would be the democratic path for Scotland to an independence referendum?” He could not answer the question, so can the Minister tell us what the path …..."Mhairi Black - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Mon 22 Mar 2021
Scottish Independence Referendum
"It is a pleasure to speak in the debate. I know it might be hard for others to believe, but I genuinely try my best to understand where Unionists are coming from in their defence of the UK as a Union. Although I disagree with them more often than not, …..."Mhairi Black - View Speech
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Written Question
Tuesday 9th March 2021
Asked by:
Mhairi Black (Scottish National Party - Paisley and Renfrewshire South)
Question
to the Scotland Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how much the (a) Union Unit and (b) Union Taskforce spent on communications, including staffing costs, in each financial year since 2010-11; and how much is budgeted for that purpose for each of those groups for 2021-22.
Answered by Lord Jack of Courance
The Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland is not responsible for the funding of either a ‘Union Unit’ or ‘Union Taskforce’.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 27 Jan 2021
Oral Answers to Questions
"On this Holocaust Memorial Day, let us remember those who were persecuted and those who are persecuted now, and never forget the horrors that can happen when bigotry goes unchallenged.
I do not remember that same sense of responsibility when Brexit was being bulldozed through during the same pandemic that …..."Mhairi Black - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 27 Jan 2021
Oral Answers to Questions
"I know the Secretary of State is aware that a lot has changed since 2014. Scotland has been taken out of the EU against its will; we have had three Tory Prime Ministers we never voted for; and now, 20 consecutive polls have shown that a majority of people in …..."Mhairi Black - View Speech
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Written Question
Tuesday 15th December 2020
Asked by:
Mhairi Black (Scottish National Party - Paisley and Renfrewshire South)
Question
to the Scotland Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how much (a) his Department, (b) the Union Unit, and (c) the Union Taskforce spent on communications including staffing costs in each financial year since 2010-11; and how much is budgeted for that purpose for each of those groups for 2021-22.
Answered by Lord Jack of Courance
The Office’s annual expenditure is recorded under the ‘Statement of Operating Costs by Operating Segment’ in the Annual Report and Accounts which are publically available online at www.gov.uk/scotland.
The Office does not hold information on budget allocations for 2021/22 at this time.
The Office does not hold figures for the cost of the Union Unit or Union Taskforce.