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Daniel Johnson Lab Chamber

Reform UK Priorities

Will the member give way?

Daniel Johnson Lab Chamber

Reform UK Priorities

Does the member agree with me that, although parties or individuals might not be fascist, they need to think about whether they might be enabling those who absolutely do proclaim and explicitly pursue fascism?

Daniel Johnson Lab Chamber

Reform UK Priorities

Made a request to intervene.

Daniel Johnson Lab Chamber

Reform UK Priorities

I am sorry if my finger offended anyone.This is the 10th anniversary of Jo Cox’s death. Only six members of Parliament have lost their lives while serving in office. Jo Cox’s death in 2016 was at the hands of a right-wing extremist, and Sir David Amess’s death in 2021 was at t...

Daniel Johnson Lab Chamber

Reform UK Priorities

I am afraid that I do not have time for another intervention—

Daniel Johnson Lab Chamber

Reform UK Priorities

If Malcolm Offord does not believe that violence is the answer, why does he use rhetoric about people being of fighting age? What does rhetoric about fighting invoke? It directly and explicitly invokes violence. That intervention was not credible, and Malcolm Offord should thi...

Daniel Johnson Lab Chamber

Reform UK Priorities

I will give way to Malcolm Offord.

Daniel Johnson Lab Chamber

Reform UK Priorities

Were it only about the terminology that Reform is using, it would be one thing, but it is not. Let us look at some of the words used by Reform politicians, both here and in other places: calling for “cold rage”, describing our justice system as being “two tier” and describing ...

Daniel Johnson Lab Chamber

Reform UK Priorities

In a moment.The proposal would also include things that the Government absolutely should not be running, such as the courts service. That is not credible.Likewise, on energy—we need to talk about what a sensible mix looks like, but, if you wrap yourself up in climate denialism...

Daniel Johnson (Edinburgh Southern) (Lab) Lab Chamber

Reform UK Priorities

Malcolm Offord opened the debate by saying that, through its motion, Reform rejects the SNP’s version of mediocrity. What was clear from the rest of his speech was that that is because he has his own very special version of mediocrity.The whole of Reform’s approach to the deba...

Daniel Johnson (Edinburgh Southern) (Lab) Lab Chamber

Portfolio Question Time · School Leavers (Positive Destinations)

On a point of order, Presiding Officer. I am sure that you are aware that employers are not liable for national insurance contributions for apprentices under the age of 25. Could you advise how one might correct the record if they had misled Parliament with regard to that fact?

Daniel Johnson Lab Chamber

Portfolio Question Time · Post-school Skills Pathways

I thank the minister for that answer, particularly the point about industry collaboration, because he knows that that is important to me.However, the overall numbers paint a dark picture. In 2025, Scottish Engineering estimated that we need to grow the engineering workforce by...

Daniel Johnson (Edinburgh Southern) (Lab) Lab Chamber

Portfolio Question Time · Post-school Skills Pathways

To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the provision of post-school skills pathways. (S7O-00118)

Daniel Johnson Lab Chamber

Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill

There is a clear, overarching national interest in securing the steel industry, which I think goes far beyond other considerations. The bill is vital, and it is important that it is expedited so that we have the powers to ensure that the furnaces do not close.I acknowledge man...

Daniel Johnson (Edinburgh Southern) (Lab) Lab Chamber

Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill

I welcome both the Government’s motion and the minister’s comments this afternoon. This is an incredibly important issue and steel is an incredibly important product. Let me make some overarching comments, because I understand the Scottish Government’s reservation regarding th...

Daniel Johnson (Edinburgh Southern) (Lab) Lab Chamber

Non-domestic Rates

I thank the Cabinet Secretary for advance sight of her statement. Although the changes will, no doubt, be welcome, I think that there will be disappointment that more fundamental reform is not being considered. On transparency, businesses want not access to their bills online ...

Daniel Johnson Lab Committee

In terms of my background, there were two components to my career prior to entering the Parliament. I started my career working as a management consultant, primarily focusing on the financial services sector, which gave me an insight into that. For the eight years prior to ent...

Daniel Johnson Lab Committee

Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill

The Government raised a number of things in advance of this meeting. Although there is a broad explanation of the dialogue, some particular points arise. We will have an opportunity to debate the subject this afternoon, but if there are still questions after that, it may be th...

Daniel Johnson Lab Committee

Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill

I think that the letter sets out that the Government has changed its position; it does not really set out why it has done so. It will be useful to hear the minister set that out this afternoon. If no explanation is forthcoming, it might be useful to get a response in writing.

Daniel Johnson Lab Committee

Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill

I agree with everything that Stephen Imrie said. The other element to consider is that aspects of legislation that have not been seen in advance are sometimes spotted as touching on devolved competence—or there is emergency legislation. It is almost as if there is an 80:20 rul...

Daniel Johnson Lab Committee

Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill

The decision as set out makes a lot of sense. However, it is important to put a couple of things on record. First, we do not always get that much notice about LCMs, and there are various reasons for that. It is important that the committee takes the opportunity to scrutinise L...

Daniel Johnson Lab Committee

Deputy Convener

I hope that everyone was impressed with how slick that was.I am pleased to serve on the committee again, as I did in the previous session of the Parliament when I was latterly, albeit briefly, committee convener. I am happy to share any insights from the prior committee’s work...

Daniel Johnson (Edinburgh Southern) (Lab) Lab Committee

In line with my entry in the register of members’ interests, I note that I am a company director and the sole shareholder of a company that has retail interests. It is a non-trading, holding company, which holds intellectual property for retail businesses. I am also a member o...

Daniel Johnson (Edinburgh Southern) (Lab) Lab Chamber

Provisional Outturn 2025-26

Further to Laura Moodie’s question, although we are in the middle of a housing emergency, there was a housing underspend of £98 million, which was 13 per cent of what was budgeted for housing in the 2024-25 budget. That figure equates to more than 1,000 homes, given the number...

Daniel Johnson (Edinburgh Southern) (Lab) Lab Chamber

European Union Referendum (10th Anniversary)

I thank the minister for advance sight of his statement. It contained much that Scottish Labour agrees with, although we might disagree on some of the constitutional conclusions. Indeed, I might go further than the minister and say that I estimate the damage to GDP from Brexit...

Daniel Johnson Lab Chamber

General Question Time · A9 Dualling Programme

The latest tenders are clearly welcome, as they give some clarity about the completion of the A9, albeit some 28 years after it was originally promised. However, the costs require some examination. On a per kilometre basis, the latest sections will come in at around £20 millio...

Daniel Johnson (Edinburgh Southern) (Lab) Lab Chamber

General Question Time · A9 Dualling Programme

To ask the Scottish Government what its current estimates are of the cost and timescale required to complete the remaining sections of the A9 dualling programme that are still to be upgraded. (S7O-00091)

Daniel Johnson Lab Chamber

That is the critical difference. How are we going to make progress? Frankly, the comparison does not stand up to much scrutiny.I move amendment S7M-00367.3, to insert at end:“, and calls on the Scottish Government to take active steps to make bus franchising a reality, by prov...

Daniel Johnson Lab Chamber

I am grateful to the minister for giving way and apologise to Mr Harvie. The cabinet secretary says that the Government will get on with it, yet we have seen very slow progress on bus franchising. Can he address why we have seen so little progress in six years, and say how he ...

Daniel Johnson Lab Chamber

Made a request to intervene.

Daniel Johnson Lab Chamber

Does Mr Hoy not recognise that the deregulation of buses in 1986 was a complete and abject failure? The sort of competition that he is describing is not really possible with these sorts of services. How does he account for that failure, if competition is the guiding principle ...

Daniel Johnson Lab Chamber

We always need to look at the detail and, critically, I agree with Craig Hoy that we need public transport services that provide a service to all people, wherever they live. I disagree with him on the words that are in the Conservative amendment, because I do not believe that ...

Daniel Johnson Lab Chamber

I am happy to give way to Craig Hoy, although I think that I will not agree with him.

Daniel Johnson (Edinburgh Southern) (Lab) Lab Chamber

I am sure that the cabinet secretary is thinking exactly what I am thinking, which is that we should bookmark today’s Official Report, go back in five years’ time and look at Graham Simpson’s contribution to find out what we should have done back then, given his prescience. In...

Daniel Johnson Lab Chamber

That may be true, but why have no such partnerships been brought forward? Why did it take six years for the Government to publish guidelines on bus franchising? Those were published only in March, despite the Transport (Scotland) Bill being agreed to in 2019.

Daniel Johnson Lab Chamber

I invite the cabinet secretary to welcome the fact that it was the Scottish Labour-Lib Dem coalition Government that introduced the bus pass for the over-60s—I am sure that he was just about to do so.

Daniel Johnson (Edinburgh Southern) (Lab) Lab Chamber

Made a request to intervene.

Daniel Johnson Lab Chamber

General Question Time · Pre-hospital Critical Care Service (Edinburgh and East of Scotland)

It has been two years since the Medic One helicopter was grounded. The Scottish trauma audit group has stated that, since then, only 3 per cent of the population of Edinburgh and the south-east of Scotland receive life-saving advance pre-hospital care. The comparable figure fo...

Daniel Johnson (Edinburgh Southern) (Lab) Lab Chamber

General Question Time · Pre-hospital Critical Care Service (Edinburgh and East of Scotland)

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the commissioning of a new pre-hospital critical care service for Edinburgh and the east of Scotland. (S7O-00058)

Daniel Johnson Lab Chamber

Public Trust in Scottish Politics

The minister does not want to accept questions coming from other parts of the chamber. Does he accept that questions are also coming from people who served his party, both in the NEC and in Parliaments? Those people are saying that blocks and obstructions were put in the way o...

Daniel Johnson Lab Chamber

Public Trust in Scottish Politics

Will the minister give way?

Daniel Johnson Lab Chamber

Public Trust in Scottish Politics

Will the member take an intervention?

Daniel Johnson Lab Chamber

Public Trust in Scottish Politics

Will the member give way?

Daniel Johnson (Edinburgh Southern) (Lab) Lab Chamber

Public Trust in Scottish Politics

These are serious matters and there are serious questions. Willie Rennie was absolutely right. I offer this advice to the previous speaker: ad hominem attacks and whataboutery expose the weakness of the SNP’s arguments, if that is all that they can speak to.We have to ask ours...

Daniel Johnson Lab Chamber

Public Trust in Scottish Politics

Will the member give way?

Daniel Johnson Lab Chamber

Public Trust in Scottish Politics

Does Jamie Hepburn not recognise that that is a fundamental misinterpretation of the Nolan principles? Openness and transparency relate to all aspects of the life of an individual in public office, not just the narrow aspects that relate to their ministerial responsibilities. ...

Daniel Johnson (Edinburgh Southern) (Lab) Lab Chamber

Public Trust in Scottish Politics

Will the minister give way?

Daniel Johnson (Edinburgh Southern) (Lab) Lab Chamber

Portfolio Question Time · Public Procurement (Small Businesses, Social Enterprises and Local Supply Chains)

There is broad consensus in the chamber about the need to develop Scotland’s supply chains and to use public procurement to do so. However, especially in the Labour Party, we have felt that, in practice, there has been an overly cautious view, particularly in interpreting the ...

Daniel Johnson Lab Chamber

Public Trust in Scottish Politics

The minister does not want to accept questions coming from other parts of the chamber. Does he accept that questions are also coming from people who served his party, both in the NEC and in Parliaments? Those people are saying that blocks and obstructions were put in the way o...

Daniel Johnson Lab Chamber

Public Trust in Scottish Politics

Will the minister give way?

Daniel Johnson Lab Chamber

Public Trust in Scottish Politics

Will the member take an intervention?

Daniel Johnson Lab Chamber

Public Trust in Scottish Politics

Will the member give way?

Daniel Johnson (Edinburgh Southern) (Lab) Lab Chamber

Public Trust in Scottish Politics

These are serious matters and there are serious questions. Willie Rennie was absolutely right. I offer this advice to the previous speaker: ad hominem attacks and whataboutery expose the weakness of the SNP’s arguments, if that is all that they can speak to.We have to ask ours...

Daniel Johnson Lab Chamber

Public Trust in Scottish Politics

Will the member give way?

Daniel Johnson Lab Chamber

Public Trust in Scottish Politics

Does Jamie Hepburn not recognise that that is a fundamental misinterpretation of the Nolan principles? Openness and transparency relate to all aspects of the life of an individual in public office, not just the narrow aspects that relate to their ministerial responsibilities. ...

Daniel Johnson (Edinburgh Southern) (Lab) Lab Chamber

Public Trust in Scottish Politics

Will the minister give way?

Daniel Johnson (Edinburgh Southern) (Lab) Lab Chamber

Portfolio Question Time · Public Procurement (Small Businesses, Social Enterprises and Local Supply Chains)

There is broad consensus in the chamber about the need to develop Scotland’s supply chains and to use public procurement to do so. However, especially in the Labour Party, we have felt that, in practice, there has been an overly cautious view, particularly in interpreting the ...

Daniel Johnson Lab Chamber

Growing Scotland’s Economy

I will try to seek consensus. Surely a view of growth that is grounded in jobs, wages and opportunity would be a compromise between the position that the member is articulating and those taken by members in other parts of the chamber.

Daniel Johnson Lab Chamber

Growing Scotland’s Economy

I apologise, Mr Hoy; I would like to make a little bit of progress.For all three things, we have the powers here, but we fail to focus on them. On place, if we examine the figures, we see that there are parts of the United Kingdom where gross domestic product per head is growi...

Daniel Johnson Lab Chamber

Growing Scotland’s Economy

The member completely fails to acknowledge the bodged process that the previous UK Government put in place, which is why those licences ended up in the Supreme Court in the first place. If I am coming to the chamber with candour and honesty, I would ask that the member does th...

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Chamber

Meeting of the Parliament 24 June 2026 [Draft]

24 Jun 2026 · S7 · Meeting of the Parliament

Item of business

Reform UK Priorities

Johnson, Daniel Lab Edinburgh Southern Watch on SPTV

Will the member give way?

In the same item of business

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Clare Adamson) SNP

The next item of business is a debate on motion S7M-00446, in the name of Malcolm Offord, on Scotland needs Reform: five years to 2031. I invite members who ...

Malcolm Offord (West Scotland) (Reform) Reform

We have had six weeks of debates on a variety of topics on which the Scottish National Party, as the largest party in the chamber, has set out its vision for...

The Minister for Business and Fair Work (Tom Arthur) SNP

First, I welcome colleagues across the chamber who join me in condemning the violence, xenophobia and racism that were experienced right here in the streets ...

Alex Cole-Hamilton (Edinburgh North Western) (LD) LD

I welcome the minister’s remarks about the Edinburgh attacks. Does he recognise, as do members on these benches, that as well as expressing solidarity with t...

Tom Arthur SNP

I welcome Mr Cole-Hamilton’s remarks and associate myself with them entirely.We want Scotland to be more than just a welcoming country. We want it to be a pl...

Angela Ross (Edinburgh and Lothians East) (Reform) Reform

The minister talks about being a welcoming nation. Does he also recognise that we must be a functioning nation? Can he explain how the SNP intends to accommo...

Tom Arthur SNP

The member may wish to dress it up in moderated tones, but let me call it out for the dog-whistle politics that it is. It is utterly transparent. We see it, ...

Angela Ross Reform

Made a request to intervene.

Tom Arthur SNP

No, thanks.We have the welcome challenge of an ageing population, and the demographic challenge of imbalances in how our population is spread across the coun...

Max Bannerman (Highlands and Islands) (Reform) Reform

Made a request to intervene.

Tom Arthur SNP

No, thank you.The positive impact of migration must be embraced if we are to succeed in our ambitions for this country. The Scottish Government recognises th...

Helen McDade (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Reform) Reform

Will the minister take an intervention?

Tom Arthur SNP

No, thank you.If we get this right, we will build a foundation for the future, locking in investment, jobs and industries that will provide opportunities ove...

Malcolm Offord Reform

In relation to the much-vaunted jobs in Scotland, how does the minister respond to the fact that, among all the turbines around our country, there is not a s...

Tom Arthur SNP

I want Scotland to be able to fully benefit from all the economic opportunities, and that is what this Government is committed to doing. This is a devolved G...

Liam Kerr (North East Scotland) (Con) Con

Will the minister give way?

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Clare Adamson) SNP

You do not have time to take an intervention, minister.

Tom Arthur SNP

My sincere apologies, Liam Kerr.However, this is not the full story. Over and above the build-out of our energy grid, Scotland can secure billions more in in...

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Clare Adamson) SNP

I call Daniel Johnson to speak to and move amendment S7M-00446.1.15:23

Daniel Johnson (Edinburgh Southern) (Lab) Lab

Malcolm Offord opened the debate by saying that, through its motion, Reform rejects the SNP’s version of mediocrity. What was clear from the rest of his spee...

Angela Ross Reform

Will Daniel Johnson give way?

Daniel Johnson Lab

In a moment.The proposal would also include things that the Government absolutely should not be running, such as the courts service. That is not credible.Lik...

Angela Ross Reform

Would you not accept that when we talk about Scottish people, we mean people of all colours and faiths who are in Scotland?

Daniel Johnson Lab

Were it only about the terminology that Reform is using, it would be one thing, but it is not. Let us look at some of the words used by Reform politicians, b...

Malcolm Offord Reform

Will the member give way?

Daniel Johnson Lab

I will give way to Malcolm Offord.

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Clare Adamson) SNP

Before that, I remind everyone that they should be talking through the chair and not directly to individuals or groups.

Malcolm Offord Reform

I say to the member that the only incitement going on is coming from him as he raises his voice in this manner. Interruption. I said on the record last week,...

Daniel Johnson Lab

If Malcolm Offord does not believe that violence is the answer, why does he use rhetoric about people being of fighting age? What does rhetoric about fightin...

Amanda Bland (Central Scotland and Lothians West) (Reform) Reform

Will the member take an intervention?