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[email protected] 951 7 APRIL 2010 952 Mr. Adam Ingram (East Kilbride, Strathaven and House of Commons Lesmahagow) (Lab): When I was a Northern Ireland Minister, I organised an 11-city tour of the United Wednesday 7 April 2010 States to try to bring jobs and inward investment to Northern Ireland. Nationalists were involved in those The House met at half-past Eleven o’clock visits, but they did not try to sell the message of trying to take Northern Ireland out of the United Kingdom. PRAYERS Might I suggest to my hon. Friend that she should draw that to the attention of those separatist Scottish National party Ministers from the Scottish Parliament, who are [MR.SPEAKER in the Chair] peddling separatism in the United States rather than trying to bring jobs to Scotland? BUSINESS BEFORE QUESTIONS Ann McKechin: Yet again, my right hon. Friend gets BOURNEMOUTH BOROUGH COUNCIL BILL [LORDS] to the heart of the matter. Tartan week should be a Lords amendments considered and agreed to. showcase for increasing our exports to the USA and increasing tourism. Instead, the SNP has characterised MANCHESTER CITY COUNCIL BILL [LORDS] it by its own obsession with independence and its gripes, Lords amendments considered and agreed to.