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His spokesman said he was "very happy to meet with the Scottish secretary".

"This issue is not current government policy," a spokesman for the Scottish secretary said.

Murphy was Scottish secretary before the election.

But, in a separate radio interview, Michael Moore (left), the Scottish secretary, said that it was not clear what this meant.

MPs question the Scottish secretary and his ministerial team.

Why not the Scottish secretary?

Parlabane knew the address from a story he had been sniffing around shortly after Dalgleish became Scottish Secretary.

However, in spite of promises made at the time by the then Scottish Secretary, Malcolm Rifkind, nothing has happened.

Michael Moore, the Scottish secretary, has said cutting child benefit for higher-rate -taxpayers was 'blatantly not a consistent and fair thing to do'.

May 1999 - John Reid becomes Scottish Secretary.