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European Union Bill

Debate on bills on Tuesday, 7 December 2010, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Hague of Richmond. The answering member was Yvette Cooper.
European Union Bill. Second reading debate. Amendment negatived on division (195 to 330). Main question agreed to. Programme motion relating to proceedings in committee of the whole house agreed on question. Money resolution agreed on question.

About these Parliamentary proceedings

Reference

520 c191-278 

Session

2010-12

Department

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Legislative stage

Second reading

Procedure

Reasoned amendments

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Related items

European Union Bill 2010-12. Explanatory notes also published (Bill 106-EN).
Thursday, 11 November 2010
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The EU Bill and Parliamentary sovereignty. European Scrutiny Committee tenth report with formal minutes and written evidence. In two volumes.
Monday, 6 December 2010
Parliamentary committees
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Proceeding contributions

Speaker | 520 c211 (Link to this contribution) Order. Many Back Benchers wish to contribute to the debate, and a 10-minute limit on speeches has be...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 520 c199-200 (Link to this contribution) I will give way, but I want to make some more progress and get through my speech, as well as taking ...

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Mark Hendrick | 520 c200 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is making it plain in his remarks that the Bill is not aimed at the current...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 520 c200 (Link to this contribution) The Bill is aimed at all Governments, including our own, any future Governments and any combinations...
Douglas Carswell | 520 c200 (Link to this contribution) Will the Foreign Secretary give way?
Denis MacShane | 520 c198 (Link to this contribution) If the right hon. Gentleman has the power of veto, he can stop anything that he does not like. Why d...
Charlie Elphicke | 520 c199 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that the central point of the Bill is that if a future Government ca...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 520 c199 (Link to this contribution) We need a clear framework for referendums because Governments such as the right hon. Gentleman's pro...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 520 c199 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Of course, the Labour party will be asked before future general ...
Chris Bryant | 520 c197 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman knows well that I have long opposed referendums on almost everything. I am ...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 520 c197-8 (Link to this contribution) As I go through the description of what the Bill entails, the hon. Gentleman will understand that it...
Chris Bryant | 520 c197 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Hague of Richmond | 520 c197 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I give way to the hon. Gentleman, one of those who would not hold a referendum on the Lisbon tr...
Charlie Elphicke | 520 c198 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?
Lord Hague of Richmond | 520 c198 (Link to this contribution) I shall try to space out the interventions, but I will come to my hon. Friend. Clause 4 sets out th...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 520 c197 (Link to this contribution) That is a wider debate, and there is a legitimate argument for that. I hope that the Bill becomes pa...
Henry Smith | 520 c197 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Bill, but if it becomes law a future Parliament will be able to repeal it, so ultimate...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 520 c196-7 (Link to this contribution) I remember saying it well. It was a very good speech, and it is recommended reading for all those wh...
Mark Reckless | 520 c196 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary speaks of public alienation, but does he recall saying:"““If you believe in an...
Henry Smith | 520 c195 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?
Lord Hague of Richmond | 520 c195 (Link to this contribution) I am answering my hon. Friend the Member for Hertsmere (Mr Clappison), so I had better complete the ...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 520 c195-6 (Link to this contribution) I had better make some progress, because I will return to all those subjects in the course of my spe...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 520 c195 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady may be in favour of a referendum on that, but that is not what the Bill is about. This...
James Clappison | 520 c195 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend the Member for Wokingham (Mr Redwood) mentioned criminal justice powers, and th...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 520 c195 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises a very important subject—a rather large subject, unfortunately, for those watc...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 520 c194 (Link to this contribution) I will give way two more times and then make some progress, to be fair to the House
Lord Hague of Richmond | 520 c194 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Lady knows, since the Lisbon treaty was ratified it has been built into the treaties of ...
Baroness Hoey | 520 c194 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State has mentioned the Lisbon treaty a number of times, saying that because of it ...
Edward Leigh | 520 c194 (Link to this contribution) But is not the argument between my right hon. Friends precisely the problem? Surely Parliament must ...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 520 c194 (Link to this contribution) I shall come to that point. It requires clarity in the Bill, as far as possible, on the circumstance...
John Redwood | 520 c193-4 (Link to this contribution) Will the Foreign Secretary explain why, when the Government are giving away powers to regulate the C...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 520 c194 (Link to this contribution) That is simply because we are not giving away those powers. The European External Action Service was...
Bernard Jenkin | 520 c192 (Link to this contribution) In our manifesto we promised to amend the European Communities Act 1972, and the coalition agreement...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 520 c193 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend may have worked out that the Bill has exactly the same effect as amending the Act and...
William Cash | 520 c192 (Link to this contribution) Given that we stood united as a party in opposing the Lisbon treaty and supporting a referendum, and...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 520 c192 (Link to this contribution) On the first point, I do not think the coalition Government have done a U-turn, as the Bill implemen...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 520 c192 (Link to this contribution) I am not here to answer for the party policies of other members of the coalition but for the coaliti...
Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 520 c192 (Link to this contribution) How would the Secretary of State describe a party that promised a referendum and then, in order to a...
Yvette Cooper | 520 c205-6 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move an amendment, to leave out from ““That”” to the end of the Question and add:"““this Ho...
Chris Bryant | 520 c204 (Link to this contribution) Will the Foreign Secretary give way?
Lord Hague of Richmond | 520 c204 (Link to this contribution) I think I should try to conclude my speech and give others a chance, but on that point, I give way o...
Chris Bryant | 520 c204 (Link to this contribution) Is the Foreign Secretary satisfied that the process that the French and Italians are using to change...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 520 c205 (Link to this contribution) I am satisfied that it does not affect the rights or powers of the United Kingdom and therefore does...
William Cash | 520 c204 (Link to this contribution) I wish to put on record the fact in the conclusions to the European Scrutiny Committee's report issu...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 520 c204 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I have read the report, of course, and I note the concerns about the references to the common l...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 520 c203-4 (Link to this contribution) No, I must make a bit of progress. The Bill will give Parliament more control over whether the Gove...
Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 520 c207 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend confirm that the use of article 352 of the treaty on the functioning of th...
Yvette Cooper | 520 c208 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. It raises some of the unresolved questions coming out of th...
Charlie Elphicke | 520 c207 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady has set out the many problems of euroland, so why has she committed her party to...
Yvette Cooper | 520 c207 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman needs to recognise that Britain will not grow without sufficient growth in our ex...
Tobias Ellwood | 520 c207 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Lady provide some clarification, because her amendment does not make it clear wh...
Yvette Cooper | 520 c207 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman will know, we have set out our belief that there should be referendums in case...
John Redwood | 520 c206 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady is raising crucial issues. Does her party support the idea of Britain being part...
Yvette Cooper | 520 c207 (Link to this contribution) I think that the Government were right to provide support for Ireland, because the prospects for gro...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 520 c206 (Link to this contribution) The record should also show that the room where I spoke last night was named the Churchill room by c...
Yvette Cooper | 520 c206 (Link to this contribution) If only the Foreign Secretary's willingness to open EU buildings extended to opening a proper debate...
Douglas Carswell | 520 c201 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary has spoken of a referendum lock. Given that this Parliament cannot bind the ne...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 520 c201 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend, perhaps deliberately, understates its importance by overstating the scope for minist...
Graham Stringer | 520 c201 (Link to this contribution) When the right hon. Gentleman was in opposition, I enjoyed his speeches on Europe: they were magnifi...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 520 c201 (Link to this contribution) The public are right, and my arguments are the same as they were on the Lisbon treaty—[Interruption....
Lord Hague of Richmond | 520 c201 (Link to this contribution) Since the right hon. Gentleman has reappeared in the House, I will give way to him.
David Miliband | 520 c202 (Link to this contribution) I, too, very much enjoyed the right hon. Gentleman's speeches when he spoke for the Opposition, and ...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 520 c200 (Link to this contribution) I will in a moment, yes. Like any ministerial decision, it will be open to any member of the public—...
William Cash | 520 c200 (Link to this contribution) Will the Foreign Secretary give way?
Lord Hague of Richmond | 520 c200 (Link to this contribution) I will give way again in a moment, but I shall give way to my hon. Friend the Member for Clacton (Mr...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 520 c203 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman may roll his eyes about that, but it would be an important loss of national...
Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 520 c203 (Link to this contribution) Accession treaties are exempt from the referendum requirement. Will the Foreign Secretary explain ho...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 520 c202 (Link to this contribution) The Bill is about many matters being decided in this place or by the people. The hon. Gentleman's po...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 520 c203 (Link to this contribution) That is a different argument about referendums on accession treaties. Such treaties do not extend th...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 520 c202 (Link to this contribution) That will no doubt have been of some reassurance to my hon. Friend, to whom I give way.
William Cash | 520 c202 (Link to this contribution) I am extremely grateful again to my right hon. Friend. Does he recall that in the evidence that was ...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 520 c202 (Link to this contribution) We welcome the right hon. Gentleman back to the House. It is traditional in these circumstances to s...
Baroness Hoey | 520 c216-7 (Link to this contribution) I would, except that even since the new coalition Government took office, this country has given awa...
Mike Gapes | 520 c218 (Link to this contribution) How does the hon. Gentleman think we can move on from dismal constitutional wrangling if we allow ju...
Tim Farron | 520 c218 (Link to this contribution) That is an honest position at least, which my hon. Friend sets out from a sedentary position. It is ...
Tim Farron | 520 c218 (Link to this contribution) Every act of legislation creates a possibility of further litigation. That is the nature of what we ...
Baroness Hoey | 520 c217 (Link to this contribution) That is my point, and my hon. Friend is absolutely right. We will never get the issue that is big en...
Austin Mitchell | 520 c217 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that this is really closing the stable door after not only the horse has b...
Tim Farron | 520 c217 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Vauxhall (Kate Hoey) and the right hon. Member for Wo...
Tim Farron | 520 c218 (Link to this contribution) I had better be fair and give way to my right hon. Friend the Member for Wokingham (Mr Redwood). The...
John Redwood | 520 c218 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend explain why we had 13 years of a pro-European Government who said we were at the...
Chris Bryant | 520 c222 (Link to this contribution) I do not think Margaret Thatcher had anything to do with the advance of freedom in Spain, Portugal o...
Charlie Elphicke | 520 c222 (Link to this contribution) I thought that the achievements in the countries the hon. Gentleman mentions were those of Margaret ...
Chris Bryant | 520 c221-2 (Link to this contribution) It is a great delight to follow the hon. Member for Westmorland and Lonsdale (Tim Farron), who is a ...
Tim Farron | 520 c219-21 (Link to this contribution) I will not. I am permitted to take only two interventions without losing time and I want to ensure t...
Therese Coffey | 520 c219 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Tim Farron | 520 c218-9 (Link to this contribution) I do not think I am permitted to take more than two interventions. There is such Eurosceptic hostil...
Thomas Docherty | 520 c218 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Tim Farron | 520 c218 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend makes a very good point. The reality is that for 13 years we had a Government w...
Yvette Cooper | 520 c208-9 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is right: those debates are important. We could have had a pre-European Council...
William Cash | 520 c209 (Link to this contribution) I simply make the point that our Committee report is utterly clear on that subject. What the right h...
Yvette Cooper | 520 c209 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that the hon. Gentleman is not picking a fight with me; he is picking a fight with his G...
Chris Bryant | 520 c209 (Link to this contribution) Is not one of the problems with the Bill the fact that it makes the decision on whether to hold a re...
Yvette Cooper | 520 c209 (Link to this contribution) I know that the hon. Gentleman has immense expertise on the details of the legal changes, but he and...
Charlie Elphicke | 520 c210 (Link to this contribution) Speaking as a former lawyer, I find the Bill plain and obvious. If a future Government or bunch of p...
Yvette Cooper | 520 c210 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. The Bill will create a lawyers' paradise because it is so c...
Yvette Cooper | 520 c210-1 (Link to this contribution) That little guy would have some serious questions about which cases could be taken to court, how lon...
John Redwood | 520 c213 (Link to this contribution) It means that when a British Foreign Secretary makes foreign visits, he or she will be kept waiting ...
Bernard Jenkin | 520 c212-3 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that the Foreign Office has fully understood the consequences of encouraging this to ...
John Redwood | 520 c211-2 (Link to this contribution) This Bill is born of a very serious mood in our country. A majority of people in Britain feel that a...
Bernard Jenkin | 520 c215 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Lady forgive me for pointing out that if we had had the referendum on the Maastricht t...
Baroness Hoey | 520 c215 (Link to this contribution) I have to say that there is little in the speech of the right hon. Member for Wokingham (Mr Redwood)...
John Redwood | 520 c213-5 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right, which is why the transfer of power, if not of competence, is suc...
William Cash | 520 c213 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend portrays so accurately the realities that lie behind this Bill, which is about ...
Charlie Elphicke | 520 c216 (Link to this contribution) Although many of us, myself included, would like to head into reverse and one day have that wider qu...
Baroness Hoey | 520 c215-6 (Link to this contribution) I was new into Parliament shortly before the Maastricht treaty and I lost my position as the shadow ...
Bernard Jenkin | 520 c230 (Link to this contribution) Where is the evidence that the European Commission or the European Court of Justice accept that the ...
Stephen Dorrell | 520 c230-1 (Link to this contribution) They may have ambitions, and people within those organisations plainly do have ambitions, but that i...
Mike Gapes | 520 c228-9 (Link to this contribution) I am not so sure that I want our judges making political decisions. Political decisions should be ma...
Stephen Dorrell | 520 c229 (Link to this contribution) I do not always agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Stone (Mr Cash), but when he describes this...
Stephen Dorrell | 520 c229-30 (Link to this contribution) Orange. The right hon. Gentleman is quite right. We regard all those developments as steps in the ri...
David Lidington | 520 c228 (Link to this contribution) May I remind the hon. Gentleman that since the adoption of the proposals in the Wright report, respo...
Mike Gapes | 520 c227 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Stone (Mr Cash) referred to clause 18 as a judicial Trojan horse. I would like t...
Neil Carmichael | 520 c228 (Link to this contribution) Listening to the debate so far, I think that we might need a referendum to decide whether we need a ...
Mike Gapes | 520 c228 (Link to this contribution) The Government are hiding behind the words in the Wright Committee's report. The reality is that if ...
William Cash | 520 c226-7 (Link to this contribution) I agree, and the evidence that we received indicates that that would be something that the courts wo...
William Cash | 520 c225-6 (Link to this contribution) I strongly agree with that sentiment. Indeed, I go further and say that I have always argued for an ...
Bernard Jenkin | 520 c226 (Link to this contribution) Is not the real question, which those on the Government Front Bench must answer, why they will not p...
William Cash | 520 c224-5 (Link to this contribution) People have fought and died over many centuries over the need to affirm parliamentary sovereignty—in...
Thomas Docherty | 520 c225 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman says, this is a mouse of a Bill. Does he agree that what we need is genuine re...
Henry Smith | 520 c223 (Link to this contribution) Was the hon. Gentleman in favour of the referendum on the Welsh Assembly?
Chris Bryant | 520 c223-4 (Link to this contribution) I have not been in favour of referendums at all and I have made this argument for many years. I was ...
Chris Bryant | 520 c222-3 (Link to this contribution) It is true that every piece of legislation can be repealed or sidestepped, and there may be a politi...
Jacob Rees-Mogg | 520 c222 (Link to this contribution) Is it not true of every piece of legislation that it can be repealed later? There is a political cos...
Richard Drax | 520 c234-5 (Link to this contribution) How interesting that the poor old mouse has taken such a lot of stick tonight. Several hon. Members ...
Denis MacShane | 520 c233-4 (Link to this contribution) We have only a short time. My hon. Friend will have time to make his own speech. The Foreign Secret...
Denis MacShane | 520 c232 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to enter into a duologue with my hon. Friend about the euro, although I expect that it...
Kelvin Hopkins | 520 c232 (Link to this contribution) I remind my right hon. Friend that one bit of Euro-realism is that the euro is in a state of collaps...
Denis MacShane | 520 c232 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I shall leave the reply to my old friend, Jim Naughtie. We have also seen again today what ...
Austin Mitchell | 520 c232 (Link to this contribution) As my right hon. Friend is representing his views as those of this side of the House—I do not think ...
Denis MacShane | 520 c232 (Link to this contribution) We have had a menagerie-type debate: Pandora's boxes have been opening, Trojan horses have been jump...
Stephen Dorrell | 520 c231-2 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is entirely right. Like him, I would have much preferred it if the Lisbon treaty had ...
James Clappison | 520 c231 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is making an eloquent speech. May I take him to the question of intergovernment...
Austin Mitchell | 520 c239 (Link to this contribution) That may be true, but the British Government want Turkey in. I am not unfavourable; I am just saying...
Thomas Docherty | 520 c239 (Link to this contribution) I struggle to understand what makes Turkey so different from Romania, Hungary or any other eastern E...
Denis MacShane | 520 c239 (Link to this contribution) On the contrary, I am completely in agreement with my hon. Friend, which is rare in a European debat...
Austin Mitchell | 520 c238 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is exactly right. We have suffered from slower growth, and now we have a 25% devaluat...
Kelvin Hopkins | 520 c237-8 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has omitted to mention—I know that he knows this to be true—that we have had slower g...
Austin Mitchell | 520 c238 (Link to this contribution) My argument is that the Bill does not help us to deal with, or give us a veto over, the problems of ...
Jonathan Reynolds | 520 c238 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is a critic of the European Union, and he is listing many differences that he would l...
Speaker | 520 c235 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman must not place burdens on the Chair that do not exist. Will he desist from...
Austin Mitchell | 520 c236-7 (Link to this contribution) I am enthusiastic about speaking on this Bill, because I would not want the views of Labour Members ...
Richard Drax | 520 c235-6 (Link to this contribution) I apologise. I am happy to retract that statement. To our Government's credit, they have attempted ...
Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park | 520 c239-41 (Link to this contribution) I want to start simply by saying that I love Europe. I have countless brothers and sisters—I have lo...
Anne Main | 520 c241 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making a very powerful speech, and I agree with an awful lot of what he has said. ...
Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park | 520 c241 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely share my hon. Friend's concerns, and I wish to quote—excuse the pronunciation—Charles, ...
Mark Hendrick | 520 c241 (Link to this contribution) I have been quite dismayed by some of the contributions to the debate, from both Government Members ...
Andrew Bridgen | 520 c241 (Link to this contribution) Surely it should be blue meat, not red meat.
Mark Hendrick | 520 c241 (Link to this contribution) Depends how much blood is on it, I think. The modern Conservative party has become a surrogate for ...
Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park | 520 c241 (Link to this contribution) The Conservative party did a lot of damage to itself in the 1997 election, because it lost the trust...
Mark Hendrick | 520 c242 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend, but in my opening remarks I referred to the opinions of some Members on my s...
Mark Hendrick | 520 c242 (Link to this contribution) No, we failed to provide a referendum on the European constitution. As Members know, the constitutio...
Nick de Bois | 520 c242 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman consider that one of the main reasons why the Bill is before the House is th...
Mark Hendrick | 520 c242-4 (Link to this contribution) No, I do not. The party view was that there should have been one had the constitution been put to th...
Laura Sandys | 520 c244 (Link to this contribution) I disagree with most of what the hon. Member for Preston (Mark Hendrick) said. We have today heard a...
Mark Hendrick | 520 c242 (Link to this contribution) Yes, but for the last time, because everybody is taking up my time.
Christopher Pincher | 520 c242 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful. Does the hon. Gentleman think that there should have been a referendum on that consti...
Denis MacShane | 520 c245 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady believe that we should have held a referendum on the Single European Act treaty o...
Speaker | 520 c245 (Link to this contribution) I think we can rule that point of order out of order.
Laura Sandys | 520 c245 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his very kind words. The Lisbon treaty was a real break in tru...
Laura Sandys | 520 c245 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. There are hardly any Opposition Members in the Chamber, but I disagree with those who do...
Laura Sandys | 520 c245 (Link to this contribution) I know that the right hon. Gentleman followed that treaty closely, but I was a touch too young to re...
Denis MacShane | 520 c245 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. The hon. Lady is still very young.
Laura Sandys | 520 c245-6 (Link to this contribution) The distrust over the Lisbon treaty has created a total and utter determination to put the people an...
Kelvin Hopkins | 520 c246-8 (Link to this contribution) I was unable to be in the Chamber for the first part of the debate because I was detained on House b...
James Clappison | 520 c248-50 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Luton North (Kelvin Hopkins). The sentiments th...
Speaker | 520 c254 (Link to this contribution) Before I call the next speaker, may I say that I am trying to get 11 Members in and I presume that t...
Martin Vickers | 520 c254-5 (Link to this contribution) I shall be as brief as possible, Mr Deputy Speaker. You will be pleased to learn that I have already...
James Clappison | 520 c251-2 (Link to this contribution) This is a test for my right hon. and hon. Friends, and I hope that they will listen to the case for ...
Bernard Jenkin | 520 c252-4 (Link to this contribution) As far as the term ““business as usual”” is concerned, I must ruefully reflect that it is business a...
James Clappison | 520 c250-1 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that my hon. Friend is correct. We are deepening and extending the jurisdiction of the E...
Kelvin Hopkins | 520 c251 (Link to this contribution) This reminds me of when, late in the progress of the Freedom of Information Bill, a clause was sudde...
Jacob Rees-Mogg | 520 c255 (Link to this contribution) I, too, will support the Bill at this stage, although I was deeply concerned by what my hon. Friend ...
Bernard Jenkin | 520 c256 (Link to this contribution) The Minister nodded at that point in my speech, and I accepted that as an indication of assent.
Priti Patel | 520 c263-4 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for her intervention. I absolutely agree. We cannot have any grey areas—areas...
Louise Mensch | 520 c263 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making an excellent speech and is raising a number of excellent points. I particul...
Jacob Rees-Mogg | 520 c256-7 (Link to this contribution) I would not wish to anticipate the excitement that we all hold for the Minister's speech on that cru...
Chris Heaton-Harris | 520 c259 (Link to this contribution) I rise as a sinner, because I would like a referendum on Britain's future relationship with our Euro...
Nick de Bois | 520 c257-9 (Link to this contribution) I am privileged to follow my hon. Friend the Member for North East Somerset (Jacob Rees-Mogg), who d...
Chris Heaton-Harris | 520 c260-1 (Link to this contribution) That is why the Bill is very important, and equally why it is dangerous to oversell what the Bill do...
Desmond Swayne | 520 c259 (Link to this contribution) This House voted not to have a referendum on the Lisbon treaty. If those of us who argued with the M...
Priti Patel | 520 c262-3 (Link to this contribution) The significance of the Bill cannot be ignored. I say that following the disgraceful way in which th...
Neil Parish | 520 c261-2 (Link to this contribution) I very much welcome my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary's Bill. Like my hon. Friend the Membe...
Robert Buckland | 520 c264-5 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend the Member for Witham (Priti Patel) said, this Bill comes at a very interesting ti...
David Lidington | 520 c271-2 (Link to this contribution) We debated this matter at great length in Committee in January. A number of the learned academics wh...
Wayne David | 520 c268-9 (Link to this contribution) Before the debate, a number of colleagues told me that the debate would be like the Bill—boring and ...
Dominic Raab | 520 c267-8 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Bill. It needs some work before I will be in a position to support it on Third Reading...
Therese Coffey | 520 c266-7 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to speak on Second Reading, and I will cut to the chase given that I know one...
Andrew Bridgen | 520 c265-6 (Link to this contribution) I am mindful of the time constraints on speeches, Mr Deputy Speaker, so that all hon. Members can pa...
Bernard Jenkin | 520 c271 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is dealing carefully with the points that have been raised, but will he treat serious...
David Lidington | 520 c271 (Link to this contribution) What I would say to my hon. Friend is that to some extent we are repeating the exchanges that we enj...
William Cash | 520 c271 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the very fact that this provision is being included in statute inevit...
David Lidington | 520 c269-71 (Link to this contribution) I think that the brevity of the speech by the Labour spokesman, the hon. Member for Caerphilly (Mr D...
John Redwood | 520 c272 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister tell us whether he can conceive of any circumstances in which this Government woul...
David Lidington | 520 c272 (Link to this contribution) No, I want to deal with the objections and criticisms that have been made to and of the referendum l...
David Lidington | 520 c272 (Link to this contribution) He is now saying that he does not, and I am happy to hear him qualify his earlier remarks. The probl...
David Lidington | 520 c272 (Link to this contribution) The Government have made it clear that we would not assent to a transfer of competence or powers dur...
Speaker | 520 c272 (Link to this contribution) Order. There is far too much noise from the Opposition Benches. I have heard the question; I want to...
David Lidington | 520 c273 (Link to this contribution) Through this Bill we are making the Government more accountable to the British people for what they ...
David Lidington | 520 c273 (Link to this contribution) The second line of criticism was rather more subtle than that presented by the hon. Member for Rhond...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 520 c192 (Link to this contribution) I shall take an intervention from the Opposition before I give way to my hon. Friend. The hon. Membe...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 520 c191-2 (Link to this contribution) That is something for the Opposition to consider and they will have some time to do so before the ne...
Tobias Ellwood | 520 c191 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my right hon. Friend on introducing this important Bill, which will ensure that parti...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 520 c191 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. In the past 25 years, the EU has changed ma...
Speaker | 520 c191 (Link to this contribution) Mr Speaker has selected the amendment in the name of the official Opposition.
Lord Hague of Richmond | 520 c191 (Link to this contribution) I have it in command from Her Majesty the Queen to acquaint the House that Her Majesty, having been ...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 520 c204 (Link to this contribution) I give way to my hon. Friend for the last time.
Bernard Jenkin | 520 c209 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady really does not know what she is talking about. Let me refer her to the Law Lord...
Austin Mitchell | 520 c239 (Link to this contribution) The mountains will labour and a ridiculous mouse has been born. That is certainly true. I am sorry t...
Mark Hendrick | 520 c242 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the hon. Gentleman is very proud, and I am sure that Opposition Members are very prou...
Baroness Hoey | 520 c242 (Link to this contribution) Why do my hon. Friend and other Members keep referring to Euro-realists and Eurosceptics who want to...
Denis MacShane | 520 c208 (Link to this contribution) I am astonished that the Foreign Secretary of all people has thrown away this pre-European Council d...
William Cash | 520 c250 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that this road map contains an almost continuous tsunami of arrangements o...
David Lidington | 520 c256 (Link to this contribution) May I make it clear that I nodded to indicate that I would respond to my hon. Friend the Member for ...
David Lidington | 520 c272 (Link to this contribution) I thought I had made that clear—[Interruption.] The Government—[Interruption.]

Subjects

EU law
European Union
Powers
Referendums
Parliamentary scrutiny
Sovereignty
Treaties
Treaty of Lisbon

Legislation

European Union Bill 2010-12

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