As someone who believes that people in England should have a measure of devolution in response to the devolution that exists in the rest of the country, I would like to ask my right hon. Friend to confirm what actually happened today—that irrespective of whether Sunday trading is a good thing or a bad thing, the majority of English Members of Parliament voted in support of giving our local communities and our local councils the right to decide this matter for themselves, yet they have been denied by MPs from a part of the United Kingdom that it would not have affected at all.
Enterprise Bill [Lords]
Proceeding contribution from
Andrew Percy
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 9 March 2016.
It occurred during Debate on bills
and
Legislative Grand Committee proceedings (HC) on Enterprise Bill [Lords].
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