European Union (Withdrawal) Bill

Merry Christmas to you, Dame Rosie, and to all hon. and right hon. Members.

Under the pecul...

Before I give way, I have to confess that I am a serial offender when it comes to not necessarily...

Another advantage of new clause 21 is that it would enable the Government to give us a clear expl...

My hon. Friend takes the words out of my mouth. He has spotted that the famous paragraph 49 of th...

I agree that clarity is usually an admirable virtue, but if the thing the Government are trying t...

We should not assume that those watching our proceedings, or reading them in Hansard, entirely tr...

The hon. Gentleman refers to trust in the Government. Does he think our constituents will be reas...

Governments would normally be expected to have information and facts, with evidence being collect...

The hon. Gentleman is making an interesting and relevant point, although it is of course true tha...

Yes. Although we disagree on many things, I think we can agree that if we are going to do this ex...

The hon. Gentleman has been a Member of this place for far longer than I have. We have lived thro...

I have been vexed and exercised for quite a long part of the past 40 years, but that is my proble...

The hon. Gentleman may agree with me that if there are deficiencies in the way EU law has been im...

We are doing our duty by at least trying to comb over these issues now.

I wish to commend t...

My hon. Friend is making an excellent speech. Does he agree that the Government produce assessmen...

Yes. That again gets to this question: are we accidentally bumbling our way through, where nobody...

Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the Brexit Secretary was rather lucky when he appeared before ...

I do agree with that. We should not just skim over this question. These are some of the most prof...

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I will give way one last time, and then I will conclude.

How does the hon. Gentleman imagine that the assessments are going to be any less divisive than t...

That is getting us into this question about experts again and whether there is such a thing as a ...

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I did say I was trying to finish, but my hon. Friend tempts me.

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I wanted to give my hon. Friend an example before he concludes. Last week, the Prime Minister cla...

That is right. That Financial Times analysis was worth sharing and should be shared, but we shoul...

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Members are enjoying new clause 21 so much! I thought it was a simple one.

I only want to help the hon. Gentleman. Does he think it would have been a lot easier had the Exi...

Again, when is an assessment an opinion? In some ways, it diminishes and slightly denigrates the ...

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I give way for the final time.

May I read my hon. Friend the steel sector view? It says:

“it will be a lengthy and potenti...

That is the level of analysis and assessment that deserves to be shared and that was not availabl...

It is a pleasure to participate in the Committee’s consideration of schedule 5 and clause 13, alt...

During last Wednesday’s debate, I specifically asked whether the Bill was first drafted before th...

I think I might be a little kinder to my hon. Friends on the Treasury Bench, because it seems to ...

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I will give way to my right hon. Friend in just a second, because I do not wish to speak for very...

Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that the Henry VIII powers, as he calls them, in the ...

I understand my right hon. Friend’s point. Of course, I am mindful of it—it has been raised on nu...

Clause 13 is confined to the publication and rules of evidence. The schedule itself is about publ...

As I have explained, this is a Henry VIII power, so within the period in which this power is oper...

Give us an example.

The examples could be endless—[Interruption.] Well, if there is an established rule by which, for...

Does the right hon. and learned Gentleman agree that it is not correct to compare the direct appl...

I do actually agree with the hon. Lady and, I am afraid, disagree with my hon. Friend the Member ...

In secret.

I do not wish to be dragged off into some new polemical argument. My hon. Friend says in secret, ...

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I think that I am about to take up much more time than I wanted to. I give way to the hon. Member...

I am extremely grateful to the right hon. and learned Gentleman for allowing me to intervene. I a...

The hon. Lady is right. [Interruption.] Next to me, from a sedentary position, my hon. Friend the...

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As much as I would like to give way to my right hon. Friend, I am actually now going to sit down....

Just for a second.

All right, I will give way.

I want to take up my right hon. and learned Friend on one small point. After agreeing with the ho...

I am afraid that I disagree totally with my right hon. Friend. In the last 40 years, we decided t...

Will the right hon. and learned Gentleman give way?

All right, but this is the last one.

Is there not also another difference, which is that decisions within the European Union are not j...

The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. I do not want to get dragged into revisiting the way in w...

It is a real pleasure to follow the right hon. and learned Member for Beaconsfield (Mr Grieve), w...

Just for clarification, amendment 348 is in the first group of amendments and amendment 349 is in...

Thank you for that clarification, Dame Rosie, although I think that the points that I am making s...

I absolutely agree with the hon. Gentleman that we should be trying to bring people together, rat...

Clearly not. Like hon. Members across the House, including the overwhelming majority of the Oppos...

Again, just for clarification, Members who voted for article 50 are not Brexiteers, but presumabl...

I am not really sure where the hon. Gentleman is trying to go with that argument. My point is tha...

My hon. Friend says a number of extreme Brexiteers in this House want to leave at any cost. Does ...

No, I do not, and it is unfortunate that some people have been characterised in that way, as the ...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Well, while we are talking about extreme voices, I am happy to give way.

There are right hon. and hon. Members who say they want to honour the result of the referendum, b...

The hon. Gentleman is a good example of those who see conspiracy in any corner. I note the articl...

Would the hon. Gentleman let me intervene?

I was hoping the right hon. Gentleman would.

Is the hon. Gentleman not guilty himself, however, of attempting to interpret what the vote was f...

I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his intervention. The rest is indeed down to negotiation, an...

Perhaps the hon. Gentleman can skip that and go to the point that was in that pamphlet, which mad...

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Are we not in a discussion about who interprets what? Is it not therefore time that we asked the ...

We will come to that point in the second half of our debate today, and I will take the opportunit...

On a point of order, Dame Rosie. My understanding of the advice you gave earlier is that amendmen...

No, I think the hon. Gentleman misheard. I actually said that amendment 349 was in the second set...

Thank you, Dame Rosie.

The point I was making was that when Mr Speaker confirmed that our m...

I went through the exact same experience. I visited the Cabinet Office and gave in my mobile phon...

My hon. Friend makes the point very well. Why all the secrecy for what was available in that room...

The education section starts by saying, “We will not touch on the effects on Horizon 2020 or Eras...

We are probably straying on to dangerous territory if we start talking about the content, such ar...

Is the hon. Gentleman confused, as I am, about the reasons why the Government seem to have this p...

The worry is that either they are not conducting them or they are conducting them and not sharing...

Could not there be another, far more simple, explanation—that the Secretary of State is heading a...

That is probably the sort of phrase that the Secretary of State might use on some occasions.

I want to speak briefly on new clause 21 and amendment 348. I also want to make some points in re...

I agree with my hon. Friend’s description, actually. Does he agree that a lot of these things are...

I am extremely grateful for the humility being shown by my distinguished right hon. and learned F...

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Of course I give way to the hon. Lady, whose constituency I encircle.

I thank the hon. Gentleman, my constituency neighbour, for giving way. Has he ever tried to put a...

In North East Somerset, we do not have ordinary people. We have only exceptional, brilliant and t...

I apologise for the use of the term “ordinary people”. I accept that it is possibly not a very go...

I am very grateful to the hon. Lady for that. I think the point is important, and we should try t...

Expensive help.

It is not expensive help. That is quite wrong. As the hon. and learned Lady knows, the £1 billion...

I do not know whether the hon. Gentleman has been in to read the documents, but by no stretch of ...

I did go to see the documents, as a member of the Exiting the European Union Committee. I was luc...

The hon. Gentleman is extremely generous to give way again to me. I asked the Secretary of State ...

I do not agree with the hon. Lady. I think the Under-Secretary of State for Exiting the European ...

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for being so generous. I brought up the issue with the Secret...

The hon. Gentleman is moving away from the Humble Address, which asked for impact assessments, no...

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Let me be bipartisan and take our friend from Scotland first.

In fairness to my hon. Friend the Member for North East Fife (Stephen Gethins) on the SNP Front B...

Yes, but I was saying that the terms of the question asked by the hon. Member for North East Fife...

We are rehearsing matters that I thought had been thoroughly covered, but the reality is that had...

My right hon. Friend has put the matter so well that I can move on to my final point.

I wis...

We have already got one.

But not for the United Kingdom as a whole—no, not yet. I will wait for the SNP to put up a candid...

Would my hon. Friend concede that some of us are always in opposition whichever party is in gover...

My hon. Friend puts the point beautifully. That is actually the historical and traditional job of...

My hon. Friend makes a perfectly reasonable point, and there is an argument that this House shoul...

It is always right that we should question such powers. That issue was about meeting our internat...

The hon. Gentleman is of course right about the ability of Members to introduce a Bill, but glori...

The likelihood is minimal because it would be fairly chaotic if we had 650 Bills coming through e...

Will the hon. Gentleman name one that has got through via that procedure during the last Session?...

In the last Parliament, we got through a major reduction in prejudice against people suffering fr...

Does my hon. Friend agree that the Autism Act 2009 was such an example, as was the legislation cr...

My right hon. and learned Friend is absolutely right. Such Bills do come through—[Interruption.] ...

I have the results of today’s deferred Divisions—I know you have all been anxiously awaiting them...

It is always a little daunting to follow the hon. Member for North East Somerset (Mr Rees-Mogg). ...

My hon. and learned Friend makes a powerful point. Will she put it to the Minister that the Secre...

Indeed. And more recently than 2016, following up on that, evidence has been given to two Select ...

The hon. and learned Lady is making a very interesting speech. Retained rights for EU citizens pe...

The point I am seeking to make is that having vigorously resisted my amendment, which I tabled fo...

indicated dissent.

The Solicitor General is raising his eyebrows at me, but if he looks carefully at schedule 5, as ...

In a former career, I would take cases and seek direction from the courts on what they believed t...

I recognise it, because in my former career I appeared regularly in the Supreme Court of the UK a...

indicated assent.

I am very grateful to the right hon. and learned Member for Beaconsfield for agreeing with me on ...

Given the spirit in which the hon. Member for Nottingham East (Mr Leslie) moved new clause 21, I ...

My point is that, having rightly conceded that it is a question of law, the Government need to ad...

I was about to say to the hon. and learned Lady that, tempted though I am to embark on a long deb...

I rather assumed that, given the other extensive powers the Government are taking, we would have ...

As I have said, this is a power of publication. It is important not only that we formally delete ...

Will the Solicitor General take a moment to explain the status of the long preambles to EU regula...

Like any other part of a document, it will, of course, have effect. A preamble is an important st...

The hon. and learned Gentleman, like everyone in the House, will be well aware that our legislati...

To be fair to our judges, they already have the task of interpreting and applying EU regulations ...

My hon. and learned Friend is giving a very helpful explanation of the powers in paragraph 4. He ...

My right hon. and learned Friend is not just a lawyer but an historian. He will know that a previ...

That was not just my concern. It was a concern expressed by the Law Society of Scotland which, as...

I take the hon. and learned Lady’s point with the utmost seriousness, as I hope I always do, but,...

I am grateful to the Solicitor General for addressing new clause 21 in that way, which will be us...

I think that there are many consequences on which the hon. Gentleman and I could dwell on another...

I am grateful to the Solicitor General for his generosity in giving way again. As he knows, we do...

I think it must follow that when there is no Executive functioning in Northern Ireland and the No...

I rise to speak in support of amendment 348 and new clause 21.

Today, I took the short and ...

Anyone could have written it.

I agree with my hon. Friend.

The sector has said that World Trade Organisation rules and cu...

Will the hon. Lady give way?

No, I am going to carry on, because others need to get in.

Turning to the steel sector, I f...

The Government say that they have carried out significant impact assessments covering the Welsh e...

I took that intervention from my hon. Friend because she is a Welsh colleague, and she and her co...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Bridgend (Mrs Moon), who has spoken so well today,...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Let me just develop my argument first, if I may.

It is therefore a curious affair that we s...

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way. He seems to be arguing not for or against the...

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman because, as a historian, I think he raises an interesting que...

I rise to speak in favour of amendment 348 and new clause 21. The vote to leave the European Unio...

I am following my hon. Friend carefully. Does he agree that my constituents’ relatives from the C...

I have listened closely to my hon. Friend, but we will need to wait until the immigration Bill is...

I draw my hon. Friend’s attention to the National Audit Office report, published yesterday, on th...

My hon. Friend corroborates what I have been trying to outline.

Rather than taking back con...

Does the hon. Gentleman accept that a large company such as Mars is able to import cocoa, chocola...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for that, but I would point out to him that we already have trade agre...

Does the hon. Gentleman share my concern that Mars is clearly able to make an assessment of the i...

I thank the right hon. Gentleman for making that intervention, because if Mars can do it, I am su...

I thank the House for going into much more detail than we perhaps initially expected on these cla...

I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.

With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:

Government amendment 399.

A...

We find ourselves in the last part of day eight of the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill Committee...

Does the hon. Gentleman agree that when he and I tabled new clause 54, we did so consciously tryi...

That is an excellent suggestion. We could almost add new clause 54 to the copy-and-paste process,...

I know that Ministers are already aware of REACH—the registration, evaluation, authorisation and ...

I entirely agree and my hon. Friend is completely correct to stand up for her constituents and lo...

My hon. Friend is proposing a whole series of amendments that would certainly improve the current...

That is indeed the simple solution. I was building towards that crescendo, but there is always so...

It is indeed. I do not know whether the hon. Gentleman has visited Dover port. If he has, he will...

Yes, and we all presumed that some of the £3.7 billion of preparations money would be spent on ta...

Does my hon. Friend agree that the Government are failing to understand the deep complexity of su...

We will have to see what happens there. I think that about 2.5 million lorries a year go through ...

The Brexit Select Committee actually visited Dover and we then met a representative of the port o...

I know that the Minister will answer all these questions as soon as he sums up this debate. He ha...

May I turn my hon. Friend’s attention to Ireland? Freight traffic to Dublin has enjoyed a growth ...

No, and preparations would be needed for all sorts of other checks, including sanitary and phytos...

Does the hon. Gentleman agree with my view that most people in this country do not understand the...

The right hon. Lady and my hon. Friend the Member for Wakefield (Mary Creagh) are right to focus ...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend, and indeed to the right hon. Member for Broxtowe (Anna Soubry), ...

We must not take these arrangements for granted. Many of our constituents have taken them for gra...

Great Grimsby is well known for its fish and fish processing. We have discussed extensively some ...

The delays will probably be of great concern to the companies involved in those shipments, becaus...

I wonder why the hon. Gentleman is concerned for companies on that particular point, when

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The hon. Gentleman will know that there are concerns. He said Norway was a “vassal state”—I think...

On that point, the Norwegian border is very interesting. Norway is in Schengen, so it does border...

The hon. Lady deals with the point incredibly well.

If we end frictionless trade or introdu...

The long list of checks that the hon. Gentleman read out that would be applicable are, as he know...

I agree that we want to have a tariff-free relationship with our European neighbours—that much we...

I want to take my hon. Friend back to what he was saying about the border between Northern Irelan...

Absolutely. If we can maintain full alignment, which was the phrase used in that agreement, that ...

May I bring the hon. Gentleman back to another border that he referred to, namely that between No...

I have not seen that information, but there are all sorts of bits of infrastructure involved. The...

Before the hon. Gentleman whips himself up into too much of a state of pessimism, may I gently re...

I will come to the US situation in a moment. I have to tell the hon. Gentleman that the inward in...

Will my hon. Friend give way?

I will give way in a moment. Our justification for leaving the customs union has to be more than ...

My hon. Friend is being generous in giving way again. This morning, the Secretary of State furthe...

It is possible that our civil service will eventually gear up to do these things, and I would be ...

The hon. Gentleman has highlighted this contradiction, so will he explain why the hon. Member for...

I am sure my hon. Friend the Member for Brent North (Barry Gardiner) can speak for himself; he ha...

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I may give way, because we have been talking about the USA, and some people have speculated about...

Yes, on that point.

I give way to the right hon. Lady.

Given the hon. Gentleman’s experience, has he, like me, talked to people about the detail of the ...

Absolutely. The right hon. Lady has taken the words out of my mouth. I would love to see the Gove...

I pay tribute to my hon. Friend for his work in drafting and moving all these new clauses. Does h...

We are due imminently to see the immigration Bill—the Minister will tell us exactly when it will ...

Before my hon. Friend moves away from India, may I draw his attention to the Scotch whisky indust...

Absolutely. My hon. Friend makes his point well. The idea is that we should turn a blind eye to t...

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I will not give way; other Members want to speak.

The Secretary of State for International ...

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I want to conclude my remarks because others want to speak. I simply want to make a final point a...

It was a pleasure to listen to the speech of the hon. Member for Nottingham East (Mr Leslie). It ...

A bit like yours.

Well actually, oddly enough, I intend, as previously in Committee, to attend to one of the amendm...

I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for giving way and for the very careful way in which he is ...

I am grateful to my right hon. and learned Friend, to the many right hon. and hon. Friends who si...

If the European Communities Act 1972 is abolished on 29 March 2019 and that is the legal basis fo...

That is a very interesting question, to which we will know the answer when we have seen the text ...

Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?

I will, but it will be for the last time, because I want to bring my remarks to a close. I do not...

We have heard many times from Conservative Members that the date of 29 March 2019 cannot be moved...

I am surprised by the hon. Lady. I have known her a very long time and I know she is extremely as...

May I trouble my right hon. Friend?

My hon. Friend is so important in these proceedings that I will give way to him, but then I reall...

I do apologise. I did not want to trouble my right hon. Friend, but the two-year timeframe under ...

Oh, my hon. Friend is absolutely right—that is of course the way that article 50 works. My point ...

I am happy to tell the Committee that that is the case, as I shall confirm later.

I am delighted by that. It is important to people on both sides of the arguments that it be somet...

I just want to thank my right hon. Friend for having intervened in this matter and found a way to...

That is right. My right hon. and learned Friend and my hon. Friend the Member for North East Some...

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I am terribly sorry, but I am not going to take any further interventions. I am going to sit down...

It is, on this occasion, a real pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for West Dorset (Sir Oli...

Does my hon. Friend agree that services are so important to our economy that if we want to negoti...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right, which is why it is so important that we give ourselves the fl...

It is a pleasure to participate in this debate, and it was also a pleasure to listen to the hon. ...

Will the right hon. and learned Gentleman give way?

I will give way in a moment.

I made it quite clear on Second Reading that the purpose of th...

I understand the right hon. and learned Gentleman’s point about focusing on process rather than o...

Parliament should certainly be debating these matters. Individual Members will decide whether the...

My right hon. and learned Friend has been consistent all the way through our consideration of thi...

I thank my right hon. and learned Friend. Yes, it is a self-denying ordinance, but it was taken f...

I thank my right hon. and learned Friend for making so eloquently the point about the importance ...

I am filled with my hon. Friend’s Christmas spirit, and very much wish that it may be carried thr...

I would like to speak to new clauses 44 and 56, in my colleagues’ names. New clause 56 in the nam...

I had a similar experience to my hon. Friend. I delved into these documents with great excitement...

My hon. Friend makes an excellent point, and I agree. Having had a look at these assessments, I a...

Does the hon. Gentleman agree that perhaps another explanation for all the rigmarole surrounding ...

The right hon. Gentleman makes a good point. Huge efforts have gone into covering up these assess...

Of course this is not going to be a second referendum. I want to clarify once and for all that it...

I have enormous sympathy for the hon. Lady’s position and what she says, but the people of Scotla...

Does the hon. Gentleman accept that this would not be a second referendum? People are saying, “Th...

I am glad the hon. Gentleman referred to the previous result for Scotland, because one thing the ...

I rise on this eighth day of eight to propose that clauses 14 and 15, 18 and 19 and schedules 6, ...

Will the Minister give way?

I did want to make a serious point.

This is a serious point.

May I make my serious point first, and then give way?

It is sometimes said of this House th...

I am most grateful to my hon. Friend. What I wanted to say was that, at the start, there was some...

I am very grateful to my right hon. and learned Friend. For all the fire and smoke that we have h...

Will the Minister give way?

No, I wish to move on to my next point.

On this point about consensus, the Government have ...

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Before I move on to the specific clauses and schedules, I will give way just very briefly.

The Minister is being very generous. It would be very useful to Members on the SNP Benches if, du...

As the hon. Gentleman should know, my hon. and learned Friend the Solicitor General promised a Re...

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I will give way to the hon. Lady; she has been so patient.

I thank the Minister for giving way. He is generous. As a new MP, I must say that I am very surpr...

The hon. Lady reminds me of how much I miss the days of coalition on some occasions.

The cl...

Will my hon. Friend give way?

Well, I am going return to the subject of Gibraltar at considerable length later. [Interruption.]...

During the Minister’s course through the amendments, has he perhaps noticed new clause 54, which ...

I am most grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his comments, but I am only just beginning to conclu...

Could the Minister set out for the whole Committee—not just the Conservative Members sitting behi...

The hon. Lady is trying to pre-empt some of my remarks. If she will bear with me, I will come to ...

I apologise to the Committee for having had to be in the Liaison Committee for the last couple of...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend. I would also like to say thank you to him for the role he has pl...

How can it be right to tell the House that the exit date is being set by the House, when the amen...

It is an interesting question that the hon. Lady asks, but how does she think that exit day would...

The Minister, and the Prime Minister for that matter, repeatedly say that businesses will only ha...

The hon. Lady tempts me to dilate on the details of the implementation period, which are to be ne...

In referring to the transitional or the implementation period, my hon. Friend has at various time...

I pick up my right hon. and learned Friend on a couple of things. First, he has used the word “id...

You haven’t read it!

Of course I have read it—it is here in my hand. I have read it but I have not gone back and done ...

I have never previously seen members of the Government debate a clear exposition of Government po...

My right hon. and learned Friend has caught himself in a contradiction. In this exchange, he has ...

There is a sudden flurry of interest in this point. I will take an intervention from the right ho...

Ah! They are like spoiled children, aren’t they?

Is not another objection, if not the real ...

I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman, to whom I gave way because he has tabled relevant amen...

Will the Minister give way?

I will not give way now, because I have been on my feet for 22 minutes, and there are, I think, 5...

Will my hon. Friend give way?

I want to complete my argument, for the benefit of my hon. Friend the Member for Bromley and Chis...

Will my hon. Friend give way?

Before I give way to my right hon. Friend, I want to respond on the new clause tabled by my hon. ...

I am grateful to the Minister for going into such detail on the basis for charging. May I mention...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that clarification. He will know that, under the WTO foundati...

I am grateful for that assurance. There is just one other matter on which I hope my hon. Friend w...

I will. I am about halfway through my remarks. I will come to that.

I wonder whether the Minister could be quite clear at the Dispatch Box and give an undertaking on...

I am grateful to my right hon. Friend. I admit, I thought she was going to ask me about the matte...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I am really not going to take more interventions on this matter, because as I—

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No, I really am not giving way to the right hon. Gentleman; I insist.

I turn now to amendme...

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I will make the argument on this point. We maintain that it is absolutely right and necessary for...

Will the Minister give way?

I will, if it is on that set of amendments.

It is very relevant to the amendments that the Minister is currently running through, because the...

What I would say to the hon. Gentleman, and I try to say this as gently as possible and in the sp...

indicated assent.

He says that he did. I think we need to recognise that as a Government we are trying to make this...

No you haven’t.

It is a matter of fact that we have stood at this Dispatch Box, we have accepted amendments and w...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

No. I very much regret that on the occasion that is being referred to, we were not able to reach ...

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I will not take any more interventions on this point, which is not pertaining to the clauses befo...

We all know what’s happening

I do take objection—[Interruption.] I do take objection, because what we are going to do is move ...

Will my hon. Friend give way?

I am really not going to any more on this point.

Amendments 11 and 380 relate to the treatm...

Of the three points the Minister has made, the latter is without doubt the one that has the great...

I am most grateful to my right hon. and learned Friend. I know he is going to take this matter up...

I wish to pick up on the important point raised by my right hon. and learned Friend the Member fo...

My hon. and learned Friend the Solicitor General has just confirmed to me that we do not want tha...

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I will give way to the hon. Lady, and then I really will move on.

I apologise for interrupting the Minister’s stream of thought and taking him back to his response...

I refer to the answer I gave earlier. At this point, I can tell the hon. Lady that I am not expec...

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If it is on this point, I will not answer the hon. Gentleman.

It is indeed on this point. Some of the Minister’s right hon. and hon.—and courageous—Friends fro...

I did say that I would not answer the hon. Gentleman, but I cannot help saying that I do not reme...

Will the Minister confirm that Parliament is going to have its way? We will have a vote on any ag...

Yes, I will confirm that of course there will be full parliamentary scrutiny. One of the things t...

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I am not going to let the hon. Gentleman come in on this point, which we have dealt with.

I...

That is a very sensible approach on these matters, and I am very grateful to the Minister and my ...

It is ironic that my right hon. and learned Friend and I should be constituency neighbours, and, ...

I am grateful to the Minister for that assurance, particularly in the light of recent press repor...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his positive reaction to our amendment. The situation is as I...

This is the one amendment that would probably have attracted support from the Democratic Unionist...

The position is as I have set out, and I hope the hon. Gentleman will forgive me if, in all the c...

I have no doubt that the people and Government of Gibraltar will be grateful for the Minister’s a...

What I can say to the hon. Gentleman is that this Bill extends to Gibraltar only in the way I hav...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend and my hon. and learned Friend the Solicitor General for their fr...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend. My hon. and learned Friend the Solicitor General and I look forw...

Will the Minister give way?

I will give way one last time.

May I briefly take the Minister back to amendments 381 and 400? I thank him for his kind words ab...

Perhaps my hon. Friend was not in the Chamber when I gave my assurance on this earlier. I am happ...

Will the Minister give way?

I did say that that was the last time I would give way, and I think it is now time for me to—[Int...

It is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Sir David, and it is also a pleasure to follow the Unde...

Does my hon. Friend agree that if Parliament appeared to be dragging its feet on leaving the EU w...

I agree. One of the good things about the Minister is that he is not a lawyer, which is perhaps w...

Will my hon. Friend give way?

I will give way once to my hon. Friend, who is not a lawyer.

I am certainly not a lawyer. Would my hon. Friend care to explain to the House why she felt unabl...

I certainly trust this House but, to be honest, many of the people who were pushing that amendmen...

Is it not—[Interruption.] Yes, I am sorry, but I have got in again. One of the truths that we hav...

I have been clear since the day that I came into this House that I wanted us to get out of the Eu...

The hon. Lady has been totally consistent year after year in opposing EU encroachment on British ...

There is a lot in that.

Will my hon. Friend give way?

No, I will not give way at the moment.

Look at all the different EU regulations and the way...

Will the hon. Lady give way?

No, not at the moment.

My worry about amendment 7 is what the EU have done before with coun...

This is absolute nonsense.

My hon. Friend may think that I am talking absolute nonsense, but 17.5 million people out there d...

rose—

People voted to leave for all sorts of reasons, but—

Take the intervention!

I can see. I do not need to be told what to do by my hon. Friend; I have been here quite a long t...

Will my hon. Friend give way?

As my hon. Friend is very kind and nice, I give way.

Does my hon. Friend not understand the significance of the June election? The Prime Minister call...

Members who read this year’s Labour manifesto—it was very readable—will know that it was very cle...

Will the hon. Lady give way?

No, I am not giving way anymore, because a lot of people want to speak.

The reality is that...

Will my hon. Friend give way?

No, thank you.

We are disproportionately penalised by the common external tariff, so we are...

It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Vauxhall (Kate Hoey), who represents the par...

I recall the Minister asking the right hon. and learned Gentleman to list, after all his 47 years...

Parliament will have an opportunity to give its assent to the Government’s approach to the transi...

For the most part, this is a fairly benign new clause, but I am not certain, even from listening ...

It is an attempt to rule out both. Before anybody starts resorting to talking about drafting poin...

I have been trawling back through my more recent memory banks. If I am not mistaken, before the M...

I shall not go back to waxing too much about the nature of the debates we have been having. We ca...

rose—

Let me make a little more progress, or I am going to take far too long. I will try to give way la...

rose—

I will conclude if I may. I have already taken longer than I said, so please forgive me.

Le...

May I start by paying tribute to the right hon. and learned Member for Rushcliffe (Mr Clarke)? He...

Does my hon. Friend agree that it is no coincidence, given the reluctance to put the Florence spe...

Amendment 7 is incredibly important. That is why I was disappointed that my hon. Friend the Membe...

indicated dissent.

7.15 pm

If that is not the case for financial services—I can see the Minister shaking his head to indicat...

The only red lines from the Labour party that I have read about recently are these. The right hon...

Nobody voted to leave the single market and customs union. As the Chancellor has said, nobody vot...

I do not know whether my hon. Friend meant to say that his constituents are dependent on Scotch w...

That is exactly what Michel Barnier said. The Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union w...

Just as my hon. Friend the Member for Bristol East (Kerry McCarthy) took evidence this morning fr...

That is the key. We will have had 64 hours of debate in this Committee by the time we vote at 10 ...

Is not the reality that all this talk of Canada or Canada-plus-plus-plus is an illusion, and that...

This of course brings us to the crux of the Government’s ideology, and no Government Members can ...

Is there not a deep misunderstanding among those who say they want free trade agreements but to b...

That intervention—I will finish on this point—gets to the crux of new clause 13, because we will ...

Is it not interesting that when the public were consulted in a people’s assembly, with a represen...

I absolutely agree. The 34 million people who voted in the EU referendum probably voted one way o...

I shall be brief because I support amendments 381 and 400, advocated by my right hon. Friend the ...

We have no concerns at all here.

Is my hon. Friend asking me to give way?

No, no.

Excellent. It is always good to take a sedentary intervention from my hon. Friend.

I said I...

When that was said—it probably was said by one or two campaigners on the remain side during the r...

I always like to take an intervention from my right hon. and learned Friend. We agree on many thi...

I will undertake to send to my right hon. Friend a list of the various quotes from leading member...

That may be. I do not know of the Dog and Duck, unless they have moved a new building into my con...

We are debating what was said to the electorate during that period, but none of us are talking ab...

I am all for consulting the British people. That is what we are here for as MPs, right? It is wha...

Order. The debate will finish at 9.10 pm, and there are still 17 Members wishing to speak. Interv...

Thank you, Sir David. Your timing is perfect.

It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Mem...

Never.

As for new clause 54, it would be strange if Ministers did not want to support the Prime Minister...

I rise to support new clauses 54 and 13, both of which, if put to the vote, I shall vote for.

Of course they didn’t.

Exactly, of course they didn’t. They did not talk about the single market. They did talk about im...

I am happy to give my right hon. Friend an early Christmas present. I can give her the following ...

I think that that is the unequivocal statement I am looking for. If it is, I am extremely gratefu...

It is important to note the difference between EFTA and the customs union, which is mainly that E...

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. That is the sort of detail we need. We have to understand al...

I begin by expressing my condolences and those of all Members to our friend and colleague Mr Depu...

It is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Sir David. I start by associating myself with the condo...

It is a great pleasure to follow my good friend the Chair of the Justice Committee. I had the hon...

Since the moment when Sir David Amess was in the Chair and asked hon. Members to speak for no mor...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that one’s own speeches seem short and incisive, while oth...

I would like to speak first about new clause 13, because, for my constituency, the customs union ...

It is a great pleasure to speak in the last half hour of the 64 hours of the Committee stage of t...

rose—

I will not give way because of the lack of time.

This also misses the point that we trade a...

I am grateful for the chance to contribute to tonight’s debate. First, I will deal with new claus...

I call Suella Fernandes.

Last again.

Saving the best till last, perhaps.

I rise to speak in favour of amendment 400, to which I ...

I wish to speak briefly, as chair of the all-party group on the chemical industries, to new claus...

Order. We have hardly any time left. Ireland was debated last week.

The right hon. and learned Member for Rushcliffe (Mr Clarke) and my hon. Friend the Member for No...

I rise to speak to new clause 44, which is in my name and those of a number of Opposition Members...

I raise to support amendment 43. Hon. Members will know that this year marks the 150th anniversar...

I rise to speak to amendment 120. Since I arrived in this place in June and started taking part i...

I rise to speak to new clause 61. CF Fertilisers owns Britain’s only two complexes still making f...

I rise to support amendment 120, which would give the people the final say.

People whom I m...

This is an incredibly important Bill. New clause 13 would keep open the option for the United Kin...

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Is the position of the Secretary of State for Exiting ...

Order. That is simply not a point of order. We are dealing with serious business here, and it nee...