Taxation (Cross-border Trade) Bill

Before my right hon. Friend gets deep into his analysis, may I ask him about the expression “a cu...

Clause 31 makes provision for this country to enter into a customs union with another territory. ...

The right hon. Gentleman says that he wants to do what is of “the greatest economic advantage to ...

I say gently to the right hon. Gentleman that we are going down a rather well-worn path. The answ...

I was almost reassured by what my right hon. Friend said in response to my hon. Friend the Member...

As my right hon. and learned Friend will know, article 50 was invoked—the decision was taken to i...

The Manufacturing Trade Remedies Alliance tells me that 7,000 manufacturing jobs, including 2,500...

The hon. Gentleman raises the extremely important matter of protecting our UK producers from dump...

The Financial Secretary of course knows how close we came to the collapse of the British steel in...

I am afraid that I have to disagree with the hon. Gentleman. The Bill takes a balanced approach t...

My hon. Friend mentions the need to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland. I know that he ...

My hon. Friend is entirely right. That is why we have consulted ports so extensively, most import...

On the specific need to keep trade frictionless, HMRC, which is part of the Minister’s Department...

The important point is that we are in discussions with HMRC about its funding—[Interruption.] If ...

Will the Minister confirm that on our current frontiers with the rest of the EU, excise, VAT, gen...

My right hon. Friend makes a very important point. There is no doubt that we can foresee an end s...

The Minister referred to the EU’s borders. It is not only that we have a border with the Republic...

As the hon. Gentleman will know, the overseas territories are not part of the existing European c...

Does the Minister recognise the advice given by HMRC’s permanent secretary that it believes that ...

I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention, but I do not want to be tempted too far into the neg...

The Minister is being very generous in taking interventions. Will he tell the House the estimated...

Any issues around impacts on the flow of goods or trade necessarily require an assessment of wher...

I have been asking the Minister for many months now about the impact of the 13th directive and th...

Issues relating to the 13th directive—as the hon. Lady will know, it is principally used by count...

To clarify, is it the Government’s policy to try to remain a member of the EU VAT area? That issu...

The purpose of the Bill is to ensure that on day one we are ready for whatever eventuality we are...

I appreciate that the Minister did not even get on to the section of his speech about VAT before ...

My right hon. Friend, who has been a doughty campaigner for the interests of business, is absolut...

My right hon. Friend said that the Treasury might be inclined to be generous to businesses that h...

The issues that my hon. Friend raises are probably slightly beyond the scope of the Bill, but the...

My right hon. Friend is being very generous. It would help us all if he could confirm that this i...

As usual, my hon. Friend is eloquent and to the point. He makes an important point because, as he...

I mention this only because of the very articulate response that my right hon. Friend gave to my ...

I think it is clause 32 that sets out the basis on which the powers will be dealt with. The Bill ...

My right hon. Friend is being very generous in giving way. An important element of what he is tal...

My hon. Friend raises an extremely important point. At the heart of the issues that we are discus...

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

Before I do, I give way to my right hon. and learned Friend.

I am extremely grateful to my right hon. Friend for giving way so generously, and for giving way ...

My right hon. and learned Friend raises an important point. The Government are indeed saying that...

The Minister has clarified that it is the Government’s intention to continue with the existing cu...

The right hon. Lady poses an ingenious question. The simple answer is that the form of the arrang...

The Minister keeps on referring to the importance of free and frictionless trade with the Europea...

The hon. Gentleman raises an important point, and it is one that I largely agree with. It is impo...

My constituents are today dealing with the news of yet more job losses at Vauxhall in Ellesmere P...

The opportunities will be very significant indeed—[Interruption.] If the hon. Lady will allow me,...

The Minister continually uses the word “frictionless” and talks about keeping things as they are ...

This comes back to the fundamental point that on leaving the European Union we will be leaving th...

The Minister seemed to say previously that it might not be a great thing for the UK to leave the ...

I apologise to the hon. Lady if I said something that in any way misled her. I do not think that ...

On the subject of the negotiations that the UK is having with countries with which it currently h...

As the hon. Lady will probably know, those are matters of ongoing discussion within the Departmen...

Will the Minister confirm that the European Union made it clear to the United Kingdom that we can...

It is entirely true that we cannot have our cake and eat it—[Interruption.] I am paraphrasing the...

I am grateful to the Minister for giving way. I sense that he is coming to a conclusion, so I wan...

I will make two points. First, as the hon. Gentleman will know, such matters are for the usual ch...

The Minister is being generous, as he always is. Having been opposing Whips at various points on ...

The hon. Gentleman is being typically tenacious, but he asks the same question as the hon. Member...

I thank the Minister for giving way and for drawing attention to the “Future customs arrangements...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right that the Government’s position is that we are determined to ex...

I beg to move an amendment, to leave out from “That” to the end of the Question and add:

“T...

It seems rather curious to criticise the Government for denying any detail while we are in the mi...

This Government have guaranteed absolutely nothing whatsoever. Time after time, they hide behind ...

Given where we are in the negotiations, does the hon. Gentleman accept that a Bill that allows ei...

The hon. Gentleman would have a point, but the Government’s record so far is to try to duck every...

Lots of people want to speak, so I will move on and come back in a minute.

We now have a Go...

Does my hon. Friend agree with me and many Labour Members that the programme motion needs to be m...

We will get as much scrutiny as possible on this Bill.

Having completely failed to create a...

As my hon. Friend says, it is critical that Parliament has a say. CF Fertilisers on Teesside is w...

My hon. Friend makes a good point that we need to have absolute scrutiny of the Government’s prop...

My hon. Friend spoke earlier about how many tens of thousands of businesses could end up with sev...

I am happy to have a conversation with my hon. Friend outside the Chamber, but this is about the ...

Does the hon. Gentleman recognise that HMRC has been given all the funding it has asked for to be...

There is no one in training and the staff on the ground take a completely different view from the...

I agree very much with the point my hon. Friend is making about the pitiful nature of the trade r...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right on that point.

What is concerning is the fact that UK ma...

I am sure my hon. Friend will have seen the letter in the Financial Times from the chief executiv...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right on that point, and on that issue the Government just are not l...

I feel that it is very necessary to ask this question, given that a majority of Labour Members ar...

My hon. Friend knows that that matter has been debated on many occasions, and I am not going to g...

I really wanted to contribute to today’s debate because my local port of Heysham is directly affe...

Does the hon. Gentleman accept that we on the Northern Ireland side also welcome the fact that th...

I could not have put that any better—I agree with everything the hon. Gentleman said.

I wil...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for enlightening the House on that point. As he knows, that bus is in ...

The hon. Gentleman explains succinctly that the supply chain that makes the buses is immense in h...

My hon. Friend is generous in giving way. I am sure that he agrees that, given that southern Irel...

I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention, which brings me nicely to my next point. I have to b...

I am grateful for the opportunity to speak on the Taxation (Cross-border Trade) Bill, which I wil...

The hon. Lady has mentioned at least twice the Law Society of Scotland briefing document, which I...

Because the UK Government decided that we are leaving the customs union and we will therefore nee...

Further to the point made by the hon. Member for Stirling (Stephen Kerr), has my hon. Friend seen...

I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend, who speaks for us on international trade. She is right ab...

My hon. Friend is making an excellent speech. How much faith does she have in the Government and ...

UK businesses have several questions about the capacity of HMRC to deal with the volume of custom...

I am afraid that I am not very familiar with our trade level with South Korea. I wonder whether t...

I picked South Korea and car manufacturing because the percentage is particularly high. However, ...

Perhaps my hon. Friend will join me in correcting the hon. Member for Walsall North (Eddie Hughes...

I appreciate that information.

There are so many technical issues that will have a major im...

I thank the hon. Lady for mentioning the incredibly important matter of cumulation. It is by cumu...

I think that we should remain in the customs union and the single market, because then we would n...

The hon. and learned Member for Edinburgh South West (Joanna Cherry) raised the importance of the...

There are EU FTAs with many countries and we trade through them. Because the EU has such a large ...

This debate and the presentation of this Bill are incredibly timely. Before Christmas, at the Eur...

That is an important point, and it has been reflected in the speeches from Members from two Oppos...

Absolutely. If we waited until every question that has been posed today could be answered—if, ind...

I do not know whether my hon. Friend agrees, but the speech we have just heard from the hon. Memb...

Absolutely, and that is the spirit in which the comments made by the vast array of trade organisa...

People could not disagree with a lot of what the hon. Gentleman is saying, but in the real world ...

The hon. Gentleman makes an important point. Manufacturing is such an important part of the econo...

My hon. Friend is making a powerful speech in favour of frictionless, free and fair trade. I hope...

My hon. Friend makes an important point. Frictionless trade is just as important between Northern...

The hon. Gentleman makes an important point that is sometimes overlooked in these debates: it is ...

That is absolutely right. As the hon. Gentleman will know, a third of the goods processed through...

My hon. Friend is making a good speech in which he is, of course, advocating free trade, in which...

My right hon. Friend makes a compelling point, but we have to accept that other political issues ...

Let me start by commending the work of the Manufacturing Trade Remedies Alliance, an organisation...

This is not necessarily on ceramics, but when it comes to research and development for industry, ...

My hon. Friend is trying to tempt me down a particular course of discussion around single market ...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent Central (Gareth Snell). I concur wi...

I want to take the opportunity provided by this Bill to raise an important opportunity that could...

In following the hon. Member for Redcar (Anna Turley), I can only applaud her support for her loc...

My hon. Friend is making a powerful speech. Does he agree that without this Bill we will have the...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. He brilliantly pre-empts the point I was about to make, which...

Has the hon. Gentleman had a chance to look at clause 31(4) in relation to forming a customs unio...

On that specific detail, the hon. Gentleman may well be right, but, ultimately, Parliament will d...

Will my hon. Friend give way?

Let me respond to the intervention, if I may, and I will then come to my hon. Friend.

The k...

I was just trying to help my hon. Friend. The answer is in clause 32(10), which states that the O...

Precisely. I am grateful to my hon. Friend. Everything comes back to this House.

The point ...

The Bill has profound implications for our economy, for many of our constituents, and for busines...

I am sure that the hon. Gentleman was conscious during the entirety of the referendum campaign. I...

Just because the hon. Gentleman asserts that it was very clear does not mean that that was the ca...

It was also made quite obvious during the referendum campaign that £350 million a week would be s...

Perhaps we all just dreamed about that—it was something that we conjured out of thin air and imag...

The Prime Minister at the time was perfectly clear that leaving the European Union did indeed inv...

Well, let the Prime Minister of the time come to tonight’s debate and say that himself.

He is not here.

Oh, that’s right—he is not here anymore. I vaguely remember who the Prime Minister was at the tim...

I draw attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. This is not just ab...

I will come on to that when I discuss part 3 of the Bill and the VAT consequences for not just bu...

I know that the hon. Gentleman holds his views deeply and sincerely; colleagues of mine hold very...

If only that were the case. In fact, that same point is raised in paragraph 9 on page 6 of the ex...

I completely agree with my hon. Friend’s point. Is it not underlined by the fact that the Governm...

That is why I suspect that the other place will look at the truncated scrutiny. I tried to get th...

I am happy to confirm that the Bill will have eight Committee sittings in the House of Commons.