United Kingdom Internal Market Bill

As ever, it is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dame Rosie. This Cummings-directed To...

My hon. Friend is making a very important point. One issue raised by the General Teaching Council...

I do indeed. I thank my hon. Friend for her intervention. As I mentioned in my speech last week, ...

The hon. Member is absolutely right that there will be no trade deal if any damage is done to the...

I completely agree with my hon. Friend. His point that the Good Friday agreement is being put in ...

I am sure that the hon. Gentleman shares my concern that Professor Dougan also draws attention to...

Indeed—I agree. In fact, Professor Dougan has said:

“I do not share UKGov’s apparent assump...

I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on his very carefully crafted amendment 89, which would mean a ...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for that. Of course, that is where we all should be aiming—a race to t...

I am interested in why the hon. Gentleman seems to assume that any standards legislated for in th...

Perhaps you should ask your hon. and right hon. Friends on your Back Benches who voted against yo...

Order. The hon. Gentleman knows that he should not address another hon. Member directly. When he ...

You will notice, Dame Rosie, that it is a very uncommon mistake I have made, in that case. I take...

Is the hon. Gentleman aware of the manner in which authorisations are given? Stating that it has ...

It beggars belief that this kind of intervention attacking EU procedures is being made when the B...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

No, I will make some progress on this.

That is regardless of the views of the people of Sco...

It is, of course, a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dame Rosie. Did I get those words ...

It seems to be generally understood that my hon. Friend the Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (S...

It is important to remember, as the hon. Gentleman has said, that Sir Robert Neill is not in his ...

Thank you, Dame Rosie, and I thank the hon. Member for Stone (Sir William Cash) for his intervent...

Order. It may be helpful for me to clarify a point for the hon. Member for Foyle (Colum Eastwood)...

After that very helpful clarification, I have to say that the issues that I was going to raise wo...

The hon. Gentleman is quite correct in saying that.

I shall refer, then, to the more general questions about the state aids that I have just heard an...

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Just a moment. This refers back to what I said earlier when the hon. Member for Inverness, Nairn,...

I have heard the hon. Gentleman’s arguments before and I understand the point he is coming from, ...

I am always extremely aware of other points of view—I have been subjected to them for the past 35...

The hon. Gentleman discussed the situation in the 1950s and ’60s, and I know that he likes to dwe...

That is interesting, because the counterpoint to that—the hon. Gentleman would expect me to come ...

As someone who represents two coalmining valleys, I think the hon. Gentleman might be guilty of s...

I voted against my own Government and nearly defeated them on the question of the closure of pits...

Diolch yn fawr, Dame Rosie. It is an honour to follow the hon. Member for Stone (Sir William Cash...

I have listened to days of this debate and to many constituents, and while I started off feeling ...

The hon. Gentleman makes a point about international law being talked about among his constituent...

What I am clear about, which is why I said at the beginning I was more nervous until we got to th...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dame Rosie. I rise to speak on behalf of the L...

I am sorry for interrupting the hon. Lady so early in her speech, but she hits on a key point. Th...

I entirely agree. I was going on to say that the Secretary of State also awards himself the power...

I wonder whether the hon. Member might reflect on the fact that this is a UK Government—a Governm...

The hon. Member touches on quite an important point. I do not believe that it is in the scope of ...

I would like to raise two main points on the clauses that are being discussed today. The first is...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his comments on state aid, and I also thank the hon. Member for St...

The hon. Gentleman might not have recognised where the Conservative party has moved to, but I gua...

My hon. Friend is a doughty champion for trade and prosperity. Does he agree that, in these diffi...

I could not agree more with my hon. Friend. We need only to look at the crucial trading relations...

The hon. Gentleman talks about standards, but he started his speech this afternoon by saying that...

The hon. Lady makes an interesting point, but she does not answer the point that I was making: th...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

No, I have already given way to the hon. Lady once on this point.

More broadly, it is cruci...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Dame Rosie. I reiterate my support for amendment ...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Brighton, Pavilion (Caroline Lucas). As someone wh...

Order. Just a gentle reminder that because we are in Committee, it is usually customary to call m...

Thank you, Dame Rosie. It is my pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Warwick and Leamington (Ma...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms McDonagh. I rise to speak in support of amendm...

I rise in support of the Bill.

Hear, hear.

I am glad that the Minister is in favour of the Bill as well; that is good news.

In the mod...

Will the hon. Member give way?

In a second. I would like to make a bit of progress.

The European Union would not give its ...

The hon. Gentleman is mischaracterising the attempts by my hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow Nor...

I was afraid that the hon. Lady would not understand my point fully. Let me make it for her again...

Does my hon. Friend agree that if SNP Members actually wanted to break up the Union and the Bill ...

As always, I agree with my hon. Friend.

The Bill has been put forward and we are in the pos...

It is a pleasure to speak in this debate; I have spoken in a number of debates during the passage...

On the point that my hon. Friend is making about unfettered access across all four nations of the...

I thank my hon. Friend. That is exactly what I am saying and exactly the point that we are trying...

On day four in Committee, it is tempting to regurgitate all the points that have been made previo...

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I have been waiting for an intervention— I give way.

Of course, it is not a single power. The effect would be felt across many of the devolved powers....

No more than the market access operated under the EU market. The devil is always in the detail, a...

Does the hon. Gentleman accept that there already exist wide regulatory differences between the f...

My constituency has a huge concentration of high mountain and hilltop sheep farming. This Bill af...

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I will give way once more, and then I promise to be brief.

We come at this a different way. Can the hon. Gentleman name a single power that will not potenti...

That is a wonderful intervention. Such is the power of the hon. Lady’s argument that she asks me ...

I will address you in the Chair, Ms McDonagh, as is customary, but I hope through you to get a me...

I am listening very carefully to the language the hon. Lady is using. There are lots of coulds an...

The hon. Gentleman is in effect saying that we have to just trust that the UK Government will not...

Further to that point, does my hon. Friend not find it extraordinary that, if the Government are ...

I do indeed find that extraordinary, but perhaps they will have a change of heart if what the hon...

Will the hon. Lady give way?

No, I need to get on.

The Government say that the Bill creates an internal market based on ...

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I will let the hon. Gentleman intervene in a minute.

Banning smoking in public places is on...

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The hon. Gentleman does not have to keep doing that. I said I will let him in, so I will let him ...

I thank the hon. Lady. May I just touch on alcohol pricing? Of course, that would not change much...

I think what the hon. Gentleman is doing is making an argument for independence. If he is saying ...

I rise to support amendments 81 to 85, which are in my name. I will also pick up on a couple of t...

We are talking about songs today, and I appreciate the hon. Member for Glasgow North East (Anne M...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Of course, on family—I will always give way to a member of my family.

The hon. Gentleman is talking a lot about this family of nations and how we are all going to come...

I think we discussed this last Tuesday in relation to the Competition and Markets Authority and m...

Will the hon. Gentleman accept that this is based on bitter experience of this place? I would poi...

Once again, this comes back to the difference between our parties. I believe in one country—one U...

I banged my head on the desk when I was upstairs watching this on television. The separatists on ...

I could not agree more, but let us be honest, SNP Members do not want to talk about success; they...

Is the hon. Gentleman aware that Scotland did not vote to leave the EU? Scotland voted to remain ...

I hate to rehash the arguments, but the United Kingdom did vote to leave the European Union. I am...

I hope that my hon. Friends will forgive me if I do not go down exactly the same route as some of...

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I am sure the hon. Lady would be disappointed if she did not get every speaker to give way to her...

If the hon. Gentleman is perfectly happy for our separate legal systems to mean that someone has ...

The first point is that there have to be professional qualifications in order to recognise the pe...

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I will certainly give way to my hon. Friend, who knows a great deal about this.

Does my hon. Friend note, as I do, that the OJEU process in the United Kingdom resulted in less t...

My hon. Friend, whose experience in local government is huge and much more recent than mine, is a...

I rise to speak in favour of the amendments tabled by the Labour Front-Bench team, and to put on ...

I am grateful for the opportunity to contribute to the debate. I will focus my remarks—like many,...

Does the hon. Gentleman not recognise that there are actually differences in regulations at the m...

I absolutely recognise that, which is why I chose my words extremely carefully in referencing the...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I will not. I apologise, but I wish to make some progress.

The idea that the negotiations w...

I rise to speak to amendment 89 and a number of other amendments that appear in my name and those...

I also rise to speak to amendment 89 and the other amendments listed in my name and the names of ...

Does my hon. Friend agree that it tells a huge story that the Government have voted against those...

Absolutely. An amendment was tabled by one of their own Members—the Chair of the Environment, Foo...

Does my hon. Friend share my amazement that not a single Scottish Tory has attended today’s debat...

The Conservatives tend to count on the farming community in Scotland. I echo what others have sai...

I rise to speak to new clause 9, which I have tabled with the support of my Liberal Democrat coll...

Does the hon. Lady agree that there requires to be added another “c”: consent? We hear a lot abou...

I thank the hon. Lady for her intervention. I would argue that consensus also implies consent, be...

May I say what a fine speech that was? I may not agree with much of what was in it, but it was a ...

Does the hon. Gentleman not accept that there has been about a year’s worth of work on agreeing c...

I think that there is a lot of merit in that approach. I suspect—I am sure that the hon. Lady wil...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I will just develop my point and then of course the hon. Lady can come back in. I see a Bill that...

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Order. I am sorry, but we have strayed a bit off the point. I like to give flexibility and latitu...

To get to the point about regulation and standards, I have listened to the debate and there have ...

Why, then, will the Government refuse to protect those standards in legislation? We have had an A...

Certainly, in my view, the Government have not at any point refused to give such a commitment. Le...

The hon. Gentleman says that there is no evidence at all that the Government will lower standards...

Many, many things could happen in life, but the point remains that not one Opposition Member has ...

At this stage in the debate, my challenge is to try to say something original on the various diff...

I rise to speak to the amendments and new clauses in my name, and in the names of my right hon. a...

I echo the importance of public procurement remaining a devolved power. The Government contracted...

The hon. Lady makes a good point. As Labour has been arguing throughout this crisis, local decisi...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Evans, and to conclude this debate. We have...

Does the Minister not accept that trying to improve public health, reduce waste and protect the e...

As I say, we are trying to keep this narrow so that one part of the UK does not face discriminati...

Will the Minister give way?

I must bring my response to a close. The amendment risks undermining the independence of the CMA ...

Will my hon. Friend give way?

I cannot at the moment, I am afraid. I hope that hon. Members will not press their amendments to ...

Earlier, my hon. Friend mentioned the Sewel convention. Could he set out exactly what influence i...

Exactly. As my hon. Friend knows, it has none. Importantly, as we bring back power from the EU to...

I have several pages of amendments and clauses that I will put before the House. At this stage, m...

Amendments and new clauses to be moved on Report may now be tabled. Members should table them thr...

On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. Some of the orders that we are about to deal with are qui...

The default procedures of the House, as the right hon. Member knows, are designed such that these...

Further to that point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. I want to raise the issue of the inconsistency...

Sir Christopher, you have made your point very well, and my advice is the same as I gave to Sir D...