United Kingdom Internal Market Bill

With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:

Lords amendments 2 to 7.

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This Bill has generated a lot of debate in both Houses, and rightly so. It is a Bill that is vita...

It is good that the Minister recognises the importance of common frameworks. All four nations of ...

Discussions on that are ongoing and it is right that we have them. On the common frameworks, the ...

We have a strong agrifood sector in Northern Ireland. There needs to be an understanding between ...

The whole purpose of this is that we can get the internal market right. We do not want to hamper ...

I will just take the Minister back to his statement that the common frameworks were never suppose...

The hon. and learned Lady will note that the document states “where…necessary”. As I said earlier...

My understanding is that the Welsh Senedd will vote tomorrow to decline to approve the legislativ...

If the Welsh Assembly decides that way, that will be regrettable—[Interruption.] The Welsh Senedd...

Does the Minister not accept that for places such as Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland, common...

The right hon. Gentleman puts it correctly. When I have spoken to businesses in Scotland, Wales a...

Will the Minister give way?

I will just make progress for a minute.

The power will allow for strategic investment throu...

Can the Minister explain how this can be strategic investment if the Senedd and the Scottish Parl...

As we said in the last debate in this place, this is complementary to existing spending powers in...

The frustration at this utter confusion is that this actually circumvents the devolution settleme...

I can understand the frustration if that is the wilful misinterpretation of what is actually happ...

The Minister will appreciate, having had some hand in the amendments, that I have an interest in ...

I thank my hon. Friend for his contributions not just here and now, but in the earlier stages of ...

I thank the Minister for the commitment he has made about goods travelling from GB to Northern Ir...

I can indeed.

Part 5 of the Bill contains vital provisions to ensure that this will always ...

I wonder whether the Minister could reflect on two points. First, I am relatively new to this pla...

Indeed, we all want this to be dealt with through the Joint Committee. That is why the discussion...

I will not trespass on the Minister’s time again, but will he confirm that the deactivation of cl...

My hon. Friend is right again. I know the debate that has surrounded the “notwithstanding” clause...

I thank the Minister for giving way again. I just want to get some clarification. Article 16 of t...

As I have said before in regard to these clauses, the changes that we set out in a statement earl...

I thank the Minister for allowing me to intervene in this way. Does he welcome the comments made ...

I have not heard those words, so I will not comment on them. There has been a lot of commentary, ...

Colleagues will see that there are a large number of right hon. and hon. Members who want to cont...

It is a pleasure to be opposite the Under-Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial ...

I was going to congratulate the right hon. Gentleman on endorsing the hereditary principle, which...

As the hon. Member for Richmond Park (Sarah Olney) says, do not sign it, but I make another point...

It is untrue.

The hon. Gentleman says that that is completely untrue. I hope it is true, in the following sense...

Would the right hon. Gentleman be kind enough to give way on that point?

It is always a pleasure to give way to the hon. Gentleman, so I shall.

Perhaps the right hon. Gentleman recalls the fact that section 38 of the European Union (Withdraw...

I think the hon. Gentleman and I have had this exchange before. The fact is that the reason this ...

Of course we all want agreement and we all want a trade deal, but what happens if relations break...

The right hon. Gentleman and I agree absolutely about the United Kingdom, and I am now going to c...

The right hon. Gentleman is making a very valid point. Does he agree that the problem with the Bi...

However we describe it, I do not believe that the Bill properly respects the principles of devolu...

On that point, the national infrastructure strategy has just been published, and under the headin...

I think there is a very legitimate anxiety, which I hope the Minister will reflect on. Again, it ...

I make this point very genuinely. Fidelity to devolution is now being expressed from the Dispatch...

The hon. Gentleman and I have known each other a long time, and if one looks at the record of Lab...

We will now have a time limit of five minutes.

When I read the account of proceedings in the House of Lords, I found that the Lords were very st...

I was going to make exactly that point. Lord Judge, very respected as he is, basically conceded t...

More or less the same took place in my exchanges with my hon. Friend the Member for Bromley and C...

In. Out. Reinstate? As the right hon. Member for Doncaster North (Edward Miliband) has pointed ou...

The hon. Gentleman may disagree with the right of the UK Government to intervene financially on a...

Order. The hon. Gentleman is not misleading the House.

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I could have come back with a different response, but I apprecia...

The truth is that the Bill is an absolute abomination and drives a Trojan horse through the devol...

Indeed, it is the UK Government who are seeking to take back control from Scotland, and from Wale...

I am extremely grateful to the hon. Member for his forensic analysis of the British Government’s ...

The hon. Member is absolutely right. It is no surprise that in Scotland we have now had 15 opinio...

I thank the hon. Member for giving way to me for a second time. I simply cannot sit here and list...

This is the man who said:

“The UK Government is back in Scotland. Get used to it.”

We...

I am glad that the hon. Member is so supportive of the Belfast agreement, but would he accept tha...

Indeed, it should be the right of people living in any country to determine their own future, and...

Rubbish.

The hon. Member says “Rubbish”, but he knows that is not the case. We understand that the Tories ...

There is a five-minute limit on speeches.

When I voted to leave the European Union, it was not primarily over concerns with immigration or ...

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

I will give way once—to my right hon. Friend.

There has been virtually no discussion during this entire debate about the fact that this is a sa...

I entirely agree. I have used the analogy myself that this is a lifeboat that we hope we never ha...

Who would have thought that we would be here on 7 December—there are 24 days to go—with the Gover...

It is always an enormous pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Leeds Central (Hilary Benn)...

As the hon. Member for Harwich and North Essex (Sir Bernard Jenkin) pointed out, one of the most ...

Does the withdrawal Act that has been put forward or the Northern Ireland protocol included in th...

Any agreement that means laws can no longer be made in the United Kingdom, and puts economic barr...

It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for East Antrim (Sammy Wilson), although I fear ...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Sir Robert Neill). I feel...

After the next speaker, the time limit will be reduced to four minutes. With five minutes, I call...

It is a pleasure to speak in this debate and to follow the hon. Member for Wirral South (Alison M...

The hon. Gentleman has repeatedly said that there is no power grab, but Lord Hope of Craighead, w...

There is disagreement about this Bill, of that there is no doubt. But we have debated this matter...

rose—

I will give way because I like and respect the hon. and learned Lady.

It is not as simple as listing a power. [Interruption.] No, it is the whole scheme. This is not m...

The hon. and learned Lady knows full well that this place will not have the last say over vast sw...

Will my hon. Friend give way?

I will not, because I know there are far more people who want to speak.

It is not just me w...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I am afraid I cannot, because we have not got very much time.

This Bill will amount to more...

This was a controversial piece of legislation on Second Reading, so it is no surprise to find tha...

I will, if I may, focus on the amendments that seek to remove the entirety of part 5 of the Bill,...

My 10-year-old son asked me what we were debating this evening. I confessed it was Brexit, to whi...

It is a pleasure to follow that thoughtful speech from the right hon. Member for Bournemouth East...

The hon. Member for Belfast South (Claire Hanna) is a big act to follow. I rise to talk about the...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for South Ribble (Katherine Fletcher).

Noble pee...

It is an honour to follow the hon. Member for Enfield, Southgate (Bambos Charalambous). I have sp...

I rise tonight to support the Government in their approach to handling the United Kingdom Interna...

What are we being asked to do by the Government this evening? We are being asked to break interna...

My hon. Friend is making an excellent speech. Does he agree that many people around the country w...

That is exactly right, and it was the right hon. and learned Member for Torridge and West Devon (...

The withdrawal agreement, as agreed by the UK and the EU, contains a statement, under section 38 ...

To present this appalling Bill to the House once was outrageous, showing contempt for our Europea...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East (Stuar...

I rise to speak in support of the Government and against the Lords amendments. I do so as somebod...

I want to focus largely on the Lords amendments to part 5 of the Bill and to speak in support of ...

Yet again we have been reliant on the Lords to try to remedy matters in this Bill, which from the...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Kilmarnock and Loudoun (Alan Brown). I am pleased ...

I want to concentrate my remarks on the Lords amendments in relation to devolution, but first I w...

I call Wera Hobhouse; please resume your seat at 8.50 pm.

The desire and the right of the UK as a sovereign nation to trade unhindered with all its regions...

Order. My apologies to the seven Members who did not get in to speak. I call the Minister.

I thank everybody who spoke in the debate today and all the right hon. and hon. Members who have ...

As Madam Deputy Speaker informed the House earlier, Mr Speaker has given careful consideration to...

In order to observe social distancing, the Reasons Committee will meet in Committee Room 12.