Northern Ireland Budget (No. 2) Bill

Very well spotted—it will be moved. Thank you.

With this it will be convenient to consider the following:

Clauses 2 to 9 stand part

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Thank you, Dame Rosie, and I am delighted to serve with you in the Chair today as we go through C...

It is an honour to serve under your chairship, Dame Rosie, in this Committee. I will keep my rema...

If I may, I will both put on record my thanks to the hon. Member for Hove (Peter Kyle) and my con...

rose—

I will call the right hon. and learned Gentleman, but I remind colleagues that there are Third Re...

Thank you Dame Rosie. I will trespass upon your good will by focusing on clause 1 and the necessi...

My right hon. and learned Friend makes a very good case. I am conscious that his amendment was no...

I am extremely grateful to my hon. Friend, and I would commend him for any discussions he might h...

I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time.

I would like to place on record my...

May I begin by expressing my thanks to my predecessor, my hon. Friend the Member for Hove (Peter ...

I call the Scottish National party spokesperson.

10.39 pm

I, too, welcome the right hon. Member for Leeds Central (Hilary Benn) to his new position, and I ...

The hour is late, so I will make just a couple of points about the budget. The first is that, of ...

I am listening carefully, and I appreciate the tone in which the right hon. Gentleman is deliveri...

That is the kind of answer that worries me as a Unionist, and it should worry many people in the ...

I know this is a debate on the budget, so I will try to be very brief. I know the right hon. Gent...

Of course, the important thing in the Belfast agreement was that the status of Northern Ireland i...

I start by thanking the hon. Member for Hove (Peter Kyle) for his service as Opposition spokesman...

It is a pleasure, as always, to follow the hon. Member for Belfast South (Claire Hanna), my const...

What the hon. Gentleman is saying is undoubtedly true, but does he also accept—I think the Select...

The best that can be hoped for in this scenario is that a return to devolved Government means tha...

At the outset, may I join in paying tribute to the outgoing shadow Secretary of State, the hon. M...

The hon. Gentleman has just hit the nail on the head: a restored Executive could work in partners...

I am very grateful to the Minister of State for his comments. I largely agree with him, but I wil...

I think it is helpful to emphasise at this point that, although the Minister indicated that this ...

Indeed. I think we are talking to two separate points in that regard. Yes, the block grant would ...

We are approaching tomorrow, so I will try not to detain the House too long with the comments I w...

Thankfully, the hon. Gentleman is not writing the speeches for the investment conference next wee...

I thank the Minister, but I was once told, “If you throw a stone among a pack of dogs, the one th...

The hour is late so I will cut to the chase, but I think it is worth underlining the views outlin...

I add my comments about the outgoing shadow Secretary of State, the hon. Member for Hove (Peter K...

I welcome my right hon. Friend the Member for Leeds Central (Hilary Benn) to his new role. It sho...

I call Jim Shannon.

11.53 pm

Thank you, Mr Speaker. It is good to see that you and I are the Duracell batteries of Westminster...

I call the Minister.

With the leave of the House, Mr Speaker, given that I made a number of interventions during the d...