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Article 50 — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Immigration
David Michael Davis (Conservative, Centre-right): That is a very specific question; forgive me if I have not answered it before. I will write to the hon. Gentleman, but I think the answer is that there will be no change. The aim, as I have said to him before, is that common travel area rights both ways—including the rights to vote, to work and so on—will continue, but I will write to him about the detail.
Article 50 — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Other
David Michael Davis (Conservative, Centre-right): Listening to my hon. Friend’s question, I am reminded of the biblical comment that the first should be last and the last should be first. He asks a first-class question. He is right that it is impossible to work out what they are trying to do unless one assumes that they are trying to foil the interests of the British people.
Defence Estate — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Housing
Michael Fallon (Conservative, Centre-right): I was not, in fact, a member of the Government in 1996—I was taking a temporary leave of absence from Parliament at that time—but I obviously recall the Annington Homes contract. The hon. Gentleman is correct that a number of these homes have to be handed back when that lease expires, but that is slightly separate from the strategy I am announcing today, and I will write to him in detail.
Defence Estate — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Housing
Felicia Jane Beatrix Drummond (Conservative, Centre-right): I am pleased that the MOD is releasing land for the building of 55,000 new homes, but will it still fund the armed forces Help to Buy scheme after 2018? Members of the armed forces would then be in a position to buy one of those homes, some of which I assume will be near military bases.
Defence Estate — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Housing
Michael Fallon (Conservative, Centre-right): I announced at the Conservative party conference that we are extending the forces Help to Buy scheme for another year, from the beginning of April 2017, and I hope that is welcome. We will need to take another decision as we come up to each future year.
Defence Estate — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Mixed Topics
Michael Fallon (Conservative, Centre-right): Yes, I can be very open in replying to the hon. Lady. The Kinnegar logistics site is going to be disposed of, and those who occupy it at the moment will be moving to the Palace barracks in Holywood.
Defence Estate — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Housing
Marcus John Hudson Fysh (Conservative, Centre-right): I welcome the Secretary of State’s commitment to Yeovilton. I commend to him the opportunities to take advantage of the dualling of the A303 in order to make the most of the estate by building on what is at that location.
Defence Estate — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Housing
Michael Fallon (Conservative, Centre-right): First, let me make it very clear to the House that every decision within this strategy is based on military advice—the advice of the service chiefs— as to how we better organise our capabilities. Secondly, in the end it will be for local authorities to rule on the exact proportion of affordable housing, but yes, we need more housing, and more affordable housing, in areas of shortage. Thirdly, we are consulting on the future accommodation model whereby we may be able to help service families in different ways. For example, rather than saying that their only option is to live on the barracks—on the estate—we could consider an option for them to have the money themselves to rent or, as has been suggested, to start to buy their own homes. We are looking at different ways of satisfying modern housing needs, but at the moment we are merely consulting on the different options.
Defence Estate — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Public Lands
Michael Fallon (Conservative, Centre-right): The disposure date for Beachley barracks is set at 2027, so there is plenty of time for those discussions to begin. The purpose of publishing the strategy today is so that we can get on with those discussions with local authorities and see what alternative use might be made of the site. It could be residential or, indeed, commercial. My hon. Friend the Member for Winchester (Steve Brine) is already having discussions about a new technology park in the place of Sir John Moore barracks outside Winchester. There are many alternative uses that we will want to discuss with the local authorities concerned.
Defence Estate — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Housing
Michael Fallon (Conservative, Centre-right): I am happy to give the hon. Lady that assurance. I have read the reports of the Committee’s public sessions with interest. It is important that we move on from the statement and see these local discussions take place. We have a target, to which we have committed, of 55,000 new homes across this Parliament, so we, too, have an interest in making sure that we maximise the number of homes that can be released. I was drawing the House’s attention to the other possible commercial uses—for small businesses, technology parks and so on—that may, in some circumstances, be more appropriate.
Defence Estate — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Housing
Michael Fallon (Conservative, Centre-right): The answer to that is yes. HMS Raleigh will be considered as a receiver site, as we call them, for some of the units that are being consolidated into the Devonport area and into the excellent accommodation, which I have visited.
Defence Estate — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Housing
Michael Fallon (Conservative, Centre-right): I am happy to write to the hon. Gentleman about the number of jobs per site, but I can tell him that the local authority has ambitious plans for the future development of that accommodation. Some of the units are likely to be re-provided for at Leuchars, but we hope to see that site become part of the commercial lay-down in the Stirling area.
Defence Estate — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Housing
Julian William Hendy Brazier (Conservative, Centre-right): I congratulate my right hon. Friend and my hon. Friend the Member for Milton Keynes North (Mark Lancaster) on the work that they have done to provide a good set-up for defence and to meet the housing target of 55,000 homes. I urge my right hon. Friend, in looking at the accommodation strategy, to bear it in mind that the provision of good-quality service family accommodation is crucial not just for retention, but, in many cases, for maintaining morale among soldiers and other service people who go to war, particularly when there are casualties.
Defence Estate — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Public Lands
Michael Fallon (Conservative, Centre-right): Let me confirm again that the infantry training centre will not be disposed of. My hon. Friend makes the very important point that the barracks contains the Royal Welch Fusiliers Museum. I have visited the museum, and seen the memorabilia associated with Private Hook and others in the battle of Rorke’s Drift. The position is that the museum is currently negotiating a long-term lease with the Ministry in order to secure lottery funding for an extension. The lease has not yet been finalised, but it is likely to contain a clause enabling the trustees to purchase the freehold if and when the site is disposed of. I hope that is helpful to my hon. Friend, but I am very happy to discuss all this further with him.
Points of Order — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Mixed Topics
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman is to be shocked, but I am afraid that he will be because, to the best of my knowledge and belief, I have received no indication of any intention on the part of the Government to make a statement on this matter in the way and of the kind that he wants. I am grateful to him for giving me notice that he wished to raise the matter. Let me say this: as I repeatedly remind the House, the content of Ministers’ answers to parliamentary questions is a matter not for the Chair but for the Minister concerned. I am sure that the hon. Gentleman’s point has been heard by those on the Treasury Bench and will be relayed with alacrity to the Minister of State. If the Minister finds that his answer was inaccurate—that was not altogether clear to me—and therefore essentially agrees with the hon. Gentleman’s analysis, I am sure he will take steps to correct the record. It may be—I am not saying it is—that the Minister takes a different view of the facts of the matter, but I cannot arbitrate between different views. Meanwhile, however—we await events—the hon. Gentleman has succeeded in placing his concern on the record.
Exiting the EU and Workers’ Rights — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Mixed Topics
Gregory David Clark (Conservative, Centre-right): I will come on to say something about that in a few seconds, which I hope will satisfy the hon. Lady No one listening to this debate should think that we have any intention of eroding the rights that we enjoy in this country through our process of leaving the European Union. In fact, the opposite is true. We will be using the legislation before this House to entrench all existing workers’ rights in British law, whatever future relationship the UK has with the EU.
Exiting the EU and Workers’ Rights — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Mixed Topics
Gregory David Clark (Conservative, Centre-right): This Government introduced the national living wage as well, and I will go on to talk about some other proud achievements. It is a helpful feature of this debate that we are able to say, clearly and unambiguously, that all the rights derived from membership of the EU will be imported into UK law through legislation in this House.
Exiting the EU and Workers’ Rights — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Immigration
Gregory David Clark (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend is absolutely right. This House has had good reason to be proud of the protections we have given workers in this country over the years. We do not need to rely on protections from the EU. We have inaugurated them in this House, and have a proud history of doing so over the years.
Exiting the EU and Workers’ Rights — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Civil Rights
Gregory David Clark (Conservative, Centre-right): I am surprised by the hon. Gentleman’s intervention. I would have thought that hundreds of years of parliamentary sovereignty and a robust and independent judiciary are a very strong guarantee of the rights we have in this country.
Exiting the EU and Workers’ Rights — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Mixed Topics
Brett Charles Anthony Elphicke (Conservative, Centre-right): Does the point made by the hon. Member for Swansea West (Geraint Davies) not hammer home the fact that one moment the Opposition are saying that this House should be sovereign on article 50 and all matters to do with Brexit, and in another that this House should not be trusted with employment law? Is there not a deep irony there?
Exiting the EU and Workers’ Rights — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Mixed Topics
Michael James Tomlinson-Mynors (Conservative, Centre-right): Contrary to what the hon. Member for Great Grimsby (Melanie Onn) says, the Conservatives have a record of such action over hundreds of years. Robert Peel, the father of Sir Robert Peel, introduced the very first factory Act under the rather wonderful title of the Health and Morals of Apprentices Act 1802.
Exiting the EU and Workers’ Rights — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Civil Rights
John Alan Redwood (Conservative, Centre-right): As someone who has always fully supported the transfer of all these rights into British law, I welcome the Secretary of State’s promise. Will the Labour party promise us that, assuming the proposed Bill transfers all those rights unequivocally, they will support that Bill? It will be the only way to transfer and guarantee those rights.
Exiting the EU and Workers’ Rights — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Other
Eleanor Fulton Laing (Conservative, Centre-right): Order. First, the House is too noisy. This is meant to be a genteel and well-behaved debate on an important matter. Secondly, although I hesitate to interrupt the hon. Member for Norwich South (Clive Lewis) while he is speaking from the Dispatch Box, I must point out that he has now used the word "you" on several occasions, and that there are several good reasons why we use the third person in this place. It has to do with keeping the level of debate reasonable and courteous. I know that the hon. Gentleman is extremely courteous and will want to continue to be courteous. If he wants to accuse hon. Members of something, he should not accuse me.
Exiting the EU and Workers’ Rights — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Other
Eleanor Fulton Laing (Conservative, Centre-right): As the hon. Gentleman knows, it is not for me to decide whether what a Member who has the Floor is saying is reasonable or otherwise, but I am sure that the hon. Member for Norwich South (Clive Lewis) will bear in mind what has been said by the hon. Member for North Antrim (Ian Paisley), and will moderate the way in which he is using his excellent rhetoric.
Exiting the EU and Workers’ Rights — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Other
Eleanor Fulton Laing (Conservative, Centre-right): Order. I really have tried not to interrupt the hon. Gentleman, and when he has done something once I have let it go, but I am afraid that I cannot do that twice. In the Chamber, we must either refer to each other by constituency or refer to "the Minister" or "the Secretary of State". I will not insist that the hon. Gentleman get the constituencies right; just the odd reference to "the Minister" would do fine.
Exiting the EU and Workers’ Rights — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Civil Rights
John Alan Redwood (Conservative, Centre-right): I think it is incumbent on this Parliament to accept the verdict of the referendum that we gave to the British people and to understand that we are all under a duty now. Democracy is on trial. What would the public think if their Parliament gave them a decision to make and then tried to stop that decision being implemented? That would put us in an impossible position, and anyone who followed that course would have a very miserable time when they next faced the electors Once the referendum is over, we have a duty to represent all our constituents. I have to represent the remain constituents of Wokingham just as much as the leave constituents. I cannot possibly vote on both sides of the issue, but I can ensure that the legitimate concerns of my remain voters are taken into account. I can assure the House that I will be very active in lobbying Ministers when remain voters identify real problems. The main problem that they are identifying at the moment is the uncertainty. They want us to speed up, and the more Members think that delay is a good idea, the more the uncertainty will build and the more damage could conceivably be done. We all have a duty now to speak for all our constituents, but we can only have one vote. Surely MPs must now vote for the settled will of the British people, having offered them that referendum.
Exiting the EU and Workers’ Rights — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Immigration
John Alan Redwood (Conservative, Centre-right): The Vote Leave campaign was clear that we want the Government to guarantee the rights of all legally settled workers in this country. The Government have said that everyone who is here legally is quite entitled and welcome to stay on the assumption that no one from our country who is living overseas is threatened. I do not believe that any of our European partner countries will threaten any of our people who are legally settled in those countries, so I think it is more or less absolutely guaranteed that everybody is welcome to stay and that the British Government have absolutely no plan to suggest that they should not be.
Exiting the EU and Workers’ Rights — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Other
Eleanor Fulton Laing (Conservative, Centre-right): Order. That was a good correction just in time, but if I have to be strict with the Official Opposition Front Bench at this end of the Chamber, I have to be strict with the SNP Front Bench at that end as well.
Exiting the EU and Workers’ Rights — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Civil Rights
Michael James Tomlinson-Mynors (Conservative, Centre-right): As ever, the hon. Gentleman is making his case eloquently. However, did he fail to listen to the speech made by the Secretary of State, who set out clearly that all these rights will be transferred?
Exiting the EU and Workers’ Rights — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Immigration
Anna Mary Soubry (Conservative, Centre-right): I am sort of grateful to the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. I have never given up on anything, but I have to understand, as he must, that we were very clear. We said to people that the referendum was their decision and that if they voted leave, they would get leave. However, that does not mean that I would not fight tooth and nail to make sure that the Government go into the negotiations seeking to make sure that we stay a member of the single market, for example The hon. Gentleman knows my views on the free movement of labour and people. Along with the right hon. Member for Tottenham (Mr Lammy), I am the most liberally minded—with a small l—Member of this House on immigration. Labour Members have the huge problem that they find themselves looking over their shoulders at the vote in their own constituency knowing, as I hope they do, why their constituents voted as they did. In many constituencies, people voted to leave because they wanted to reduce the number of people coming into our country. We should be clear about that. Labour Members have far more of a dilemma than I have as we leave the EU and try to work out the best deal for our country. I have no difficulty in making the case for us to stay in the single market, and I certainly have no difficulty in making the case for the free movement of people.
Exiting the EU and Workers’ Rights — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Other
Eleanor Fulton Laing (Conservative, Centre-right): Order. This has been a very good and lively debate, and I do not want to put on a formal time limit because that curtails the quality of the debate, but if, from now on, Back Benchers would take approximately nine minutes each, then everyone who wishes to speak will have a chance to do so.
Exiting the EU and Workers’ Rights — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Order. We have about an hour left and eight Members wish to speak: they can do the arithmetic for themselves. I thank the hon. Member for Great Grimsby (Melanie Onn) for keeping to the informal limit, but I think it should now be nearer to eight minutes.
Midland Main Line Electrification — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Other
Philip Thomas Hollobone (Conservative, Centre-right): My right hon. Friend has made a hugely impressive speech and a devastatingly powerful case, uniting both sides of the House. Should not the Minister commit in his response to meeting all of us with the Secretary of State so that we can impress on them how important this issue is to all our constituencies and the fact that we refuse to be left behind again?
Cybercrime — House of Commons, 2016-10-27
Topic: Mixed Topics
Robert James Buckland (Conservative, Centre-right): I am very conscious of that case, as I have a strong interest in autism issues. I have to emphasise that it is of course a matter for the courts—there has been a court procedure relating to this issue—so I am loth to make direct comment on the case, but I am certainly following it very carefully.
International Men's Day — House of Commons, 2016-10-27
Topic: Civil Rights
Caroline Julia Dinenage (Conservative, Centre-right): Some women might be forgiven for thinking that every day is International Men’s Day, but this year it falls on 19 November. The theme will be "Making a Difference for Men and Boys", and there will be a focus on the very important issue of male suicide. As with International Women’s Day, it will be up to Back Benchers to bid for parliamentary time for a debate on the subject, and I encourage them to do so. Of course, I welcome any initiatives that support gender equality and its meaning in people’s lives.
International Men's Day — House of Commons, 2016-10-27
Topic: Civil Rights
Caroline Julia Dinenage (Conservative, Centre-right): Let me gently say that I think that my hon. Friend is being a little unfair. The role of the Government Equalities Office is to tackle inequality wherever we find it. All parents of sons throughout the country, including me, will be conscious of and concerned about the issues that the hon. Gentleman and, indeed, the Prime Minister have mentioned. However, I am also aware that there are parts of the world where girls are routinely subjected to genital mutilation, forced marriage and sexual violence. For me, equality is not a zero sum game.
International Men's Day — House of Commons, 2016-10-27
Topic: Civil Rights
Caroline Julia Dinenage (Conservative, Centre-right): International Men’s Day in the United Kingdom takes a very gender-inclusive approach, which is why issues affecting women and girls are also involved. The hon. Gentleman made an important point about the gender pay gap. We welcomed reports this week that it has been reduced again, and is now narrower than it has ever been. However, he was also right to point out that, while focusing on the very important issues that International Men’s Day raises, we must never forget all the women around the world who are suffering every single day.
International Men's Day — House of Commons, 2016-10-27
Topic: Civil Rights
Philip Thomas Hollobone (Conservative, Centre-right): No doubt, in seeking ways of celebrating International Women’s Day, the Minister has looked around the world to find out which countries do it best. Which countries best celebrate International Men’s Day, and will she note the example that they provide?
International Men's Day — House of Commons, 2016-10-27
Topic: Civil Rights
Caroline Julia Dinenage (Conservative, Centre-right): I know that 60 countries celebrate International Men’s Day in various ways, focusing on men’s health and wellbeing, discrimination against men and any inequalities that they face, improving gender relations, and promoting gender equality. That creates a safer world for everyone, and is always to be commended.
Caste Discrimination Consultation — House of Commons, 2016-10-27
Topic: Civil Rights
Justine Greening (Conservative, Centre-right): We have said we will issue a public consultation on how best to provide legal protection against caste discrimination later this year. My hon. Friend takes this issue very seriously and represents his local communities views and concerns in respect of it.
Caste Discrimination Consultation — House of Commons, 2016-10-27
Topic: Civil Rights
Robert John Blackman (Conservative, Centre-right): I thank my right hon. Friend for her answer. In excess of 85% of British Hindus consider having caste as a protected characteristic in equality legislation unnecessary, ill-considered and divisive. Will my right hon. Friend confirm that in the forthcoming consultation she will look at all measures, including the abolition of caste as a protected characteristic in the legislation?
Caste Discrimination Consultation — House of Commons, 2016-10-27
Topic: Civil Rights
Justine Greening (Conservative, Centre-right): This will be an open consultation. We know and understand how sensitive and emotive this subject is, and that there are very strong opinions on both sides of it. We need to look at the best and necessary level of legal protection against caste discrimination, and the findings of that consultation will help inform us on what to do to provide the appropriate legal protection.