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Proxy Voting — House of Commons, 2018-07-18
Topic: Other
Andrea Jacqueline Leadsom (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Gentleman will be aware that the issues of how we vote are looked at periodically, and I am always keen to consider the well-known views of him and his colleagues on electronic voting. Generally speaking, the House tends not to agree; its view tends to be that the way we vote currently is the right way. It also tends to consider that the pairing system is effective and useful, and offers the flexibility that all Members want.
Proxy Voting — House of Commons, 2018-07-18
Topic: Mixed Topics
Andrea Jacqueline Leadsom (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend raises important questions that would be part of the debate. Professor Sarah Childs, in "The Good Parliament" report, looked at other legislatures, as I am sure you are aware, Mr Speaker, and found that most—six in total—of the surveyed Parliaments had formal House leave arrangements, those being either general leave provisions or more specific maternity, paternity and parental leave provisions. Three did not but relied on informal party arrangements—Canada, Scotland and Wales. A single Parliament—Sweden—matched the country-level provision for all employees. So they do differ, but he is absolutely right to raise the importance of considering how other legislatures handle this situation.
Proxy Voting — House of Commons, 2018-07-18
Topic: Mixed Topics
Andrea Jacqueline Leadsom (Conservative, Centre-right): I am told by the deputy Chief Whip that in fact the hon. Lady’s pair was not broken by the Government at any time, so if she came into the House, that was her choice. It is important to make that point, given the accusations around. The Government have been very clear that we will honour pairs for baby leave. On the hon. Lady’s other point, as I said it is important that we debate some of these issues by way of a consultation in this place. As she will have heard, having sat through this urgent question, there are different, important and opposing views, so it is important that we have a proper debate.
Proxy Voting — House of Commons, 2018-07-18
Topic: Other
Andrea Jacqueline Leadsom (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend is quite right. The Procedure Committee report proposed that hon. Members taking baby leave should be able to choose between proxy voting and a pair, even from vote to vote, so the complexity would obviously increase; nevertheless it is important that we have choice and flexibility.
Proxy Voting — House of Commons, 2018-07-18
Topic: Other
Andrea Jacqueline Leadsom (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Lady is being extremely unfair to my right hon. Friend the Member for Great Yarmouth. It is absolutely clear that he was unaware that he was breaking a pair. It was an administrative error.
Proxy Voting — House of Commons, 2018-07-18
Topic: Mixed Topics
Nigel Paul Huddleston (Conservative, Centre-right): Does the Leader of the House share my disappointment, from talking to potential parliamentary candidates, at just how many of them are put off standing for Parliament altogether because of the widely held perception that this place is inconsistent with family life or even the aspiration to a family life? How many potential fantastic MPs have we lost on both sides of the Chamber because of that reputation? Can she assure me that she will do everything she can to make sure that this place becomes friendly for anybody who wants to stand for Parliament, no matter what their stage in life?
Proxy Voting — House of Commons, 2018-07-18
Topic: Civil Rights
Andrea Jacqueline Leadsom (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend raises a really important point. We need many more people to come forward, particularly women, and to be compatible with good, solid family life, it is vital that we look at how we manage things in this House and improve on it.
Proxy Voting — House of Commons, 2018-07-18
Topic: Mixed Topics
James Stephen Heappey (Conservative, Centre-right): I echo the enthusiasm expressed by colleagues across the House for a look at our voting processes and how we might make them more family-friendly. In the meantime, does my right hon. Friend agree that the pairing system can be transparent? Those who are paired can say that they are paired and with whom they are paired, as, indeed, the hon. Member for East Dunbartonshire (Jo Swinson) did yesterday on social media.
Proxy Voting — House of Commons, 2018-07-18
Topic: Other
Andrea Jacqueline Leadsom (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend is right. Let me reiterate the undertaking by the Government Whips Office to provide even greater process, so that individuals who are paired will be specifically told the duration of the pair and with whom they are paired. I think that that will also reduce the number of errors. I can only say again that what has happened is extremely regrettable, and that the Whips are very apologetic about the error.
Proxy Voting — House of Commons, 2018-07-18
Topic: Mixed Topics
Andrea Jacqueline Leadsom (Conservative, Centre-right): Let me say again that I am absolutely committed to ensuring that women will be able to spend time with their new babies, and the fathers, including in cases of adoption. It is vital that they are able to do so. I have made it extremely clear that I will arrange for a debate during the September sitting, and we can then make fast progress.
Proxy Voting — House of Commons, 2018-07-18
Topic: Mixed Topics
Andrea Jacqueline Leadsom (Conservative, Centre-right): I fundamentally disagree with the hon. Lady’s assessment, but I absolutely agree with the nursery workers whom she mentioned about the vital importance of women being treated fairly. What she is seeking to do is simply to politicise this issue, at a time when the Government have made it absolutely clear that there are guaranteed pairs for anyone on baby leave and that what happened yesterday was an error.
Proxy Voting — House of Commons, 2018-07-18
Topic: Civil Rights
Andrea Jacqueline Leadsom (Conservative, Centre-right): We are on our second female Prime Minister. In case the hon. Lady had not noticed, the Leader of the House of Commons is female. In case the hon. Lady had not noticed, the Leader of the House of Lords is female. What is very clear to those on this side of the House is that it is her party that has a problem with women.
Space Policy — House of Commons, 2018-07-18
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Order. I am not knowledgeable about these important matters, but if my memory serves me, the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (Jamie Stone) is concerned principally with the vertical, rather than the horizontal.
Points of Order — House of Commons, 2018-07-18
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Well, maybe I erred on the side of generosity. I will treat of the point in more detail, because it is of importance to the House, but let me say two things to the right hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington (Tom Brake) The right hon. Gentleman, the former Foreign Secretary, was absolutely in order to request that he be allowed to make a personal statement, and utterly in order also in its delivery. Secondly—forgive me, colleagues, but it is important for the authority of the House that this point be made—I, too, was absolutely right to allow him to make that personal statement, and it would have been quite wrong for me to seek to stand in his way Good order has applied but, in so far as the right hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington is interested not in point scoring, as I am sure he is not, but in asking a genuine question of the Chair, let me say to him on the point of procedure that it is the long-standing practice of the House that Members may make a personal statement with the leave of the Speaker. It is not especially common in recent times for such requests to be made, but when they are made, it is right that they should be acceded to by the Chair Moreover, I note that the former Foreign Secretary, former Leader of the House and former Deputy Prime Minister, the late Sir Geoffrey Howe, resigned on 1 November 1990—I remember it well—and delivered a personal statement on 13 November 1990, so nothing disorderly, nothing irregular and, in procedural terms, nothing objectionable has occurred. I thank the right hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington, and it was perfectly legitimate for him to raise the point of order, but I think it right that I leave it there.
Points of Order — House of Commons, 2018-07-18
Topic: Mixed Topics
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): I thank the hon. Gentleman for his point of order, and I respect the sincerity with which he speaks and the extensive interest he takes in international affairs. What I would say to him, in all seriousness, is that the responsibility of the Chair for oversight of the sub judice rule applies in the context of cases in the British courts. I am satisfied that nothing disorderly or threatening to a British judicial process has transpired In so far as the hon. Gentleman wanted to make a wider point, I think he knows that he has succeeded in doing so.
Domestic Gas and Electricity (Tariff Cap) Bill — House of Commons, 2018-07-18
Topic: Domestic Commerce
Stephen Charles Kerr (Conservative, Centre-right): Let me speak in relation to the amendment in lieu, which says: "customers who appear to the Authority"— that is Ofgem— "to be vulnerable by reason of their financial or other circumstances are in need of protection." How will the data be made available for anyone to be able to make that assessment, because, currently, there is a restriction in the availability of that data to pinpoint the help that is necessary?
Domestic Gas and Electricity (Tariff Cap) Bill — House of Commons, 2018-07-18
Topic: Domestic Commerce
Claire Louise Perry (Conservative, Centre-right): I pay tribute to my hon. Friend’s work as a member of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee and his doughty championing of consumers. He will be aware that the Government have taken through another piece of legislation, which was required to ensure that the regulator can work with Government datasets in order accurately to pinpoint vulnerable customers. I am sure that the whole House will be pleased to know that if that legislation has not yet received Royal Assent, it will do imminently. I look to my officials to ensure that that is the case.
Domestic Gas and Electricity (Tariff Cap) Bill — House of Commons, 2018-07-18
Topic: Domestic Commerce
Rebecca Faye Clark (Pow) (Conservative, Centre-right): On that note, does the Minister believe that the Bill will narrow down competition, and thereby affect prices, or increase it? Competition is generally viewed as good for a market, because one tends to get lower prices as companies try to attract customers.
Domestic Gas and Electricity (Tariff Cap) Bill — House of Commons, 2018-07-18
Topic: Mixed Topics
James Stephen Heappey (Conservative, Centre-right): I very much agree with my hon. Friend. Rushing into the deployment of SMETS2 meters before the technology has been properly proven and the Data Communications Company is fully up and running might lead to a collapse in consumer confidence in smart meters generally, which would have an adverse effect on the smart programme.
Domestic Gas and Electricity (Tariff Cap) Bill — House of Commons, 2018-07-18
Topic: Domestic Commerce
Rebecca Faye Clark (Pow) (Conservative, Centre-right): I welcome the Bill, as it places consumers at its heart. That is really what we are talking about. In particular, I welcome the amendment in lieu, which is a tweak but a valuable tweak that makes the Bill really work. I also reiterate what my hon. Friend the Member for Wells (James Heappey) said. How wonderful it is to have unity in the Chamber after these last few days. It is welcome and a lovely feeling.
Future Relationship Between the UK and the EU — House of Commons, 2018-07-18
Topic: Mixed Topics
John Alan Redwood (Conservative, Centre-right): Will my right hon. Friend confirm that a very large number of components and materials come into this country from non-EU sources every day and fuel just-in-time systems alongside things from within the EU, proving that there is not a border issue about running just-in-time without being within the EU ring fence?
Future Relationship Between the UK and the EU — House of Commons, 2018-07-18
Topic: Domestic Commerce
Dominic Rennie Raab (Conservative, Centre-right): I understand the point my right hon. Friend makes. What we are trying to do, and what I think this model does achieve, is to make sure that any potential disruption to businesses through the supply chains is minimised to the lowest degree. That is the aim, but I do understand the point he makes.
Future Relationship Between the UK and the EU — House of Commons, 2018-07-18
Topic: Mixed Topics
Dominic Rennie Raab (Conservative, Centre-right): I think that, in the hon. Gentleman’s own elegant way, that was a backhanded welcome for these proposals to minimise any risks in that regard, and what we should now all do in all parts of this Chamber is not call for second referendums or returning to the customs union, but get behind the Government’s plan and show a united front so we get the very best deal for everyone in this country.
Future Relationship Between the UK and the EU — House of Commons, 2018-07-18
Topic: Immigration
Dominic Rennie Raab (Conservative, Centre-right): I shall indeed, but I appreciate the support This is the ambitious and balanced approach reflected in the White Paper. As well as sensibly managing the risks of disruption to trade with our EU friends, it frees the UK to trade with greater vim and vigour with the rest of the world, and particularly to capture the growth markets and opportunities of the future. It will allow us to seize the opportunities for more liberal and energetic free trade arrangements with the export markets of the future from Mexico to Japan, which is important for creating the jobs of the future, and for cutting the costs of goods in this country to ease the cost of living for lower and middle-income families As we leave the EU, free movement will end. Our immigration policy will be set not in Brussels but by hon. Members elected by the people of this country in this House. We will design a new immigration system that works in the national interest: a system that enables us to control the numbers of people coming to live in this country and that places stronger security checks at the border. We will end free movement, but that does not mean pulling up a drawbridge or turning away the talent we need, and indeed want, for the UK to be an outward-looking nation attractive to investment and open to business In line with the arrangements we will negotiate with our close trading partners around the world, the White Paper makes it clear that we want to support businesses being able to transfer to their UK offices those from the EU with the bespoke expertise or experience required to deliver services here. We also want people to be able to travel without a visa between the UK and the EU for temporary business activity. We want families and youngsters to travel for holidays and tourism, and students to study at university across the continent. We can agree these common-sense reciprocal arrangements while regaining control of our immigration policy. That is the balanced approach that will best serve the UK.
Future Relationship Between the UK and the EU — House of Commons, 2018-07-18
Topic: Immigration
Robert James MacGillivray Neill (Conservative, Centre-right): I welcome my right hon. Friend to his post. Will he bear it in mind that there must be linkage between the very welcome liberal approach to visa regimes that he mentions and, in relation to professional services, mutual recognition of qualifications so that lawyers and other professional advisers can operate on the current fly-in, fly-out policy that is critical to the City of London and other financial sectors?
Future Relationship Between the UK and the EU — House of Commons, 2018-07-18
Topic: Other
Mark Andrew Pritchard (Conservative, Centre-right): The right hon. and learned Gentleman is a fair-minded individual and he is doing a great job of bringing the Government to account over the Chequers plan, but of course he and his party agree with parts of that plan. Would he like to say what parts he agrees with, rather than just those he disagrees with?
Future Relationship Between the UK and the EU — House of Commons, 2018-07-18
Topic: Other
Steven John Baker (Conservative, Centre-right): As you know, Mr Speaker, I have been asked to keep to a time, and that term is sufficiently familiar to people in this House and across the country so I will not spend minutes defining it. It is the great class of people who govern our country, whether in politics, the civil service or the media, and those who govern our large companies.
Future Relationship Between the UK and the EU — House of Commons, 2018-07-18
Topic: Other
Steven John Baker (Conservative, Centre-right): No. I am making my points gently and trying to do so in a spirit of co-operation. I heard the hon. Gentleman accuse me from a sedentary position of Trumpism, and I am not willing to go down that path with him.
Future Relationship Between the UK and the EU — House of Commons, 2018-07-18
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Order. There is a rather discordant atmosphere in the House. This is a matter upon which there are passionately held and differing points of view, but Members are entitled to be heard with courtesy. I simply reference the fact that the hon. Gentleman is an immediate-past Minister and he must be heard, and heard with courtesy.
Future Relationship Between the UK and the EU — House of Commons, 2018-07-18
Topic: Mixed Topics
Steven John Baker (Conservative, Centre-right): I agree with my hon. Friend, but I would extend his remarks by saying that it is clear, across the European Union, that the project is running into the problem, as its proponents have said, that it lacks democratic consent for what is being done. This is a profound problem that should alarm all of us If we look at Hungary, we see that almost 70% of the vote share is for parties that could be considered populist. In Germany, Alternative für Deutschland has risen from obscurity to be the third largest party, forcing Frau Merkel into a coalition—an unwanted coalition—to keep it out. In the Netherlands, the major parties have announced that they would do everything they could to keep the so-called Freedom party out of power, refusing to form coalitions with it despite the Freedom party getting the second largest share of the vote. I am very grateful to those in the Italian Parliament for passing a helpful motion, but I hope they will not be offended if I say that their parties are not necessarily considered mainstream. The rejection of the status quo in Italy is indicative of a trend right across Europe where, politically, the project is being rejected On the economy, I would just say that, according to the House of Commons Library, the European Central Bank has, in total to date, purchased €2.5 trillion of assets, which includes €2 trillion of Government debt. By the end of 2018, the figure is scheduled to be €2.6 trillion. That is equivalent to about 23% of annual eurozone GDP. This is the most extraordinary economic and monetary period in history. I personally believe that the distortions sown by quantitative easing on such a scale will unwind, and will do so in a very harmful way. That is the first problem faced by those who propose a high-alignment scenario such as this one. It seeks to cling on to institutions and a kind of political economy that are running out of public consent and have economic difficulties.
Future Relationship Between the UK and the EU — House of Commons, 2018-07-18
Topic: Civil Rights
Luke Patrick Graham (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Gentleman is talking a lot about respecting other nations, but does he not find it slightly ironic that someone from a party that is based on dividing itself from the country that it currently exists in is then talking about respect for other nations?
Future Relationship Between the UK and the EU — House of Commons, 2018-07-18
Topic: Other
Eleanor Fulton Laing (Conservative, Centre-right): I understand the right hon. Gentleman’s point, but the hon. Member for Glenrothes (Peter Grant) is setting out the context of his remarks. What he says is, of course, not a matter for me, but if he exceeds the parameters of the debate, I will stop him and insist that he stay within them. At the moment, I think that he is erring a little but will soon come back to the main purpose of the debate. I am also certain that he, appreciating that a lot of people wish to speak and that his speech is not time limited, will not take an awful lot longer.
Future Relationship Between the UK and the EU — House of Commons, 2018-07-18
Topic: Other
Luke Patrick Graham (Conservative, Centre-right): On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. The hon. Gentleman is misinterpreting the British constitution. There are Scottish Members of Parliament here, representing our constituencies and representing Scotland. The hon. Gentleman is suggesting that there is no sovereignty of this place over Scotland. While we still have MPs in this place, this place is sovereign. The hon. Gentleman is out of order, and he is not telling the truth to all the people who are in the Public Gallery today.
Future Relationship Between the UK and the EU — House of Commons, 2018-07-18
Topic: Mixed Topics
Eleanor Fulton Laing (Conservative, Centre-right): I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for correcting his language. "Misinterpretation" I can allow. Of course, the matter of sovereignty is subject to many interpretations—indeed, volumes have been written about it—and it is not for me to judge whose interpretation of the meaning of sovereignty is correct, but the hon. Member for Glenrothes (Peter Grant) is not out of order in what he is saying.
Future Relationship Between the UK and the EU — House of Commons, 2018-07-18
Topic: Other
Alexander John Gervase Chalk (Conservative, Centre-right): My right hon. Friend makes an excellent point. Does he agree with the maxim of the former President of the United States, Lyndon Baines Johnson, that the first rule of politics is that its practitioners must be able to count? That is so important when we come to consider our debates over the coming weeks.
Future Relationship Between the UK and the EU — House of Commons, 2018-07-18
Topic: Domestic Commerce
Robert James MacGillivray Neill (Conservative, Centre-right): I entirely agree with what my right hon. Friend says. Does he recognise that that is also the sentiment of businesses in this country, from manufacturing through to the key financial services sector? Does he also agree that ultimately the Conservative party is a pragmatic party rather than a rigid one, and imperfect though any deal or proposal may be, it is worth going for?