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European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 5) Bill — House of Commons, 2019-04-03
Topic: Other
Lindsay Harvey Hoyle (Labour, Centre-left): I must inform the Committee that I have selected the amendments and new clauses as grouped with clauses stand part on the selection paper available in the Vote Office. My provisional grouping and selection of amendments is now available. There will be one group with votes at the end, by 10 pm at the latest, on the lead amendment on which the question has been proposed from the Chair; other amendments to clause 1 selected for separate decision; clause 1 stand part; any amendments to clause 2 selected for separate decision; clause 2 stand part; and any new clauses selected for separate decision I am not going to enter into a debate about my reasons for selecting or not selecting amendments and new clauses to this very narrow, single-topic Bill. We start with amendment 13, with which it will be convenient to discuss amendments to clause 1, clause 1 stand part, amendments to clause 2, clause 2 stand part and new clauses.
European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 5) Bill — House of Commons, 2019-04-03
Topic: Other
Yvette Cooper (Labour, Centre-left): On a point of order, Sir Lindsay. Unfortunately, with the noise of people entering and leaving the Chamber, I did not catch which amendments had been selected, and I wonder whether you could clarify that for the Committee.
European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 5) Bill — House of Commons, 2019-04-03
Topic: Other
Lindsay Harvey Hoyle (Labour, Centre-left): They are amendment 13, amendment 20, amendment 21, Government amendment 22, amendment 1, clause 1 stand part, amendment 14, amendment 6, clause 2 stand part, new clause 4, new clause 5, new clause 7 and Government new clause 13. I hope that that helps the Committee. [Interruption.] Somebody just won the bingo call.
European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 5) Bill — House of Commons, 2019-04-03
Topic: Other
Lindsay Harvey Hoyle (Labour, Centre-left): I thought it was available, and it should be available. If not, it is still being done. I think the problem we have got is that with the tight timescale, we are trying to play catch-up a little bit. That is why I am trying to help.
European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 5) Bill — House of Commons, 2019-04-03
Topic: Other
Lindsay Harvey Hoyle (Labour, Centre-left): I am just trying to see if we can get an indication of where we are up to with the printing and duplication, and why the lists have not been handed out. Nothing is yet forthcoming. Rather than suspend, I will repeat the list and see whether we can make progress with the numbers. The amendments that have been selected are 13, 20—
European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 5) Bill — House of Commons, 2019-04-03
Topic: Other
Lindsay Harvey Hoyle (Labour, Centre-left): We have already had that joke, Mr Linden. Repeat jokes do not count. The other items on the selection list are amendment 21, Government amendment 22, amendment 1, clause 1 stand part, amendment 14, amendment 6, clause 2 stand part, new clause 4, new clause 5, new clause 7 and Government new clause 13. For the benefit of the Committee, I will run through it once more: amendment 13, amendment 20, amendment 21, Government amendment 22, amendment 1, clause 1 stand part, amendment 14, amendment 6, clause 2 stand part, new clause 4, new clause 5, new clause 7 and Government new clause 13. Does that help Members?
European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 5) Bill — House of Commons, 2019-04-03
Topic: Other
Stephen John Doughty (Labour, Centre-left): On a point of order, Sir Lindsay. Thank you for clarifying which amendments you have selected. Will you just be absolutely clear on how they have been grouped? Are we debating them all as one large group or in separate groups?
European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 5) Bill — House of Commons, 2019-04-03
Topic: Other
Mary Helen Creagh (Labour, Centre-left): On a point of order, Sir Lindsay. There are no more lists of amendments available from the Vote Office. Can you ask that more are made available urgently so that Members are able to have some?
European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 5) Bill — House of Commons, 2019-04-03
Topic: Other
Lindsay Harvey Hoyle (Labour, Centre-left): Yes, we are trying to get the lists as quickly as possible, and we are playing a bit of catch-up. We know where we need to start and we could make a start while the documents are being distributed. We are up against it a bit with time. I want to see who wishes to speak, so I am looking around the Chamber to see who will stand.
European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 5) Bill — House of Commons, 2019-04-03
Topic: Other
David George Hanson (Labour, Centre-left): On a point of order, Sir Lindsay. To be helpful and while we are awaiting the formal written list, could you advise us at what stage you will take Third Reading before 10 o’clock? It would be interesting to know how long we have to discuss the amendments, which will be forthcoming shortly.
European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 5) Bill — House of Commons, 2019-04-03
Topic: Other
Lindsay Harvey Hoyle (Labour, Centre-left): If the Committee takes up all the time, there will be no Third Reading. That is up to the Committee, which is why I want to make progress and get to some of the speeches. I am looking around to see who wishes to speak.
European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 5) Bill — House of Commons, 2019-04-03
Topic: Other
Yvette Cooper (Labour, Centre-left): If I may, I will briefly speak to the drafting amendments in my name and that of the right hon. Member for West Dorset (Sir Oliver Letwin). I will respond to the other amendments at a later stage in the debate, once other hon. Members have had an opportunity to speak to their amendments These are two minor drafting amendments. The first simply corrects something in clause 1, page 1, line 6—instead of referring to "section 2", it should refer to "section 1". The second amendment—amendment 14—would ensure that rather than referring to the "2018 Act", the Bill would properly refer to "the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018" These are simply for clarification.
European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 5) Bill — House of Commons, 2019-04-03
Topic: Mixed Topics
Stephen John Doughty (Labour, Centre-left): I entirely agree with what my right hon. Friend was saying before the point of order. Have we not all been in Committees dealing with Government legislation when the Government have tabled at every stage, every day, tens or even hundreds of amendments, even before that legislation goes to the other place? Does she agree that the couple of minor things that have been spotted and are being addressed on this occasion are nothing in comparison with what the Government normally do?
European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 5) Bill — House of Commons, 2019-04-03
Topic: Other
Yvette Cooper (Labour, Centre-left): The right hon. Gentleman is exactly right. Let me clarify the position. There are two references to two different Acts. There is one reference in clause 1(2) to the 2019 Act that this Bill will become, and another reference in clause 2(1), to the Act passed last year.
European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 5) Bill — House of Commons, 2019-04-03
Topic: Other
Lindsay Harvey Hoyle (Labour, Centre-left): Order. Obviously the scope of this debate is quite tight and I am going to allow some flexibility in the discussion, but we do not want to concentrate on something that is not even down on the Order Paper tonight. So by all means I will allow some freedom, but we should not open up the debate too far.
European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 5) Bill — House of Commons, 2019-04-03
Topic: Other
Lindsay Harvey Hoyle (Labour, Centre-left): Order. I think in fairness that it is my judgment that we will take. Thank you for your advice, but actually it will be the opposite way, not the way the hon. Gentleman is trying to open up. I have said I will allow flexibility, but I am not going to allow discussion on matters that are not part of tonight’s debate.
European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 5) Bill — House of Commons, 2019-04-03
Topic: Other
Hilary James Benn (Labour, Centre-left): I want to pick up on a comment the hon. Gentleman made a moment ago. As I understand it, amendment 21 would delete subsections (6) and (7) and amendment 20 seeks a maximum extension length of 20 June 2019, but subsection (5) would remain. On my reading of the Bill, that would allow the House to amend the 30 June date that he seeks to insist is the latest date that the Prime Minister could put in any motion provided for under subsection (2). Will he just clarify whether that would be the result of his amendments?
European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 5) Bill — House of Commons, 2019-04-03
Topic: Other
Gareth Craig Snell (Labour, Centre-left): Without wishing to cause a row with my right hon. Friend the Member for Leeds Central (Hilary Benn), I agree with the interpretation of the hon. Member for Camborne and Redruth (George Eustice). It has always been the case in this place that a motion cannot trump legislation, so the Bill would have primacy if the motion included a date that was later than that on the face of the Bill. While I understand my right hon. Friend’s misinterpretation, I would interpret the Bill in the same way as the hon. Gentleman.
European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 5) Bill — House of Commons, 2019-04-03
Topic: Other
Seema Malhotra-Saluja (Labour, Centre-left): I understand the hon. Gentleman’s perspective on the politics of this and the policy outcome, which would be a limit of 30 June in terms of what this Bill could achieve. I want to clarify something with him, because my interpretation of his amendment is more in line with that of my right hon. Friend the Member for Leeds Central (Hilary Benn). Amendment 20 would put a date of "no later than 30 June 2019" in clause 1(3). It seems to me that that is superseded by subsection (5), and if the hon. Gentleman wanted to achieve his intended outcome he should have tabled a further amendment, proposing another date in subsection (5). He has not done so it would override and be able to amend a date in a motion tabled under subsection (2).
European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 5) Bill — House of Commons, 2019-04-03
Topic: Other
Seema Malhotra-Saluja (Labour, Centre-left): The hon. Gentleman is being generous in accepting interventions. I fear that the interpretation of his amendment is not what he intends. This is not about the rights or wrongs of the date, but what his amendment seems to do, which is to put a cap and an end date on what the Prime Minister may put to the House, but not on an amendment to her motion that the House could seek. That is the difference between subsections (3) and (5).
European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 5) Bill — House of Commons, 2019-04-03
Topic: Other
Rosalie Winterton (Labour, Centre-left): I think the hon. Gentleman is expressing a debatable opinion about the Bill. The Public Bill Office is always available to advise Members on the drafting of the Bill. I think we will leave it there.
European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 5) Bill — House of Commons, 2019-04-03
Topic: Mixed Topics
David George Hanson (Labour, Centre-left): The hon. Lady speaks much more sense about this matter than I could possibly do, because she is up to date on the situation, but that is clear to me. Let me take the example mentioned by my right hon. Friend the Member for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford—the European arrest warrant. We use the arrest warrant on numerous occasions to bring people who have committed crimes in the Republic into Northern Ireland and vice versa. If that is not in place, and in a no-deal scenario it would not be in place, the situation would be poorer, and we have no clarity on that whatsoever. The security of Northern Ireland would be in a worse place than it is now, and I am not prepared to vote for that.
European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 5) Bill — House of Commons, 2019-04-03
Topic: Other
Hilary James Benn (Labour, Centre-left): On a point of order, Mr Speaker. I wonder whether it would be in order to place on record the House’s thanks to, in particular, the Clerks and the staff of the Vote Office for the way in which they have received, marshalled, typed up, printed and distributed the papers that enabled us to consider the Bill this evening.
Packaging: Extended Producer Responsibility — House of Commons, 2019-04-03
Topic: Mixed Topics
Rachael Helen Maskell (Labour, Centre-left): I am glad my hon. Friend has secured this debate. Having gone plastic-free during Lent, plastic is now just staring at me everywhere, and I have started working with manufacturers in York. Does she agree that we must start through the food supply chain in particular and work with manufacturers to see packaging change?
Packaging: Extended Producer Responsibility — House of Commons, 2019-04-03
Topic: Mixed Topics
Wayne David (Labour, Centre-left): Straws can provide examples of extremely good practice. A company in my constituency has won a £1 million contract to provide paper straws to McDonald’s. Does my hon. Friend agree that that is a good example?
Development Co-operation: EU — House of Commons, 2019-05-01
Topic: Mixed Topics
Alexander James Jorden Norris (Labour, Centre-left): With time running out, the Government need to arrange a large volume of trade deals in a short period of time—deals they said would be easy but are not. There is a concern that to do so they may promise aid spending as an inducement to a favourable trade deal. Will the Secretary of State today commit to aid spending continuing to be untied and always being based on need alone, rather than for our own commercial and trade ends?
British Steel: EU Emissions Trading Compliance — House of Commons, 2019-05-01
Topic: Mixed Topics
Rachel Jane Reeves (Labour, Centre-left): I welcome the Secretary of State’s decision. Without it, there would be huge job losses in the industry. This crisis at British Steel has been caused by the uncertainty over our future membership of the EU’s emissions trading scheme. Given that half of steel manufacturing in this country is exported to the EU, our relationship with the EU matters hugely for the future. Why did the Government allow us to get into the position where British Steel had to pay upfront for its allowances, even though we remain a member of the EU today? Will the Government confirm what the liability to the ETS will be of British Steel and other UK steel producers should we leave the EU without a deal?
British Steel: EU Emissions Trading Compliance — House of Commons, 2019-05-01
Topic: Mixed Topics
Nicholas Desmond John Smith (Labour, Centre-left): British Steel workers will be glad that the Government have stepped in here, but in Wales 9,000 jobs rely on this whole sector, and many workers and their families in south Wales will be troubled by the wider situation. Can the Secretary of State please confirm whether the new fleet solid support ships will be built with UK steel?
Points of Order — House of Commons, 2019-05-01
Topic: Civil Rights
Catherine Jane Smith (Labour, Centre-left): On a point of order, Mr Speaker. You will be aware that tomorrow in the local elections voters in Watford, Mid Sussex and North West Leicestershire will be required to take their poll cards to the polling station to cast their vote under the Government’s voter ID trial. You may also be aware that European poll cards have also dropped—before the local elections—in these three authorities. I have had an indication that the European poll cards will not be accepted tomorrow for voters who turn up in these three districts. Have you had any indication that a Minister will attend the House to clarify the situation for voters who perhaps mistakenly take the wrong poll card to the polling station tomorrow and are turned away and denied their right to vote?
Environment and Climate Change — House of Commons, 2019-05-01
Topic: Mixed Topics
Andrew Francis Slaughter (Labour, Centre-left): At the opposite extreme to my right hon. Friend’s bicycle, the largest source of carbon emissions in the country is of course Heathrow airport. Given that, is it not folly to be going ahead with a third runway at Heathrow? Would not it be a clear indication from the Secretary of State today if he said the Government were not pursuing that course?
Environment and Climate Change — House of Commons, 2019-05-01
Topic: Mixed Topics
Jeremy Bernard Corbyn (Labour, Centre-left): The right hon. Gentleman makes a fair point. In a former life, I was a trade union organiser and negotiator. Even then we were discussing with the pension fund trustees how they would have environmentally sustainable investments and we would use that as a way of promoting green energy and such issues. I urge people, many millions of whom have shares in pension funds, to do exactly that.
Environment and Climate Change — House of Commons, 2019-05-01
Topic: Other
Jeremy Bernard Corbyn (Labour, Centre-left): The whole point of today’s debate is to declare an emergency to focus the attention of all of us on the sheer urgency of the issue because it is not going to go away; it is going to get considerably worse unless we act and set an example to other nations to also act.
Environment and Climate Change — House of Commons, 2019-05-01
Topic: Immigration
Christopher John Bryant (Labour, Centre-left): Does my right hon. Friend agree that one of the most disturbing aspects of this climate emergency is that some of the poorest people in the world live on the land that is closest to the rising sea levels? Anyone who is concerned about mass migration today should be truly worried about this crisis, because millions of those people are going to be travelling many miles to try to find a safe place with clean drinking water where they can make a home for themselves.
Environment and Climate Change — House of Commons, 2019-05-01
Topic: Mixed Topics
Anna Rhiannon McMorrin (Labour, Centre-left): The Secretary of State speaks with his characteristically warm words, but words are not followed by action across the Government. Subsidies are being cut from onshore wind and solar, while VAT on solar has been increased. We need to see real action across every single Department and a responsibility on every single Minister to cut carbon.
Environment and Climate Change — House of Commons, 2019-05-01
Topic: Mixed Topics
Christopher John Bryant (Labour, Centre-left): Home energy conservation is going to be vital if we are to achieve these goals. Many of the poorest households in the land unfortunately live in homes that are very difficult to insulate through traditional means. Is it not time that we introduced a new scheme that makes it possible for people like my constituents to do their bit?
Environment and Climate Change — House of Commons, 2019-05-01
Topic: Other
Edward Samuel Miliband (Labour, Centre-left): I agree absolutely with the former Secretary of State I want to finish by saying this. I reflect on our cross- party consensus in this country, which is incredibly important. It was created in part thanks to David Cameron’s advocacy of the issue in the 2000s, and it is important that we maintain it. However, we should allow this: there will be different visions of how we get to the same goal. There will be a more socialist vision and a more Conservative one. Part of the grammar of politics that we have to learn is to argue while sharing the same objectives—maintain the cross-party consensus, but have discussions and arguments about how we can meet our goals. Finally, I should say that there is a downside scenario, which is that future generations will say that we were the last generation who did not get it and we failed to act. But there is an upside, too: if we act, we can create better lives for those future generations.
Environment and Climate Change — House of Commons, 2019-05-01
Topic: Mixed Topics
Preet Kaur Gill (Labour, Centre-left): I am delighted to congratulate the Welsh Government on that The Government have blocked onshore wind, Britain’s cheapest form of energy. According to SERA, the reintroduction of onshore wind would cut another £1.6 billion off the collective electricity bill, but rather than act, the Government have chosen to block onshore wind. Sir David Attenborough has said that climate change is humanity’s "greatest threat in thousands of years", yet the Government keep signing up to things that they fail to deliver. I call on Members on all Benches to back Labour’s motion and take the necessary action to address this threat nationally and internationally, to protect the planet and the climate for all future generations.
Environment and Climate Change — House of Commons, 2019-05-01
Topic: Mixed Topics
Liam Dominic Byrne (Labour, Centre-left): It was 307 years ago that Thomas Newcomen demonstrated the first working steam engine up in Dudley Castle. It was put to work pretty rapidly, pumping the water out of Lord Dudley’s coal mines. Over the next three centuries not only did James Watt and Matthew Boulton go on to perfect the steam engine in Handsworth, but Frank Whittle led the country into the steam age From our region, we are very proud of our role in this nation’s industrial revolution, but we are conscious too that, as the region that sparked the carbon revolution, we have a moral responsibility now to lead the zero-carbon revolution. That task would be an awful lot easier if the Government could provide to our region four basic ideas—four basic bits of support. First, on energy, we produce just 0.3% of the country’s renewable energy. It is pretty difficult to install onshore wind in a place as dense as the west midlands, but we could absolutely roll out solar. It would be much easier if the Government reintroduced the feed-in tariffs that they so unwisely eliminated just a few years ago Secondly, transport is the biggest source of carbon emissions in our region. As the Secretary of State knows, we want to be the world centre of battery technology and the electric vehicles revolution in our region. That would be much easier if the Secretary of State paid heed to the Select Committee report and sorted out the muddle around the elimination of carbon-emitting engines and went for its recommendation of 2032 as the deadline for getting rid of carbon cars or vehicles Thirdly, on homes, we could decarbonise our housing stock much faster and lift 300,000 people out of energy poverty if we had control of eco-funding at a regional level. Finally, when it comes to replanting our forests, we should be insisting that our airports become carbon-neutral and ask them to pay an endowment to help us replant the Arden Forest and let it reconnect with the national forest planted just north of Lichfield. These are all things that we can do. We want to lead. We need a Government who help us.
Environment and Climate Change — House of Commons, 2019-05-01
Topic: Other
Nicholas Hugh Brown (Labour, Centre-left): On a point of order, Mr Speaker. In view of your statement to the House earlier about the results of the Peterborough recall petition, I hope it is helpful, if you will allow me, to inform the House that I will move the writ for the by-election at start of business tomorrow.
Children’s Funeral Fund — House of Commons, 2019-05-01
Topic: Other
Carolyn Harris (Labour, Centre-left): Thank you, Mr Speaker. Anyone who has visited my office here in Westminster will be able to testify that one of its walls is chaotically adorned with a vision of my world. There are newspaper articles, thank-you cards and notes from colleagues and constituents to remind me that I have an army of support and that campaigns can be won. There are family photos and pictures of Swansea to cheer me up on the difficult days—[Interruption.]
Children’s Funeral Fund — House of Commons, 2019-05-01
Topic: Other
James Dolan Cunningham (Labour, Centre-left): My hon. Friend has been a sturdy campaigner for this cause for a long time. I am glad the right hon. Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Mr Duncan Smith) recognises what a great champion she has been for such a great cause. I wish her every success in future.