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European Union (Withdrawal) Bill — House of Commons, 2017-12-13
Topic: Other
Antoinette Geraldine Sherratt (Sandbach) (Conservative, Centre-right): On a point of order, Sir David. I am not able to hear what the hon. Lady is saying because behind me there seems to be an inordinate racket being made by one of my colleagues. I wonder whether it would be in order for you, Sir David, to make the point clear that this is an incredibly important debate and Members of Parliament should be able to hear what is being said.
European Union (Withdrawal) Bill — House of Commons, 2017-12-13
Topic: Other
David Anthony Andrew Amess (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Lady is entirely right. We should be courteous to each other. I should also add, while I am on my feet, that I said at the start that with so many people wishing to speak, if people spoke for seven or eight minutes each, everyone would be called. It is now down to three or four minutes.
European Union (Withdrawal) Bill — House of Commons, 2017-12-13
Topic: Other
Kenneth Clarke (Conservative, Centre-right): Before my right hon. Friend tries to urge us all into withdrawing these amendments and waiting for the Government to bring forward their own amendments on Report, let me say that we have been trying to do that through 70 hours of Committee stage. It is no good regarding the Committee stage of this House as an interesting opportunity for Members of Parliament to talk to each other and for Ministers to get up and say they will think about it; we have two days for Report and Third Reading, and the plain aim of the Government is to just enjoy going through this slightly tumultuous and interesting debate and sail on to the House of Lords with the Bill largely intact as it stands. That has been their obvious tactic from a very early stage.
European Union (Withdrawal) Bill — House of Commons, 2017-12-13
Topic: Other
Edward Vaizey (Conservative, Centre-right): I bow to my right hon. and learned Friend’s wisdom and experience on that point. I am a consensus merchant and simply thought there might be a way forward, but I totally understand that votes might have to be exercised tonight in order to stiffen the Government’s backbone to provide a solution. But nevertheless it has always been the case proposed by my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Beaconsfield that the Government will have an opportunity on Report potentially to alter his amendment.
European Union (Withdrawal) Bill — House of Commons, 2017-12-13
Topic: Other
Dominic Rennie Raab (Conservative, Centre-right): No, I am going to make some progress I know that my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Beaconsfield is engaging with this very seriously and constructively and that he is frustrated, but there is no getting around the timing issue that we have.
European Union (Withdrawal) Bill — House of Commons, 2017-12-13
Topic: Other
Dominic Rennie Raab (Conservative, Centre-right): My right hon. and learned Friend touches on a very important principle. I hope that I will be able to give him satisfaction on that precise point later Having dealt with the technical scope of the power and some illustrations of the scale of what it is going to be used for, and before I address the timing issues, I want to touch on the limitations and parameters—
European Union (Withdrawal) Bill — House of Commons, 2017-12-13
Topic: Other
Oliver Letwin (Conservative, Centre-right): I think that my hon. Friend is suggesting a route to solving the problem raised by my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Beaconsfield (Mr Grieve). Could not the requirement that the resolution be sanctioned by the House before the implementation of those orders be put into a revised version of clause 9 on Report?
European Union (Withdrawal) Bill — House of Commons, 2017-12-13
Topic: Other
Dominic Rennie Raab (Conservative, Centre-right): What I am saying is that my hon. Friend has had an assurance, given by me at the Dispatch Box, that I hope addresses his concern. If hon. Members want to come back on Report with further amendments, I will continue to give them proper consideration. I think all hon. Members who have dealt with me directly have found that I have been true to that commitment.
European Union (Withdrawal) Bill — House of Commons, 2017-12-13
Topic: Other
Robert James MacGillivray Neill (Conservative, Centre-right): I am grateful for that. It was intended as a probing amendment, particularly to ensure that these issues were ventilated. Given the assurances in previous days of the debate, I obviously will not push it. While I am on my feet, however, may I ask the Minister to reflect again on the point made by my hon. Friend the Member for Stafford (Jeremy Lefroy)? I really think that the Government would find a means of resolving these matters if they were to bring forward their own amendment in the form suggested.
European Union (Withdrawal) Bill — House of Commons, 2017-12-13
Topic: Other
Dominic Rennie Raab (Conservative, Centre-right): I thank my hon. Friend for his comments. I hope he understands how, in good faith, I am seeking to engage with hon. Members on all sides of the House. It was my suggestion that the assurance would be made to him. We will reflect further as we lead into Report—
European Union (Withdrawal) Bill — House of Commons, 2017-12-13
Topic: Other
Robert James MacGillivray Neill (Conservative, Centre-right): I mentioned the wrong constituency name. I am sure that my hon. Friend the Member for Stafford would not at all want to be involved in that matter. The Minister knew who I meant. It was my hon. Friend the Member for Stone (Sir William Cash) who made the point, and I hope that the Minister will consider it.
European Union (Withdrawal) Bill — House of Commons, 2017-12-13
Topic: Civil Rights
Dominic Rennie Raab (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend’s point is well made I turn now to equalities legislation. Last week, the Government tabled amendment 391 to schedule 7. My right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Rushcliffe (Mr Clarke) said that the Government had not come back with any amendments in response to requests. This is a clear example of where we have listened and returned. The amendment will require Ministers to state in writing, when using the powers in clauses 7 to 9, whether they amend equalities legislation and that they have "so far as required to do so by equalities legislation, had due regard to the need to eliminate discrimination, harassment, victimisation and any other conduct that is prohibited by or under the Equality Act 2010."
European Union (Withdrawal) Bill — House of Commons, 2017-12-13
Topic: Civil Rights
Dominic Rennie Raab (Conservative, Centre-right): The right hon. Gentleman is quick off the mark. I am about to address his point. When the Bill was introduced, the Government published an equalities analysis of the Bill, and I can reassure the Committee and him—I know that he raised this on a previous day—that, as promised, we will make a similar statement in relation to all other Brexit primary legislation that has been or will be introduced to this House. I pay tribute—if she is here—to my right hon. Friend the Member for Basingstoke (Mrs Miller), the Chair of the Women and Equalities Select Committee, for raising this important issue and for her advice in helping us to address it in a sensible and practical way.
European Union (Withdrawal) Bill — House of Commons, 2017-12-13
Topic: Immigration
Dominic Rennie Raab (Conservative, Centre-right): The problem is that clause 9, although now of residual use and scope, remains vital if we want the smooth Brexit that hon. Members in all parts of the House profess to want In fairness, we have spent a lot of time on those amendments. I want now to turn to amendments 142, 143, 275 and 156 and new clause 38, which seek to restrict the use of clause 9 with respect to citizens’ rights. As the Prime Minister reiterated in her speech in Florence on 22 September and since, we value the contributions of EU citizens living in the UK. We want them to stay. That is why the Government repeatedly made it clear that securing the rights of EU citizens resident in the UK on exit, and equally the rights of UK nationals living on the continent, was a top priority. I am sure the whole House will join me in welcoming the fact that the joint report by the UK and EU negotiators published last Friday forms the basis of the agreement after the first phase of negotiations, which will cover the rights of EU citizens here and British citizens on the continent, giving them the security, the assurances and the confidence they need Again, I acknowledge the vital contribution that EU citizens make to our economy and our social and national life. We will ensure that EU citizens living in the UK at the date to be specified in the light of the negotiations will be able to apply for settled status under UK immigration law once they have completed five years’ residence here. In the light of the agreement reached, I hope that hon. Members will not press those amendments New clause 38 and amendment 156, meanwhile, cover the specific issue of Irish citizens’ rights. Maintaining the common travel area with Ireland, protecting the reciprocal rights of British and Irish citizens, is a primary objective for the UK and has been since the Prime Minister’s Lancaster House speech in January. The common travel area arrangements between the UK and Ireland and the Crown dependencies, and the associated rights, have existed for many years. They pre-date the UK and Ireland’s membership of the European Union. Although it extends to the whole of the UK, the value of the common travel area and associated rights is clearly most felt in Northern Ireland. These arrangements facilitate, among other things, the north-south co-operation provided for in the Good Friday agreement and daily life on the island of Ireland There is a strong appetite on both sides of the border and in all parts of the UK to maintain those rights. They are distinct from EU membership and are already provided for by domestic legislation. The joint report by UK and EU negotiators safeguards these interests. Given that agreement and the strong commitment from both the UK Government and, in fairness, the European Commission that these arrangements are protected and will be protected, new clause 38 and amendment 156 are unnecessary, and I respectfully ask hon. Members not to press them.
European Union (Withdrawal) Bill — House of Commons, 2017-12-13
Topic: Other
Victoria Grace Ford (Conservative, Centre-right): As a new Member, I have listened intently as many Members on both sides of the Committee—some who voted to remain and others who voted to leave—have talked about the fundamental flaws in clause 9. The rest of the world is watching how we regulate at the moment. Will the Minister give an undertaking that the Government will come up with amendments to clause 9 on Report?
European Union (Withdrawal) Bill — House of Commons, 2017-12-13
Topic: Other
Dominic Rennie Raab (Conservative, Centre-right): As I said earlier, clause 9 retains the residual necessity to provide us with agility in these negotiations. I think that I have given the assurances on substance that Conservative Members and, I believe, some Opposition Members wished to hear. If other Members want to table amendments on Report, I will of course continue the dialogue in which I have engaged all along.
European Union (Withdrawal) Bill — House of Commons, 2017-12-13
Topic: Other
Eleanor Fulton Laing (Conservative, Centre-right): Order. The hon. Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant) knows better—and he also knows better than to raise his eyebrows because I have called for order. He does it often enough, and it is not his job.
European Union (Withdrawal) Bill — House of Commons, 2017-12-13
Topic: Other
Dominic Rennie Raab (Conservative, Centre-right): I welcome the chance to reiterate what has already been said and what is already set out in the written ministerial statement: we will guarantee that there will be a meaningful vote in this House, and that none of statutory instruments introduced under clause 9 will enter into force until we have had that meaningful vote. That squarely addresses the substantive issue that my right hon. and learned Friend is getting at. He criticises me for dealing with all the other amendments, but it is only fair in the proper course of parliamentary proceedings to ensure that all amendments from all hon. Members are fairly addressed.
European Union (Withdrawal) Bill — House of Commons, 2017-12-13
Topic: Other
Eleanor Fulton Laing (Conservative, Centre-right): Order. Now that the Minister has spoken and taken a great many interventions, many of the issues before us have been fully discussed. I appreciate there are a lot more amendments to be spoken to, but the Committee will know that a lot of people have just risen to indicate that they wish to speak, and we have less than an hour and a half left I cannot impose a time limit in Committee, but if hon. Members speak for more than three minutes, they are depriving someone else of the opportunity to speak. That might indeed be the intention of some hon. Members, and there are many hon. Members who prefer to listen to their own voice than to give any time to others. We shall see in the next hour and a half which is which I am sure I can rely on Seema Malhotra to behave properly.
European Union (Withdrawal) Bill — House of Commons, 2017-12-13
Topic: Other
Bernard Christison Jenkin (Conservative, Centre-right): The right hon. Lady knows as well as I do that the intention is to try to conclude an agreement by October 2018, but, again, there is no guarantee of that fact, in which case the resolution will be tabled soon after 2018. May I just point out that amendment 7, proposed by my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Beaconsfield, is trying to create a meaningful vote by turning this resolution of both Houses into a statute?
European Union (Withdrawal) Bill — House of Commons, 2017-12-13
Topic: Other
Bernard Christison Jenkin (Conservative, Centre-right): This is not the moment to try to defeat the Government, when there is another opportunity to amend the Bill at a later date, if a satisfactory discussion cannot be held. My right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Beaconsfield has been very conciliatory.
European Union (Withdrawal) Bill — House of Commons, 2017-12-13
Topic: Other
Anna Mary Soubry (Conservative, Centre-right): On a point of order, Mrs Laing. I will put up with all sorts of things, but I will not have an hon. Member saying that I have said things that I have not said. Will my hon. Friend retract what he said, because I have not said, "It’s too late"? What I have said is that we have been speaking to the Government for months. This matter was first raised in this place in February and we are still waiting for a resolution.
European Union (Withdrawal) Bill — House of Commons, 2017-12-13
Topic: Other
Eleanor Fulton Laing (Conservative, Centre-right): The right hon. Lady knows that that is not a point of order. It is a point of debate. The hon. Member for Harwich and North Essex (Mr Jenkin) is about to conclude his speech, and the more that other hon. Members shout at him and interrupt him, the less chance other Members will have to speak.
European Union (Withdrawal) Bill — House of Commons, 2017-12-13
Topic: Other
Antoinette Geraldine Sherratt (Sandbach) (Conservative, Centre-right): Does the hon. Gentleman agree that it is deeply insulting for those who have time and again voted against their Prime Minister and their Government to suggest in this crucial Bill, which will help to set the future course of this country, that it would be wrong for us to do the proper scrutiny and to apply for votes in this House?
European Union (Withdrawal) Bill — House of Commons, 2017-12-13
Topic: Domestic Commerce
John Charles Baron (Conservative, Centre-right): In a second; I will tell my hon. Friend when I am ready Such a limbo would not be business-friendly as it would continue to create uncertainty when business wants certainty on a deal for making investment decisions. I now give way to my hon. Friend.
European Union (Withdrawal) Bill — House of Commons, 2017-12-13
Topic: Mixed Topics
Dominic Rennie Raab (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend is making an excellent speech. Let me say to him that—reflecting the mood of the Committee, having taken advice, and, in particular, having listened very carefully to my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Beaconsfield (Mr Grieve) and my right hon. Friend the Member for West Dorset (Sir Oliver Letwin)—the Government are willing to return on Report with an amendment on the face of the Bill clarifying the undertaking and assurance that I gave in my speech that statutory instruments under clause 9 will not come into force until we have had a meaningful vote in Parliament.
European Union (Withdrawal) Bill — House of Commons, 2017-12-13
Topic: Other
Kevin Paul Hollinrake (Conservative, Centre-right): I hope that the Minister’s intervention will satisfy some of my colleagues Let me end by saying that I will be supporting the Government this evening. In my view, it is time for us to grit our teeth and simply get on with it.
European Union (Withdrawal) Bill — House of Commons, 2017-12-13
Topic: Other
Dominic Charles Roberts Grieve (Conservative, Centre-right): While I was briefly out of the Chamber, an announcement was made of a Government concession, but I have to say, it is too late. I am sorry, but you cannot treat the House in this fashion. My hon. Friend the Member for Eddisbury (Antoinette Sandbach) may agree with me that the best way of getting progress in this area is by moving amendment 7 and thereafter we can co-operate with the Government in trying to achieve its aim.
European Union (Withdrawal) Bill — House of Commons, 2017-12-13
Topic: Other
Anna Mary Soubry (Conservative, Centre-right): Does the hon. Gentleman agree that a moment comes in one’s life when, on the most important issue that this nation has faced in decades, we have to set aside party differences and even party loyalty and be true to our principles and to what we believe in? It could be that that moment is now.
European Union (Withdrawal) Bill — House of Commons, 2017-12-13
Topic: Other
Dominic Rennie Raab (Conservative, Centre-right): I am delighted to intervene again and, reflecting the mood of the House, I can tell my hon. Friend that we are willing to return on Report to put an amendment on the face of the Bill making it crystal clear that statutory instruments under clause 9 will not enter into force until we have had a meaningful vote in Parliament.
European Union (Withdrawal) Bill — House of Commons, 2017-12-13
Topic: Other
Kenneth Clarke (Conservative, Centre-right): My understanding is that the Minister has just said that the Government will use clause 9, and will start legislating statutory instruments, long before the due day; it is just, having been legislated, they will not come into force until the due day. That is some kind of concession, but does the right hon. Lady agree that something better might be arrived at in the later stages of this Bill?
European Union (Withdrawal) Bill — House of Commons, 2017-12-13
Topic: Other
Charles Ashley Rupert Walker (Conservative, Centre-right): It is wonderful to see so many former Ministers on the Conservative Benches discovering their love of parliamentary sovereignty when they are no longer on the ministerial merry-go-round. I have far greater respect in this place for those parliamentarians who have never held ministerial office and actually respect this place, even when things are not going their way.
European Union (Withdrawal) Bill — House of Commons, 2017-12-13
Topic: Other
Desmond Angus Swayne (Conservative, Centre-right): I have a great deal of affection and respect for the hon. Member for Nottingham East (Mr Leslie), and he has drawn attention to a perfectly proper area of concern, to which, strangely, his remedy is merely a report—but then the mask slipped. We have heard all this sanctimonious guff this afternoon about the need for this House to take back control and about proper scrutiny—everything we heard in the earlier debates —but now we see the real motive. Of course he was assisted by others, whom comrade Lenin would have properly referred to as "useful idiots", but now the mask has slipped The real motive—the hon. Gentleman made it absolutely explicit—is to reopen a question that he does not believe was given sufficient attention at the referendum. That has just been confirmed by the hon. Member for Swansea East—
European Union (Withdrawal) Bill — House of Commons, 2017-12-13
Topic: Civil Rights
Desmond Angus Swayne (Conservative, Centre-right): Swansea West. The hon. Member for Nottingham East said that he did not believe that people should not have an opportunity to revisit their decision, and that they have a perfect right to change their mind—I accept that. I am not in favour of some sort of African democracy of one man, one vote, once. People perfectly rightly have an opportunity to do that, but if there was one thing on which both sides in the referendum campaign were agreed it was on the importance of the vote that took place on 23 June 2016. He has every right to campaign for a second referendum, and I am glad that he has made it explicit this evening in advocating for his amendment that that is the real agenda. The purpose is to delay for long enough for something to turn up. An essential ingredient of giving time for something to turn up so that people will change their minds is delay, and that is what the process of all today’s amendments has, in essence, been about.
European Union (Withdrawal) Bill — House of Commons, 2017-12-13
Topic: Other
Robin Caspar Walker (Conservative, Centre-right): It has been a pleasure to listen to this wide-ranging debate and to hear some of the speeches, not all of which seemed to be specifically about clause 8. I compliment my opposite number, the hon. Member for Greenwich and Woolwich (Matthew Pennycook), who very accurately described the clause.
Jobcentre Closures — House of Commons, 2017-10-25
Topic: Mixed Topics
Damian Patrick George Hinds (Conservative, Centre-right): We did of course make an assessment of the effect of the changes. Where the changes would involve people having to travel more than 3 miles or 20 minutes by public transport, we had a public consultation. [Interruption.] In one case, we changed the plan in the light of the consultation, as the hon. Member for Glasgow South (Stewart Malcolm McDonald) well knows. We think it is right to move to larger jobcentres in which we can do more. They are better equipped and have computers to ensure that that facility is there, and there are specialists in the jobcentre who can help people with the computers and get through the problems of digital exclusion that the hon. Lady mentions.
Jobcentre Closures — House of Commons, 2017-10-25
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Order. I am sorry, but I need a single sentence and a question mark at the end of it. There is a lot of pressure on time. I apologise to the hon. Lady, but she is taking far too long. She must be very quick.
Jobcentre Closures — House of Commons, 2017-10-25
Topic: Civil Rights
Damian Patrick George Hinds (Conservative, Centre-right): The key point is that an equality impact assessment is not just a document; it is an entire way of thinking and working and it runs throughout these processes. I can confirm that we have been absolutely compliant with our duties under the Equality Act 2010, as we should be.