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Brexit Readiness: Operation Yellowhammer — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Mixed Topics
Andrew Campbell Bowie (Conservative, Centre-right): Given my right hon. Friend’s apparent close and positive relationship with the Scottish Government, will he ask on our behalf how much of the £92 million that has been sent up to the Scottish Government is being given to local authorities, specifically Aberdeenshire? When we ask the question, the answer is not forthcoming.
Brexit Readiness: Operation Yellowhammer — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Mixed Topics
Jeremy John Elton Lefroy (Conservative, Centre-right): We have, understandably, concentrated on the movement and supply of goods in the case, which I hope never happens, of no deal. However, data flow is the lifeblood of businesses and, indeed, public services, and we have heard very little about that. What assessment does my right hon. Friend have of data flows immediately after 31 October in the case of no deal, and what is the state of data adequacy preparations? How long will it take to get there?
Brexit Readiness: Operation Yellowhammer — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Civil Rights
Michael Andrew Gove (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend makes a very good point. If we leave without a deal, it will be the case that we will have to wait some time before data adequacy is granted. It should be granted, because it is the case that similar jurisdictions outside the EU, like the Crown dependencies—the Channel Islands and so on—have data adequacy ratings. It is also the case, however, that companies can take steps by having standard contractual clauses with their counterparties in the EU in order to ensure the uninterrupted flow of personal data. I encourage companies in that position to look at the information on the Information Commissioner’s website, which can help them.
Brexit Readiness: Operation Yellowhammer — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Other
Michael Andrew Gove (Conservative, Centre-right): I am very grateful to the hon. Lady for reminding me of the vital role that this House plays in scrutiny, which I take exceptionally seriously. It is and always has been the case that we have a base scenario based on unarguable facts and a reasonable worst-case scenario. That has always been the case.
Brexit Readiness: Operation Yellowhammer — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Mixed Topics
Michael Andrew Gove (Conservative, Centre-right): It was a pleasure to visit Holyhead and I appreciate the hon. Gentleman’s hard work not just on behalf of his constituents but in that port. I pay tribute to those who work there. Again, I stress that Yellowhammer is a reasonable worst-case scenario, which looks at a particular set of challenges. The Government have taken many other steps, including communication with the Welsh Assembly Government and their Labour Ministers, to ensure that we can support the port of Holyhead in its vital work.
Brexit Readiness: Operation Yellowhammer — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Immigration
Michael Andrew Gove (Conservative, Centre-right): I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for raising that. If we maintain effective flow at the border, there should not be any interruption. I would be interested to know from him—I would be grateful if he wrote to me—about the two companies he mentions, as I would want more closely to investigate the situation in which they find themselves.
Brexit Readiness: Operation Yellowhammer — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Mixed Topics
Michael Andrew Gove (Conservative, Centre-right): It is my understanding that if we have both fresh fish and fresh shellfish, and also, as it happens—I shall explain the circumstances—day-old chicks crossing the border, there are about 70 lorries daily. Those lorries will be prioritised when they arrive at Calais on a specific route to take them to Boulogne-sur-Mer, where a border inspection post will be in place, and if they have the appropriate documentation, the products can be sold so that French consumers can continue to enjoy them.
Brexit Readiness: Operation Yellowhammer — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Mixed Topics
Michael Andrew Gove (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Lady makes a very important point. I would want to stress two things. First, we are currently stress-testing the figure for the degree of readiness. It relies on several calculations. In the past, those figures have been signed off by the Office for National Statistics, but we are testing some of the propositions.
Brexit Readiness: Operation Yellowhammer — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Other
Michael Andrew Gove (Conservative, Centre-right): When I was a food hall porter at British Home Stores in Aberdeen, I never saw any violence when the last lettuce was taken off the shelves, but maybe people are politer in Aberdeen than elsewhere.
Brexit Readiness: Operation Yellowhammer — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Immigration
Michael Andrew Gove (Conservative, Centre-right): I think it is the case that we are absolutely committed to there being no hard border. One of the reasons is that—certainly governing the United Kingdom and Ireland, Great Britain and the island of Ireland—we have had a common travel area since 1922, and we are pleased to be able to maintain that. It is not the case that people will require any checks to travel between these two islands.
Brexit Readiness: Operation Yellowhammer — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Mixed Topics
Michael Andrew Gove (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Gentleman has made a series of very good and absolutely critical points. One of the sectors that would be most adversely affected by no deal is the sheepmeat sector, and the points that his farmers made to him and he has made here are entirely right. The common external tariff, and the amount of sheepmeat that we export to the EU, will create potential economic disruption. That is why the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has plans to intervene to support farmers in the way to which I alluded earlier I believe that we have a significant number of additional vets with the capacity to export health certificates. The hon. Gentleman is also absolutely right about abattoirs. A significant number of those who work in our abattoirs are EU nationals; we value them, which is why I am so pleased that, so far, so many people have been granted status through the EU settlement scheme.
Brexit Readiness: Operation Yellowhammer — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Immigration
Michael Andrew Gove (Conservative, Centre-right): As I mentioned earlier, more than a million people have been granted status. Tens of thousands of people are applying every day, and the process, as far as I know, is working well. The process will continue right up until the end of next year, and we are providing people in this country who are EU nationals with a guarantee of their rights that no other EU nation is matching for UK nationals. It is the most generous offer, and I am delighted that the Home Secretary is presiding over a system that works in the interests of our friends and neighbours.
Brexit Readiness: Operation Yellowhammer — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Gentleman can table questions, if he wishes. I heard the Minister for the Cabinet Office, who I think advised the House that the Minister with responsibility for the particular matters to which he referred was the Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General, the right hon. Member for Hertsmere (Oliver Dowden). It has always been my understanding that the right hon. Member for Hertsmere was one of the Minister for the Cabinet Office’s junior Ministers and that, therefore, overall the right hon. Member for Surrey Heath (Michael Gove) has top-level responsibility, but if I am wrong I am sure that we will all be disabused of our error.
Brexit Readiness: Operation Yellowhammer — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): I think the position is pretty clear, to be honest. Overall responsibility lies with the most senior Minister. I do not think that the Minister for the Cabinet Office would disavow that proposition for a moment. The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster was offering greater specificity, but the overall position is, I think, blindingly obvious.
Brexit Readiness: Operation Yellowhammer — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): I do not think I can arbitrate between the hon. Gentleman in his question and the Minister in his reply. The hon. Gentleman has put his concern on the record. He is a most perspicacious fellow and I feel sure that he will have recourse to the Table Office if he wishes to table further questions. Knowing the appetite of the right hon. Member for Surrey Heath (Michael Gove) for responding to inquiries, I am sure he will be getting up even earlier in the morning and going to bed even later at night specifically to attend to the inquiries of the hon. Member for East Lothian (Martin Whitfield). The nodding of the head of the Minister on the Treasury Bench is testament to his acceptance of the point I have just made.
Iran — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): With such a glittering array of parliamentary celebrities on both sides, it is difficult to know whom to choose, but I think that I must call not just a Member, I say for the benefit of observers, but a president—the president of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, Madeleine Moon.
Iran — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): I am keen to accommodate colleagues, but I am also keen to proceed to the next statement as close as possible to 6.30 pm. I am sure that colleagues will take their cue from that and will be admirably succinct.
Iran — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Civil Rights
Julian Murray Lewis (Conservative, Centre-right): Do the Government accept that when we are dealing with two adversarial powers, both influential and both in the grip of religious fanaticism, the best policy we can adopt is one of the traditional balance of power, making sure that neither becomes too strong, but not fooling ourselves that the enemy of my enemy is necessarily my friend?
Iran — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Order. I am immensely grateful to the hon. Gentleman. I know he speaks on the basis of a recent visit, but if he could advance towards a question with a question mark at the end of it, that would be enormously appreciated by the whole House.
Iran — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Mixed Topics
Dominic Rennie Raab (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Lady raises a terrible case, as all those cases are, not just for the individuals involved but for their families and loved ones. We raise all the dual nationality cases that we have at every level. I am confident that the Prime Minister raised those cases with President Rouhani, and I can assure the hon. Lady that I raised them all directly with Foreign Minister Zarif.
Iran — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Mixed Topics
Dominic Rennie Raab (Conservative, Centre-right): Iran is clearly trying to exploit all the potential avenues for exerting its influence and power in the region, not just militarily, as we saw with Aramco, but with cyber. We are making sure that we have the best set of technological equipment and resources to ensure we can defend ourselves. Again, we will need to work with our international partners on that.
Iran — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Mixed Topics
Atta-Ur-Rehman Chishti (Conservative, Centre-right): As the Prime Minister’s special envoy and ambassador for freedom of religion and belief, I recently met representatives of the Baha’i community and the Christian community, who raise real concerns about individuals being persecuted for their faith in Iran. Will the Foreign Secretary ensure that in every discussion we have with our Iranian counterparts religious freedom is made a key priority for us so that individuals can practice their faith freely?
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Order. I appeal to the House to have some regard to how our proceedings are viewed by people watching them in the country at large. [Interruption.] Order. Let the remainder of the statement be heard. I am grateful for the Prime Minister’s exhortation but I do not require it; I am perfectly content. What I want to hear is the rest of the statement and then questioning on it.
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Order. I said that the Prime Minister should not be shouted down. The same goes for the Leader of the Opposition. Let me say to people bellowing from a sedentary position: stop it—you will exhaust your vocal cords, you will get nowhere, it will not work, and these proceedings will continue for as long as is necessary for the Chair to be satisfied that proper scrutiny has taken place. It is as simple and incontrovertible as that.
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Order. The Leader of the Opposition is entitled to be heard in this Parliament, and he will be heard. [Interruption.] Order. I do not mind how long it takes, these exchanges will take place in an orderly manner. Be in no doubt about that.
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Order. I appeal to Members of the House to calm themselves. I just called the right hon. Member for Chingford and Woodford Green. He is entitled to put his question, and the rest of us are entitled to hear him. Mr Iain Duncan Smith.
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Other
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I thank my right hon. Friend for his acute question. I am afraid the answer is simple: the Opposition do not want an election because they are not sure that the public would trust them with the Government—and I think that they are right. I think they put the yellow into yellowhammer.
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Order. The right hon. Gentleman leads the third party in this House. He has a right to be heard. He will continue his contribution and he will be heard, however long it takes. If the message has to be repeated again and again and again ad infinitum, so be it. He will be heard—end of subject.
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Order, order! Just for the avoidance of doubt, I am sure that the right hon. Gentleman will not state in this House that the Prime Minister has lied in the House. He must not do so—[Interruption.] Order, order! That is the procedural position. He did not say that, but he did refer to lying. I know that he cannot be referring to it in the context of the exchanges in this House. A nod of the head to confirm that my interpretation is correct will suffice and he can then proceed with the rest of his questioning.
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Mixed Topics
William Nigel Paul Cash (Conservative, Centre-right): The Supreme Court mentioned that the Prorogation had an extreme effect on the fundamentals of our democracy. Does my right hon. Friend accept that it is more than an extreme and undemocratic effect for Parliament itself to tear up its own Standing Order No. 14, because the priority that that Standing Order gives to Government business, as compared with private Members’ business such as the surrender Act, derives exclusively from the fundamental democracy of the voters of this country in general elections, and to remedy this, they must be given an early general election to decide who governs this country?
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Civil Rights
Patrick McLoughlin (Conservative, Centre-right): As somebody who voted remain in the referendum, I am mindful of the fact that this House of Commons voted six to one in favour of having a referendum. On two occasions, the Prime Minister has attempted to call a general election that would have taken place on 15 October. If the British people—who we get our mandate from—had decided that there should have been another Prime Minister on that occasion, they would have had the opportunity. Why was that prevented?
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Mixed Topics
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): My right hon. Friend speaks with great wisdom and experience of this place, but I cannot believe that in all his time here he has ever seen a Leader of the Opposition actively forgo and turn down, in full view of the British public, the opportunity to have a general election. But that is what has happened twice. There can only be one possible explanation—that he does not think he can win.
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Civil Rights
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (Conservative, Centre-right): Can I congratulate my right hon. Friend on becoming Prime Minister? I hope he is enjoying doing the job as much as I am enjoying not doing the job. Does he agree that those who claim to defend parliamentary democracy are in fact putting it at grave risk by alienating a large proportion of the population who fear that this House is trying to block a democratic referendum result that we promised to honour?
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Other
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): It is a great pleasure to respond to my right hon. Friend because I am reminded of the many times that he and I shared a platform, and frankly we spoke absolutely as one on that issue. He was right then and he is right now.
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Mixed Topics
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I think the historical record will reflect that several Prime Ministers—I think all Prime Ministers—have had Prorogations. John Major, for instance, prorogued for several weeks in advance of an election. On the substantive question about the view of my right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney General about the judgment yesterday, let us be clear that we are as one in respecting the Supreme Court, and we are as one in thinking that that judgment was wrong.
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Mixed Topics
Owen William Paterson (Conservative, Centre-right): The people were told in the general election in 2015, during the passage of the European Union Referendum Bill through this House and during the referendum itself that we, the MPs, would give them the decision, that it would be a final decision and that whatever the result was, we, the MPs, would honour it. The crisis we have is that for the first time ever, the people have not obediently and politely gone along with what the establishment wanted. We have seen the political establishment in this House, the commercial establishment and now the judicial establishment go against the will of the people. They are angry. They feel thwarted by the establishment. [Interruption.] Does the Prime Minister agree that the only answer is to leave on—
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Order. Let it be said with crystal clarity including to occupants of the Treasury Bench—[Interruption.] Yes, here we go. The right hon. and learned Gentleman will be heard. He will not be shouted down by people from his own Benches. That sort of behaviour is intolerable and it is obviously so to most remotely reasonable people.
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Other
Dominic Charles Roberts Grieve (Conservative, Centre-right): Will the Prime Minister therefore take this opportunity to give an assurance to the House that should the terms of the Bill apply to him, rather than trying to die in ditches, he will observe those terms as he is duty bound to do?
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): I am going to try to be helpful to the hon. Gentleman, who is a most dedicated and assiduous Member of two years’ standing. We do not have points of order in the middle of exchanges. I will try to provide a tutorial to the hon. Gentleman on another occasion, but the right hon. Lady will not be prevented from asking her question. She is asking her question and it will be heard, and the hon. Gentleman will sit quietly and listen.
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Order. I have rightly protected the right hon. Lady from inappropriate attempts to cut her off, but she must ask a question. I very much hope that she is approaching the end of her question. She really needs to do so.
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): I have already explained once. Let me explain to the hon. Gentleman again, in terms that brook no misunderstanding, that now is not the time for points of order. That time will come, and if the hon. Gentleman is still interested, he will be heard, but he needs to learn the procedures for those matters.
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Mixed Topics
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I am grateful to the hon. Lady. As I have said many times this afternoon, I accept the judgment of the Supreme Court. However, I also say to the hon. Lady in all candour that the humblest and most responsible thing we could all do as parliamentarians is show that we respect the judgment of the people and take this country out on 31 October.
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Other
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I certainly admire the way that the hon. Lady is trying to work in a cross-party way to try to bring this to a resolution. I will take up her proposal and do what I can to bring it forward over the next few days. I appreciate that time is marching and very tight.
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Mixed Topics
Justine Greening (Conservative, Centre-right): The Prime Minister has talked about bringing a deal back to the House. He has also talked about his respect for the law, and about agreeing to make sure that he complies with the law. So may I ask him to be absolutely explicit that if he does bring a deal back to the House and the House does what its right is, perhaps, and rejects it, he will respect that, but he will also respect the so-called Benn Bill that the House has passed, and then ask for an extension May I just say to the Prime Minister that continuing to call a Bill that the House has passed a "surrender Bill" is deeply disrespectful to this place? He has said that he must respect the Supreme Court’s ruling; I simply ask him to respect the decisions of this House too.
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Order. I appeal to colleagues in all parts of the House to calm down. Let us have the exchanges. Everybody must speak in terms that he or she thinks fit, but I know we are all conscious of the premium that is placed by "Erskine May" on moderation and good humour in the use of parliamentary language.