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Procurement Programmes: Supply Chain — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Mixed Topics
Marcus John Hudson Fysh (Conservative, Centre-right): SMEs make up a large part of the helicopter manufacturing industry in my constituency and they are worried that the potential local closure of GKN foreshadows an erosion of that. What support can my hon. Friend provide to keep a full helicopter manufacturing capability in the Yeovil area?
Procurement Programmes: Supply Chain — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Mixed Topics
Harriett Mary Morison Baldwin (Conservative, Centre-right): I pay tribute to my hon. Friend’s fantastic work representing his constituents in Yeovil and the magnificent work that they do. We took delivery of the most recent Wildcat helicopter just in the last month. We look forward to working with Leonardo in Yeovil as part of a major strategic partnership agreement. It is important that my hon. Friend puts such issues about helicopter manufacturing forward as part of the industrial Green Paper that the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy will produce later this year.
Procurement Programmes: Supply Chain — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Mixed Topics
Harriett Mary Morison Baldwin (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Gentleman is right to highlight this fantastic news for companies up and down the country, including our shipbuilders on the Clyde. We have already announced contracts worth some £1.9 billion which are related to this programme right across the UK. Importantly, we will be publishing, alongside our prime contractor, the opportunities for the British steel industry to bid into this manufacturing opportunity.
Procurement Programmes: Supply Chain — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Domestic Commerce
Michael Louis David Fabricant (Conservative, Centre-right): One reason we have bureaucracy, which was mentioned by my hon. Friend the Member for Rugby (Mark Pawsey), is to ensure that SMEs stay in business during the whole course of a contract. The biggest enemy of any SME is a poor cash flow. What is the Department doing to ensure that SMEs are paid promptly?
Armed Forces Covenant — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Domestic Commerce
Mark Lancaster (Conservative, Centre-right): Of course we recognise that the covenant is very much a partnership between Government, the third sector and the corporate world, which is why I was delighted to see that we recently passed 1,200 signatures on the corporate covenant.
Armed Forces Covenant — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Mixed Topics
Mark Lancaster (Conservative, Centre-right): I welcome the hon. Gentleman to his post, and I encourage him to look at the last four covenant reports, which detail the progress we have made over the last four years. However, his point is well made, and it is precisely why, earlier this year, I commissioned the Forces in Minds Trust to do a review so that we can ensure that best practice from the various local authorities across the United Kingdom is shared.
Mental Health Services: Veterans — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): While it is always a pleasure to hear from the hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed (Mrs Trevelyan), she has already had a substantive question. She can have another go in topicals, but Members cannot speak twice in substantives, I am afraid.
Defence Spending — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Order. It is bad enough for the hon. Member for Argyll and Bute (Brendan O'Hara) to ask a question that is too long, but for him to rant for too long and then, when the Minister gets up to reply, to continue ranting is not statesmanlike behaviour by the hon. Gentleman, for whom I previously had high hopes.
Military Campaign against Daesh — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Mixed Topics
Michael Fallon (Conservative, Centre-right): In Iraq, operations to liberate Mosul are continuing to make good progress, with Iraqi forces reaching the outskirts of the city. In Syria, the Manbij pocket has been closed, restricting Daesh’s access to the Turkish border, through which they were bringing in fighters, and in September they were expelled from the culturally significant town of Dabiq.
Military Campaign against Daesh — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Mixed Topics
Michael Fallon (Conservative, Centre-right): We have seen a reduction in the flow of foreign fighters from this country to Syria and Iraq. We have intensified the work we have been doing with other countries in strategic communications to lessen the appeal of Daesh by interdicting some of their material—taking down material from their websites and reducing the appeal they have through social media—and we will continue to work at that. Meanwhile, there are perhaps 200 to 300 British citizens still involved with Daesh in Iraq and Syria. We will have to make sure that they no longer pose a threat to this country and, indeed, are held to account for any criminal acts they may have committed.
Topical Questions — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Mixed Topics
Questions: The hon. Member for Gower (Byron Davies) and I have been campaigning to bring opportunities to air cadets in Wales to experience gliding in Wales. We were promised at a meeting in the Ministry of Defence last week that a decision was pending. Is it good news or bad news?; Shortly after the EU referendum, the Defence Secretary said that Britain could continue even after Brexit to take part in EU defence missions, such as the ongoing operations to tackle smuggling, people smuggling and piracy. We are now just months away from Britain triggering article 50 and our forces and our allies need certainty about what Britain’s continued participation might look like. Will the Minister or the Defence Secretary provide us with that certainty today?
William Peter Wragg (Conservative, Centre-right): During the passage of the Armed Forces Bill, my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State undertook to review the current policy that means that not all sexual offences are referred to service police. Will he provide an update to the House?
Topical Questions — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Mixed Topics
Questions: The hon. Member for Gower (Byron Davies) and I have been campaigning to bring opportunities to air cadets in Wales to experience gliding in Wales. We were promised at a meeting in the Ministry of Defence last week that a decision was pending. Is it good news or bad news?; Shortly after the EU referendum, the Defence Secretary said that Britain could continue even after Brexit to take part in EU defence missions, such as the ongoing operations to tackle smuggling, people smuggling and piracy. We are now just months away from Britain triggering article 50 and our forces and our allies need certainty about what Britain’s continued participation might look like. Will the Minister or the Defence Secretary provide us with that certainty today?; Following publication of the highly critical marine accident investigation report on the collision between the stern trawler Karen and a dived Royal Navy submarine, and given the report’s urgent recommendations, what progress has been made on updating the Royal Navy fishing vessel code of practice?; When the Department decided to purchase the P-8A maritime patrol aircraft from the United States without competition, what arrangements did the Minister make to secure work for British companies and British workers?
Harriett Mary Morison Baldwin (Conservative, Centre-right): The right hon. Gentleman is very knowledgeable about these matters, so, again, I would have thought he would welcome the fact that we are acquiring this capability, which will be based at Lossiemouth in Scotland. Discussions with Boeing are ongoing in relation to the substantial inward investment it is making in the United Kingdom.
Article 50 — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Order. Mr Bacon, I always regard you as a cerebral denizen of the House, not the sort of person who would point across the Chamber. That is profoundly discourteous and very un-Bacon-like, if I may say so.
Article 50 — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): As usual, I want to accommodate the enormous interest of the House in this important statement and will strive to do so, but I must say to the House that questions and answers must be brief from now on.
Article 50 — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Other
David Michael Davis (Conservative, Centre-right): It is not possible by trying to thwart the will of the people by all sorts of parliamentary games, but what I will say to the right hon. Gentleman is this: I agree that we want to unify the people of Britain about a common position, but in truth there are very few differences across this divide. When I looked at what the Leader of the Opposition said on Sunday, I thought I could agree with at least two thirds of it. I do not think the divide is quite as wide as the right hon. Member for Doncaster North (Edward Miliband) thinks.
Article 50 — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Mixed Topics
John Alan Redwood (Conservative, Centre-right): Will the Government remind the Supreme Court that prerogative powers have regularly been used by Ministers over the past 44 years to introduce and change British law by accepting European decisions and regulations, without any referendum cover? Will they also give all the abundant evidence that this was not an advisory referendum to that same Court?
Article 50 — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Civil Rights
Anna Mary Soubry (Conservative, Centre-right): Our country is deeply divided. In my county of Nottinghamshire, hate crime is 18% higher today than it was a year ago. Is it not important that, in everything that we say and do in the years and months ahead of us, we watch the language and make sure it is temperate, and that we involve everybody? Seventeen million people voted to leave the EU and 16 million of us voted for us not to leave the EU, and most of us have accepted that we are now going to leave the EU. In that spirit of bringing our nation together, in the interests of everybody, will my right hon. Friend now take this opportunity unequivocally to condemn the language and the vilification of our judges, including the homophobic abuse of one of our judges? Will he now please set the tone for us to work together?
Article 50 — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Civil Rights
David Michael Davis (Conservative, Centre-right): I wholeheartedly deplore the threats and the violent language used against the individual who I think launched this judicial case—that is utterly to be deplored. The point of division when one defends free speech is the point at which it encourages violence. In that respect, I absolutely agree. Hate crime is despicable, and those sorts of assaults are despicable.
Article 50 — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Civil Rights
Michael Andrew Gove (Conservative, Centre-right): The independence of our judiciary is a very precious thing and it must be respected. The independence of our free press is also a very precious thing, and it must be respected. The fact that 17.4 million people—a majority of the British people—voted for our national independence is a precious thing and that must be respected. Will my right hon. Friend guarantee to me that he will not allow the efforts of the right hon. Members for Sheffield, Hallam (Mr Clegg) and for Doncaster North (Edward Miliband) or indeed any Member of the other place to thwart the mandate that this Government have been given in order to ensure that we can take back control of our laws, our money, our trade and our sovereignty?
Article 50 — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Mixed Topics
David Michael Davis (Conservative, Centre-right): As the judgment stands, that is my understanding. Basically, the right hon. Gentleman is right. What the court said, in effect, was, "You cannot remove rights without legislative power, and to give the Government legislative power, you have to have legislation", but remember, we are now waiting on the Supreme Court outcome, which may be different.
Article 50 — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Mixed Topics
Theresa Anne Villiers (Conservative, Centre-right): Some 105 years ago it was a Liberal Government who established the supremacy of the elected over the unelected Chamber, so would it not be a scandalous state of affairs if Lib Dem peers were to use a parliamentary vote to frustrate the will of the people of this country?
Article 50 — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Other
David Michael Davis (Conservative, Centre-right): The right hon. Gentleman will not tempt me again, but he is quite right: 17.4 million people is the biggest vote—the biggest mandate—any Government have had in the history of this country, and we have to obey it.
Article 50 — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Mixed Topics
David Michael Davis (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend is, as ever, perspicacious about this. There are many issues to be resolved. It is not a constitutional crisis; it is simply the operation of the rule of law in the United Kingdom, which is how we like to see things done.
Article 50 — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Mixed Topics
David Michael Davis (Conservative, Centre-right): Yet again, I am astonished that Scottish National party Members are saying that we cannot agree a UK-wide strategy. We are two meetings into the process. We presumably intend to try to agree a strategy—or is it the intention of the hon. Lady’s party not to let one happen?
Article 50 — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Civil Rights
Jacob William Rees-Mogg (Conservative, Centre-right): While it would be improper for Ministers to criticise judges, though not judgments, and disorderly for this House to criticise judges, except under a specific motion, is it not absolutely right that our press are free, fearless and outspoken, because there may be less happy times when judges need to be held more firmly to account?
Article 50 — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Civil Rights
David Michael Davis (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend is exactly right. There are a number of pillars of our democracy. One of them is the independence of the judiciary, which we have maintained for centuries, and another is the freedom of the press, which we are still maintaining after centuries.
Article 50 — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Other
David Michael Davis (Conservative, Centre-right): I will leave it to the Welsh Labour party to take my right hon. Friend’s advice directly. He will understand that it would not be appropriate for me to comment on who should or should not join the legal case.
Article 50 — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Mixed Topics
David Michael Davis (Conservative, Centre-right): I referred to the Northern Irish case, which the Government won, and the decision about whether to leapfrog it will be made tomorrow. I am entirely aware that this is a very wide constitutional issue that has to be resolved properly. That is one of the reasons I am resisting calls to do something before the Supreme Court rules on the issue. That is the proper place for the decision to be taken.
Article 50 — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Civil Rights
Robert James MacGillivray Neill (Conservative, Centre-right): I am glad that the Secretary of State has characterised the decision as being a judgment. The judges were asked to answer a legal point of significant importance and they did so, rightly and faithfully, in accordance with their oath. Does he, therefore, agree that it is important for our reputation after we have left the European Union that all of us speak up for the independence of the judiciary and, above all, that we do not regard freedom of expression in the press as any excuse for personal, abusive and, frankly, disgraceful innuendo being raised against individual members of Her Majesty’s judiciary? That undermines us all.
Article 50 — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Other
David Michael Davis (Conservative, Centre-right): The right hon. Lady is absolutely right. It is often said that if it had been a leave party versus a remain party, the majority would have been bigger than that of the Blair Government in 1997. We would do well to pay attention to that.
Article 50 — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Mixed Topics
Sheryll Murray (Conservative, Centre-right): Does the Secretary of State agree, despite the arguments of Labour Members and of some Conservative Members, that no successful business deal has ever been done when the hands of the negotiator have been tied, and that the best way to take this forward is to allow the Prime Minister to negotiate without boxing her in?
Article 50 — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Civil Rights
David Michael Davis (Conservative, Centre-right): I reiterate that the independence of the judiciary is one of the fundamental pillars of our democracy, as is a free press and a number of other freedoms that are sometimes uncomfortable for people, I am afraid. Of course it would help to have the support of the House, and there will be plenty of opportunities for that to happen. During the great repeal Bill debates there will be a great deal of opportunity for all parts of this House and the other place to vote on the measures put before them. That will provide some support for the Government.
Article 50 — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Civil Rights
Heidi-Suzanne Allen (Conservative, Centre-right): I believe that acceptance of the High Court ruling would have offered a symbolic and inclusive hand to those of us who voted to remain. Inclusion is a part—a key ingredient—of the Prime Minister’s strategy of bringing the country back together and we all need to come along on this journey. The Government have chosen not to do that, but can we agree that the judiciary have an important role to play in our constitution and should be allowed to do so independently, with our respect? This is what grown-up sovereignty feels like.
Article 50 — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Civil Rights
David Michael Davis (Conservative, Centre-right): The reason was not really a point of law so much as a point of constitutional and political reality. I did not see it as possible that we could reverse the decision of the British people.
Article 50 — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Other
David Michael Davis (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend is exactly right. We have in fact given a great deal of information about our direction of travel and the overarching strategy, but, as I have said, there is none so deaf as those who will not hear.
Article 50 — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Other
David Michael Davis (Conservative, Centre-right): I really like the right hon. Gentleman. I am a great admirer of him and what he has done in his life. I will say this to him: we have made a great deal of information available one way or another and we are going to make more available. The simple truth is that nobody on the Labour Benches appears to recognise that serious decisions are being taken in the public domain. They just do not like them.
Article 50 — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Other
David Michael Davis (Conservative, Centre-right): I think the taxpayer would have really good cause to worry if I was leading it. [Laughter.] We have a very good legal team. I suspect it will be the same brilliant legal team next time.
Article 50 — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Civil Rights
David Michael Davis (Conservative, Centre-right): The latter point is self-evidently the case, but let me say this to the hon. Gentleman. Over the decades, I have fought battles on both the independence and rights of the judiciary and the freedom of the press. They are both important, and they are particularly important when one does not like what they say.
Article 50 — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Other
David Michael Davis (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend has absolutely nailed the flaw in the case of the hon. and learned Member for Holborn and St Pancras. Their case is to say, "We only want you to tell us a little bit, and a little bit more, and a little bit more." Eventually, the whole thing will be in the open and no negotiation will be possible. She is exactly right.
Article 50 — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Civil Rights
David Michael Davis (Conservative, Centre-right): Well, actually, I think in both cases the hon. Gentleman has misquoted the individuals. I will say two things about a recommendation to march. The right to demonstrate is another of our freedoms. One of the great things about our Supreme Court—indeed, all our courts—is that it would not matter how many people marched. It would not move its judgments by one comma and we should be proud of that.
Article 50 — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Civil Rights
Lucy Claire Leigh (Frazer) (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. and learned Member for Holborn and St Pancras (Keir Starmer) suggested that the Government should abandon their appeal. Does the Secretary of State think that that would be sensible given that the Northern Irish court, albeit looking at a slightly different question, accepted the logic of the argument that article 50 does not of itself change individual rights, which was at the heart of the divisional court’s decision?
Article 50 — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Mixed Topics
James Philip Duddridge (Conservative, Centre-right): My right hon. Friend has come under quite a degree of criticism for not being more revealing and transparent about the Government’s position. In fact, he is told that he is holding his cards close to his chest. I think that this warrants greater investigation. Will my right hon. Friend agree to meeting me and cross-party group of Members in the Department for a game of poker? They can put their cards on the table; we can keep our cards to our chests—and the money can go to Southend charities!
Article 50 — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Mixed Topics
David Michael Davis (Conservative, Centre-right): I do not know what the hon. Lady thinks she is talking about. First, we made our case in court. We are going to appeal, as is entirely proper in an important constitutional case such as this, and we will respect the outcome of that appeal. In what respect is that somehow suspending the rule of law?
Article 50 — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Other
David Michael Davis (Conservative, Centre-right): Strictly speaking, that is a question for him, not me. He is a very good friend of mine and I will not say anything against him. I am very sorry to see him go, but beyond that, I thought he got it completely wrong.
Article 50 — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Mixed Topics
David Thomas Charles Davies (Conservative, Centre-right): Having had to report to the police disgraceful death threats that were made to me over the last few weeks, may I ask whether the Secretary of State agrees that we must all condemn all forms of hate crime on both sides of the political argument, and that it is utterly wrong to try to suggest that people who voted for the independence of Great Britain are in some way responsible for the unrepresentative actions of a tiny minority?
Article 50 — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Mixed Topics
David Michael Davis (Conservative, Centre-right): I am going to. First, because the triggering of article 50 should be done only when the policy work is complete, and it is not yet complete. Secondly, because the judicial timetable still allows us to meet the date of 30 March, which is the date that we are going to hit.
Article 50 — House of Commons, 2016-11-07
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Order. I am not sure that the right hon. Member for New Forest West (Sir Desmond Swayne) yelling "Answer" from a sedentary position quite constitutes the sort of knightly behaviour that we have come to expect of him.