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UK Plans for Leaving the EU — House of Commons, 2017-10-09
Topic: International Affairs
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend is right that it was clear early on that we had to trigger article 50 before the negotiations could start. We waited to do that until we had done considerable work in government to prepare us for triggering article 50, which we did, and the extent of that work has now been shown in the negotiations and position papers we published over the summer. On his last point, I simply say, as I have said before, that public pronouncements are of course sometimes made about the negotiations, but we are in a negotiation, and very often our discussions behind the scenes in private are more positive and constructive than some of the public pronouncements suggest.
UK Plans for Leaving the EU — House of Commons, 2017-10-09
Topic: Foreign Trade
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): When two countries enter into a trade agreement, both sides agree the set of rules and regulations pertaining to it, but they also agree how disputes will be resolved and what will happen if either side chooses to change or diverge from the rules and regulations. That is the position regarding our trade agreement with the EU, except that we already operate on the basis of the same rules and regulations. The European Union (Withdrawal) Bill will bring the EU acquis into UK law, so the key question, which will be part of the negotiations, is how we manage divergence on either side after that. It is the same as with any trade agreement.
UK Plans for Leaving the EU — House of Commons, 2017-10-09
Topic: International Affairs
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): Yes, I believe that such a relationship is in the interests of the remaining 27 members states of the EU and that as they come to look at this issue—they were not previously focusing on it, but Florence has now triggered their thinking on it—they will see the benefits of such a relationship not just to us but to them as well.
UK Plans for Leaving the EU — House of Commons, 2017-10-09
Topic: Agriculture
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Lady is right to suggest that when we leave the European Union one of the aspects of leaving it will be leaving the common fisheries policy. Of course, we will need to consider the arrangements that we want to put in place here in the United Kingdom for the operation of our coastal waters and the operation of fishing around them.
UK Plans for Leaving the EU — House of Commons, 2017-10-09
Topic: International Affairs
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend has made an important point. People often assume that only UK businesses and UK individuals will be affected, but actually people living in the remaining 27 countries of the European Union will also be affected, which is precisely why I think that the deep and special partnership to which my hon. Friend has referred is in the interests of both sides.
UK Plans for Leaving the EU — House of Commons, 2017-10-09
Topic: International Affairs
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Gentleman talks about the position of the Government. The position of the Government is very clear, and was set out in the Florence speech. It is our offer to the European Union, and we await discussions with the EU about that particular issue. I have also made it clear, from Lancaster House onwards, that when it is possible for us to give information and updates on the negotiations, we will do so, but we will do nothing that would undermine our position in the negotiations.
UK Plans for Leaving the EU — House of Commons, 2017-10-09
Topic: Foreign Trade
James Philip Duddridge (Conservative, Centre-right): Given that Germany and France export more to us than we export to them, what discussions has the Prime Minister had with her French and German counterparts? Has she asked them to pressurise the EU institutions to secure a good deal for those countries, which means negotiating faster, more effectively, and with a shared understanding of what we can both gain from this deal?
UK Plans for Leaving the EU — House of Commons, 2017-10-09
Topic: Foreign Trade
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): I assure my hon. Friend that I do have discussions with the leaders of France and Germany, and, indeed, with the leaders of other EU member states. Others, such as the Dutch and the Belgians, also have a significant economic interest in our future relationship because of the economic activity at their ports. We discuss arrangements for the future with the leaders of those countries, and, as I said a little earlier, there is a growing sense and recognition of the importance of that deep and special trading relationship to the future of both sides.
UK Plans for Leaving the EU — House of Commons, 2017-10-09
Topic: Macroeconomics
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): It is not, of course, possible to answer that question at this stage. We are negotiating a deal, and we will not have negotiated that deal until, I suspect, close to the end of the period that has been set aside for it. At that point, we will be able to see what the benefits of the deal will be for the future of the British economy.
UK Plans for Leaving the EU — House of Commons, 2017-10-09
Topic: International Affairs
Mark Gino Francois (Conservative, Centre-right): I commend the Prime Minister for her detailed statement. It was in stark contrast to what was said by the Leader of the Opposition, who left the House completely in the dark about his own position. Can the Prime Minister solve a dilemma for him? Why, if Labour Members are so concerned about Brexit, or even, indeed, about the security of EU nationals after we leave, could they not bring themselves to debate the matter at all at their own party conference in Brighton?
UK Plans for Leaving the EU — House of Commons, 2017-10-09
Topic: International Affairs
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): None of us wants to see the sort of violent scenes that we saw on the streets of Catalonia; I want to see this situation resolved peacefully, as I am sure do all hon. Members. But we are very clear as a Government that the Spanish Government have the right to uphold the Spanish constitution and that all parties should be operating under the rule of law.
UK Plans for Leaving the EU — House of Commons, 2017-10-09
Topic: Foreign Trade
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend is of course right that the trading relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union is very important to the EU, as well as important to the UK. What I did in my Florence speech was set out a vision—a proposal—for the future relationship between the UK and the EU, based on our current relationship, showing how we can develop that relationship in a way that is in the interests of both sides. This has switched the dial in our negotiations, and obviously we look forward to being able to enter negotiations on those aspects in more detail.
UK Plans for Leaving the EU — House of Commons, 2017-10-09
Topic: International Affairs
Hugo Swire (Conservative, Centre-right): Following the recent German elections, power has moved from Berlin to Paris, so will the Prime Minister remind President Macron of the importance of being a good neighbour to the United Kingdom, because post Brexit, France will still be our neighbour, tens of thousands of French people will still want to visit and study here, and vice versa; we will still want to co-operate on environmental issues and immigration; and we will still wish to preserve our special defence arrangements with the French?
UK Plans for Leaving the EU — House of Commons, 2017-10-09
Topic: International Affairs
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): My right hon. Friend makes an important point about not only our future relationship with the EU, but our future bilateral relationship with France. I can assure him that all the discussions that I have with President Macron, and that other Ministers have with their opposite numbers, are based on our not only maintaining but enhancing that bilateral relationship.
UK Plans for Leaving the EU — House of Commons, 2017-10-09
Topic: Foreign Trade
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): The judgment that came out of the American Department of Commerce is a preliminary one. We await the final judgment of that Department, and the issue can then go to a trade Commissioner. We continue to work with the US and Canadian Governments, and Boeing and Bombardier, to bring about a resolution to this dispute and protect the important jobs in Northern Ireland. I understand that my right hon. Friend the Business Secretary will be making a statement on the matter tomorrow.
UK Plans for Leaving the EU — House of Commons, 2017-10-09
Topic: Government Operations
George William Freeman (Conservative, Centre-right): After the funfair of the conference season, may I welcome the Prime Minister back to her place as leader of this party, this Government and this country, and to the serious business of government? I congratulate her on the steely determination that she showed last week, including her setting out of an inspiring commitment to see this issue through on behalf of the next generation When the Prime Minister heard the Leader of the Opposition refer to Labour’s policy of a transition phase, did she, like me, think that that must be the one that she herself announced in her Lancaster House speech? The only transition in Labour that I see is the one from a once great party to a party of Venezuelan socialism.
UK Plans for Leaving the EU — House of Commons, 2017-10-09
Topic: International Affairs
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend is absolutely spot on, on both counts. Indeed, in my Lancaster House speech, I said: "I want us to have reached an agreement about our future partnership by the time the two-year Article Fifty process has concluded. From that point onwards, we believe a phased process of implementation" to enable us to "prepare for the new arrangements…will be in our mutual self-interest." So we thought of the implementation period quite a long time ago.
UK Plans for Leaving the EU — House of Commons, 2017-10-09
Topic: International Affairs
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): I thank the right hon. Lady. I have spoken to the President of the European Parliament about my going over there and speaking with either the plenary or the Conference of Presidents of the European Parliament. I believe that our offices are negotiating on a date at the moment.
UK Plans for Leaving the EU — House of Commons, 2017-10-09
Topic: International Affairs
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): That is the view of the European Parliament in its resolution. In my statement and my Florence speech, I put out that we expect that the implementation period will be based on the current rules and regulations, but of course this is part of the negotiation.
UK Plans for Leaving the EU — House of Commons, 2017-10-09
Topic: International Affairs
Crispin Jeremy Rupert Blunt (Conservative, Centre-right): May I congratulate the Prime Minister on the tone she has set in the run-up to the decision of the October Council? I also thank her for the reply she has just given to my right hon. Friend the Member for New Forest West (Sir Desmond Swayne), making it clear that the Government have followed the recommendations of the Select Committee on Foreign Affairs in its March report about the need to prepare for no deal. Will she confirm that individuals and businesses will also need to be in a position to make their contingency plans? Does she accept that, if the negotiations on the final settlement are postponed for at least two months in October, the Government will have to surface their no-deal preparations, so that businesses and individuals can share in making the necessary preparations? This will also rely on a vote of the European Parliament, and we saw what happened last week, with the Labour MEPs supporting a position that was absolutely against the interests of the United Kingdom.
UK Plans for Leaving the EU — House of Commons, 2017-10-09
Topic: Foreign Trade
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): First of all, obviously, I still expect that we will be able to negotiate a good deal, and that is what we are working for. It is important that we take businesses along with us and that we discuss and hear from businesses their reaction to the various issues being raised in the negotiations. Indeed, I and a number of other Cabinet Ministers were present at the business advisory council that was held in No. 10 Downing Street today. However, my hon. Friend’s question seemed to be based on the premise that, if we did not get a formal notification of sufficient progress in October, that would mean that we would not be likely to get a deal. I do not believe that that is the case. I believe, as has been indicated by other hon. Friends, that we are seeing more of a movement on the European Union side to recognise the importance of discussing the trade negotiations and to consider the necessity of an implementation period.
UK Plans for Leaving the EU — House of Commons, 2017-10-09
Topic: International Affairs
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): Both this Government and the Irish Government—and indeed, increasingly in the discussions we have been having on the issues relating to Northern Ireland and the Republic, the European Union—have confirmed an absolute commitment to the Good Friday agreement. We are very clear that we stand by the Good Friday agreement, which, as the hon. Lady said, was hard negotiated and welcomed by a majority. We are absolutely committed to ensuring that nothing that we do in the Brexit negotiations in any way jeopardises the implementation of the Good Friday agreement.
UK Plans for Leaving the EU — House of Commons, 2017-10-09
Topic: International Affairs
Shailesh Lakhman Vara (Conservative, Centre-right): May I congratulate the Prime Minister on her very encouraging and positive statement? Does she agree that it would be helpful if British businesses with interests in other European Union countries used their influence with the political leadership in those countries to impress upon them the need to have an agreement in everyone’s interest? In particular, does she agree that they need to emphasise that the economic impact of not having an agreement by March 2019 will not only affect Britain, but hugely affect the other EU countries as well?
UK Plans for Leaving the EU — House of Commons, 2017-10-09
Topic: International Affairs
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): Nice bid, as the Secretary of State says. Let me say to the hon. Gentleman—[Interruption.] Well, he changed from "not losing out" to "additional money" in his question. We have been very clear in relation to a number of elements where people currently receive funding related to the EU, such as under the common agricultural policy and structural funds, that we will meet any agreements entered into before we leave the European Union—in relation to the structural funds, as long as they meet UK priorities and are value for money. Thereafter, once we are outside the EU, it will be for us here in the UK to decide how we wish to ensure that different parts of the country are supported in the way that is necessary for them. What I have put forward is that there should be a shared prosperity fund, which will look at the diversity and disparity within regions and between regions, and we will act accordingly.
UK Plans for Leaving the EU — House of Commons, 2017-10-09
Topic: International Affairs
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): I recognise the concerns people have about ensuring they know what the situation is going to be. The Government are working on what steps will be necessary for whatever the eventuality—whether we do negotiate a deal or whether we do not—and in doing that we are holding discussions with business.
UK Plans for Leaving the EU — House of Commons, 2017-10-09
Topic: International Affairs
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): I am very clear that as we look for a solution for the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland we do not want to set up a new border between the island of Ireland and the mainland of the United Kingdom. Obviously, what happens at the border the hon. Gentleman refers to will depend on the future partnership that we agree with the EU. We have put some proposals forward for customs arrangements that could pertain. When we get into the negotiation of that phase, we will be able to look at those issues in detail.
UK Plans for Leaving the EU — House of Commons, 2017-10-09
Topic: International Affairs
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend makes an important point. I am very clear that there will be no second referendum. The British people were given their opportunity to choose, they chose to come out of the European Union and that is what this Government will deliver.
UK Plans for Leaving the EU — House of Commons, 2017-10-09
Topic: International Affairs
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): I say to all those Opposition Members who have stood up today and asked about the legal position on revoking article 50 that the position is very clear. The British people voted in a referendum to leave the European Union.
UK Plans for Leaving the EU — House of Commons, 2017-10-09
Topic: Foreign Trade
Laurence Anthony Robertson (Conservative, Centre-right): Will the Prime Minister confirm that no money will be paid for access to the single market, for two reasons? First, the EU sends a lot more goods and services to us than we send to it. Secondly, there are countries around the world that export to the EU single market without any problems at all.
UK Plans for Leaving the EU — House of Commons, 2017-10-09
Topic: Foreign Trade
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend is of course right that the EU has a number of trade agreements with countries around the world that enable those countries to deal with the single market on the basis set out in those agreements. As I have set out, we will honour our commitments—that is important for us as a country—and there are some areas, possibly in fields such as security and science, in which we will want to continue to be members of specific projects and programmes. If we do, it will be right that we pay an element of the costs of those projects and programmes. Those are the two elements that I have set out in our financial proposals.
UK Plans for Leaving the EU — House of Commons, 2017-10-09
Topic: International Affairs
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): Having an implementation period will be part of the negotiations. The EU has previously referenced the possibility of there being such a period, but we need to negotiate the length of that period and its implementation.
UK Plans for Leaving the EU — House of Commons, 2017-10-09
Topic: Law and Crime
William David Wiggin (Conservative, Centre-right): I congratulate my right hon. Friend on her excellent answer to the hon. Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant), but the vile brutality of the Spanish police really does disturb me. Any bold new strategic agreement on law enforcement and criminal justice cannot allow bullying of that nature, whether by member states or EU negotiators.
UK Plans for Leaving the EU — House of Commons, 2017-10-09
Topic: Law and Crime
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): I assure my hon. Friend that the agreement that we envisage entering into with the remaining states of the EU on security, criminal justice and law enforcement matters will be mutually beneficial, particularly on the sort of data we can exchange across borders to ensure we are able to deal with the many challenges we face, especially those relating to human trafficking and modern slavery, organised crime and, of course, terrorism.
UK Plans for Leaving the EU — House of Commons, 2017-10-09
Topic: International Affairs
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): In relation to that issue, we have looked at the broader question of the customs arrangements and, as I say, we have published a paper that contains proposals for systems that could operate in future. In relation to the Northern Irish border with the Republic of Ireland, we are discussing with the parties in Northern Ireland, the EU and the Irish Government what the future arrangement might look like, but the EU recognises that it is not possible to confirm what that future arrangement will look like until we have looked into some of the wider issues of the future partnership between the UK and the EU.
UK Plans for Leaving the EU — House of Commons, 2017-10-09
Topic: International Affairs
Michael Louis David Fabricant (Conservative, Centre-right): Kristian Jensen has joined Wolfgang Schäuble—both are Finance Ministers—in saying that the negotiation would be easy were it not for the game playing. It is the modus operandi of the EU to bully on occasion, to brief the media negatively on occasion, and to bide for time right up until the wire. May I tell my right hon. Friend not to be naive—not that she would be—and listen to the ridiculous comments from Labour Members who have never negotiated their way out of a paper bag, let alone the EU?
UK Plans for Leaving the EU — House of Commons, 2017-10-09
Topic: International Affairs
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend is absolutely right. We know the things that can be done in negotiations to appear to make life difficult. What matters is that the Government have their vision very clearly set on the end state and the arrangement we wish to negotiate, and we are firmly committed to that negotiation. I can think of no better person than my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union to deal with the sort of methods that my hon. Friend set out.
UK Plans for Leaving the EU — House of Commons, 2017-10-09
Topic: International Affairs
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): I have explained this on a number of occasions, but I shall do so again. The British people voted to leave the European Union. Leaving the European Union means not being a full member of the single market and the customs union. We have set out a proposal for a deep and special economic partnership with the EU that continues to enable both sides to trade with each other in a way that protects jobs and brings increasing prosperity to the United Kingdom and to the European Union. I say again, as I have said in the past: if the hon. Gentleman wants to ensure that jobs in Scotland are protected, he needs to make sure that Scotland remains part of the United Kingdom.
UK Plans for Leaving the EU — House of Commons, 2017-10-09
Topic: International Affairs
Andrew Richard Rosindell (Conservative, Centre-right): The very last thing my constituents would want is the revocation of article 50. The British people voted for Brexit, they expect the Prime Minister to deliver it, and they have every confidence that she will. Will she reassure the people of Gibraltar that no agreement will be made unless they are fully included in that agreement, and that Spain has no veto over their future?
UK Plans for Leaving the EU — House of Commons, 2017-10-09
Topic: International Affairs
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): We are very clear on that. We have continued to hold talks with the Gibraltar Government—as, indeed, we have with others—to make sure that they are fully aware of the negotiations as they go along. We are very clear about Gibraltar’s position. My hon. Friend makes an important point about the Labour party and the rest of the Opposition: they claim that they want to respect the referendum vote, yet here they are trying to suggest we should revoke article 50. That is the exact opposite of what the British people wanted.