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Topical Questions — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: Law and Crime
Questions: After the Secretary of State’s statement that terrorists cannot harm us and his ministry was forced to admit that its drone policy was misleading and erroneously drafted, will the Secretary of State tell the House whether it is the policy of the UK Government to kill people outside warzones?; Will my right hon. Friend congratulate the British Army for all the work it has done, in conjunction with the Malawi Government, to protect elephants in Malawi? The ivory trade has seen a reduction in the number of elephants from 4,000 10 years ago to 2,000 now. Something must be done and thankfully the British Army is helping.; Uniformed cadets, like 241 Squadron air cadets in my constituency, do an amazing job of producing well-rounded, empowered young people. I invite the Minister to look at the funding provided across government to our uniformed cadets, which clearly offer much better value for money than some other Government-funded youth programmes.; I look forward to hearing the details this week of the new scheme offering £40,000-worth of bursaries to military veterans to retrain as teachers. Does the Minister agree that focusing on priority subjects is another example of how we are trying to plug the STEM skills gap?; Under “A Better Defence Estate,” the Secretary of State plans to close the state-of-the-art medical facilities in York and the upgraded First Division headquarters. Can he say how much this is costing the taxpayer?; There is a still a great deal of confusion and concern around the future basing arrangements for the Army Reserve. Could the Minister tell us when we might expect more information to be published on this important matter?; I am enjoying the recognition, Mr Speaker. The National Audit Office has revealed that the cost of the Dreadnought and Astute programmes has now risen by nearly £1 billion. Can the Secretary of State confirm that there will be no further cuts to conventional forces to meet the rising costs of Trident?
Sharon Hodgson (Labour, Centre-left): The parents of Corporal Simon Miller are yet to receive justice for their son, one of the Red Caps murdered in Iraq in 2003. I have written to Ministers over many years on this issue. Will the Minister agree to meet me and the Millers to find some justice for their son?
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: International Affairs
Jeremy Bernard Corbyn (Labour, Centre-left): I thank the Prime Minister for the advance copy of the statement. Twenty months have passed since the referendum, and a year has passed since article 50 was triggered—20 wasted months in which the arrogance of some in the Cabinet, who said that it would be the easiest deal in history, has turned into debilitating in-fighting. We have seen set-piece speech after set-piece speech, yet the Prime Minister still cannot bring clarity to the negotiations or certainty to British businesses or workers The Prime Minister’s speech on Friday promised to unite the nation, yet it barely papered over the cracks in her own party. Even her own Minister for the Cabinet Office said that it was only "an ambitious opening bid", so who knows where we will end up? The European Union published a detailed legal document last Wednesday; despite the criticisms rightly made from across the House, where is anything comparable in detail and focus from the UK Government? The reality is that the speech failed to deliver any clear and credible solution to the problems we face. This Government’s shambolic approach to Brexit risks taking us down a dangerous road. This Government’s reckless strategy is putting our jobs and manufacturing industries at risk The Prime Minister’s only clear priority seems to be to tie the UK permanently to EU rules that have been used to enforce privatisation and block support for industry. [Interruption.] The Prime Minister now seems to be saying that we will lose some access to European markets and that Britain will be worse off. [Interruption.]
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: International Affairs
Hilary James Benn (Labour, Centre-left): Although the Prime Minister’s speech provided some welcome additional detail on her view of the future partnership, the Irish Foreign Minister, Simon Coveney, said yesterday that she had not done so when it comes to "maintaining a largely invisible border on the island of Ireland." Regardless of the means that she has in mind for achieving that, is she able today to give a guarantee to businesses in Northern Ireland and the Republic that their manufactured goods and agricultural products will be able to cross the border without checks, controls or infrastructure when we leave the European Union?
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: Foreign Trade
Yvette Cooper (Labour, Centre-left): The Prime Minister is still proposing that we will be outside a customs union and have different external tariffs and commercial policies, which she knows will mean burdensome rules of origin checks, and customs checks on goods crossing borders to ensure that businesses do not evade or avoid those different external tariffs. She has proposed that 80% of businesses in Ireland would be exempt from any of those checks, but she will be aware that security experts have warned of the risk from not just physical infrastructure at the border, but an increased incentive for smuggling, particularly given the links between smuggler groups and paramilitary organisations. Why is she continuing to pursue a policy on the customs union that involves a risk of increasing both the smuggling and security threats?
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: International Affairs
Patrick Bosco McFadden (Labour, Centre-left): On Friday and today, the Prime Minister said that our access to one another’s markets would be less than it is now. This is the public burial of the claim made by her Brexit Secretary a year ago in this House that the Government’s aim was to secure the "exact same benefits" as we now enjoy. The Prime Minister has admitted to the country that there is an economic cost to Brexit, so will she now tell us what is that economic cost, when the public will be told about it, and who will pay it?
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: International Affairs
Catharine Letitia Hoey (Labour, Centre-left): The Prime Minister made some very sensible suggestions in her speech about the relationship with regard to the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Has she read a very good report by the European Parliament’s Committee on Constitutional Affairs about how the border issue can be solved by innovative technology and so on? Will she make sure that her officials also read that before they go back into negotiations?
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: Foreign Trade
Benjamin Peter James Bradshaw (Labour, Centre-left): Do President Trump’s trade barriers, aimed primarily at us in Europe and against Canada, and the news from this lunchtime that the Americans are offering us a worse deal on open skies than the one we currently enjoy as members of the European Union, ever make the Prime Minister think that we might be making a mistake by removing ourselves from our single biggest market and the world’s biggest free trade area?
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: Macroeconomics
Alison McGovern (Labour, Centre-left): The Chancellor of the Exchequer will soon give us the spring statement. At that moment, the Office for Budget Responsibility will publish its financial outlook for our country. What instructions has the Prime Minister given to the OBR for it to produce that forecast? What has she informed it of her new policy for Brexit?
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: Foreign Trade
Christopher Michael Leslie (Labour, Centre-left): The Prime Minister has been forced to admit that market access will be less. She wants to be straight with the public. This time last year, she promised that we would have "the same benefits in terms of that free access to trade." Does she regret that?
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: Foreign Trade
Diana Ruth Johnson (Labour, Centre-left): Siemens is doing great work in east Yorkshire—in Hull, with a renewables factory, and in Goole, with plans for a train factory—so will the Prime Minister tell me whether she believes there will be the same access to European markets for Siemens once we have left the EU in March 2019?
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: International Affairs
Peter John Kyle (Labour, Centre-left): The European Union has published the draft text of its legal stance of its negotiating position. The Prime Minister makes a speech, which does give more detail, but is still full of ambiguity. When will she publish the legal text of her negotiating stance?
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: Foreign Trade
Angela Christine Smith (Labour, Centre-left): It is obvious that the Prime Minister sees a US trade deal as something of a priority, so will she guarantee that there will be no sacrifice of either the interests of UK farmers or our animal welfare and environmental standards in order to secure such a deal?
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: Foreign Trade
Helen Catherine Goodman (Labour, Centre-left): Yesterday, I had an email from a senior businessman in the north-east, who says that the Prime Minister and her Cabinet "seem to ignore…the real nature of global trade today…Our businesses wishing to trade with China or the USA build new facilities there" They do not "send goods halfway around the globe…We…want…to share in existing EU arrangements" Why does the Prime Minister not start listening to the CBI and the chambers of commerce?
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: International Affairs
Jenny Chapman (Labour, Centre-left): My hon. Friend the Member for Wolverhampton North East (Emma Reynolds) asked earlier where an example could be found of a border between jurisdictions. The Prime Minister gave the example of the border between Canada and the United States as being soft and frictionless. There are guns and armed customs guards on that border. Surely that is not what she has in mind? Can she perhaps find another example?
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: International Affairs
Stephen Creswell Timms (Labour, Centre-left): The reality, unfortunately, is that the hard Brexit that the Prime Minister is now pursuing will lead inexorably and inevitably to a hard border in Northern Ireland. Between Canada and the United States, there are border checks of exactly the kind that she rightly says—unlike the Foreign Secretary—that she does not want in Northern Ireland. Will she confirm that she cannot name a single example anywhere in the world of an international border with no customs union and no border checks? It is a fantasy.
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: Foreign Trade
Seema Malhotra-Saluja (Labour, Centre-left): The Prime Minister accepted in her Mansion House speech last week that the UK would not be able to trade on the same terms with the EU post Brexit. Under her Government’s calculations, how much of a hit will her Brexit be to the UK economy?
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: Macroeconomics
Stephen John Doughty (Labour, Centre-left): The Prime Minister has admitted that life will be different, so does she now accept her own Government’s comprehensive analysis, which many of us have been to see in the Treasury? It shows that the gains from trade will be offset by the losses and that there will be a hit to our economy in every scenario that involves leaving the single market and customs union—with borrowing going up, austerity continuing and deregulation coming through—and if not, can she explain how on earth this is in the national interest?
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: International Affairs
Wesley Paul William Streeting (Labour, Centre-left): At the time of the referendum, both Tony Blair and Sir John Major warned of exactly the scenario faced by the Prime Minister now in relation to the Northern Ireland-Republic border, which is presumably why a majority of people in Northern Ireland voted to remain in the European Union. If everything is as plain sailing as the Prime Minister suggests, why has the Foreign Secretary written her a memo entertaining the prospect of a hard border? Given that he has undertaken to publish that memo but has not found time to do so, perhaps the Prime Minister could prod him—or even jab him as hard as necessary—to get that memo out of him as soon as possible.
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: Foreign Trade
Thangam Elizabeth Rachel Debbonaire (Labour, Centre-left): What assessment have the Prime Minister and her colleague, the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, made of mitigating the impact of leaving the customs union on the creative industries, which are so important to my constituency?
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: Foreign Trade
David George Hanson (Labour, Centre-left): I support the Prime Minister’s objectives for Northern Ireland, but given the absence of a customs union, will she give us more detail about what will happen to the hundreds of lorries that go each day from Dún Laoghaire in Ireland to Holyhead, from Larne in Northern Ireland to Stranraer in Scotland, and from Belfast to Liverpool, because that is still not clear to the businesses running those operations?
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: Foreign Trade
Justin Piers Richard Madders (Labour, Centre-left): Vauxhall motors in my constituency is fighting for survival, and we desperately need future trading arrangements in the automotive sector to be no less favourable than they are now. Can the Prime Minister give a guarantee on that today?
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: International Affairs
Ruth Margaret Cadbury (Labour, Centre-left): We read in the Financial Times today that the United States "is offering Britain a worse ‘Open Skies’ deal" than the one we currently have as an EU member. Is that not a precursor to the hundreds of deals that the UK will have to negotiate once we leave the EU?
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: Macroeconomics
Daniel Stephen Zeichner (Labour, Centre-left): I think the Prime Minister has acknowledged that there will be costs to this process, but most people ask this reasonable question when incurring a cost: "How much?" The Government have made some projections, so if we randomly say that there will be a 4.8% cut to GDP, will she explain how much that would mean for every man, woman and child in this country?
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: Foreign Trade
Nicholas Dakin (Labour, Centre-left): I thank the Prime Minister for speaking to President Trump about his outrageous desire to slap punitive tariffs on UK steel and aluminium. What did he say, and what will she do, working without the EU27, both now and in the future, to ensure that such protectionism does not prosper in this world?
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: Foreign Trade
Gillian Furniss (Labour, Centre-left): In the light of the US President’s move to impose tariffs on steel and aluminium imports, will the Prime Minister rethink her strategy for a free trade deal with the US following Brexit? Will she act now to ensure that our steel industry is not plunged into crisis once more?
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: Foreign Trade
Martin David Whitfield (Labour, Centre-left): Thirty-nine bottles of Scottish whisky are exported abroad every second. As the seconds tick by until our departure, can the whisky industry look forward to the same benefits as now, or will it be in a worse position?
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: International Affairs
Paul John Sweeney (Labour, Centre-left): The UK already has some of the most unbalanced regional growth of any country in Europe, and the Prime Minister’s own Brexit analysis suggests that any deviation from the benefits of the single market and the customs union will only exacerbate that problem. Does she not agree that that is a dereliction of duty and that she should undertake to ensure there is no detriment to the nations and regions of the UK as a result of exiting the European Union?
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: International Affairs
Karin Marguerite Smyth (Labour, Centre-left): The Prime Minister said today that no one should doubt our commitment to the entirety of the joint report published in December. With regard to Ireland, paragraph 47 of the joint report stated: "The two Parties have carried out a mapping exercise, which shows that North-South cooperation relies to a significant extent on a common European Union legal and policy framework." Will she commit to publishing that mapping exercise?
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: International Affairs
Christian John Patrick Matheson (Labour, Centre-left): I have listened to the answers today, and I respectfully suggest to the Prime Minister that the policy of vague sloganising and keeping her fingers crossed that everything will be all right is simply insufficient. Will she confirm that no deal we get from the proposed solutions she has identified will be more advantageous, financially or economically, than our current position?
Points of Order — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: Environment
Chuka Harrison Umunna (Labour, Centre-left): On a point of order, Mr Speaker. Over the last few years, there have been several major water leaks and burst water mains causing severe disruption to my constituents, meaning that they cannot wash, cook and do the basic things that we take for granted in everyday life. Yesterday, over 20,000 homes across London, and indeed many others across the rest of the country, were left without water My constituency is served by Thames Water. This is the worst incident of its type and it is totally unacceptable. Although the snows, the freeze and the thaw have posed huge challenges, Ofwat said this afternoon that these companies have fallen far short in forward planning and giving the right support and communication to people. I am absolutely astounded, given the practical implications of this, that no Minister has come to the Dispatch Box today to explain what the Government are doing, or will do, to support people who have been going through hell over the last couple of days. At the very least, one would have thought that there would be some kind of public inquiry. People will be interested to know whether they will get compensation for what has happened. Can you assist me, Mr Speaker, by advising me how we might get a Minister to the Dispatch Box to explain what they are doing to address this serious situation?
Points of Order — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: Environment
Helen Elizabeth Hayes (Labour, Centre-left): Further to the point of order raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Streatham (Chuka Umunna), who is my constituency neighbour, Mr Speaker. Thousands of my constituents have been without water over the weekend, some since last Thursday. During that time, they have been unable to contact Thames Water by telephone or through the website, and they have not received any information on when supply will be restored or how to obtain bottled water. The BBC reported this morning that a hospital had to contact the water company by Twitter to request emergency supplies of water. There has been no clear protocol for ensuring that residents who are not able to collect water in person have access to clean and safe drinking water There are similar reports from across the country, including one that I received personally this evening from the water industry that up to 100,000 residents in Birmingham are at imminent risk of being without water as the thaw spreads. This is a national crisis in our water industry, which, it is clear, is not fit for purpose. I welcome your advice, Mr Speaker, on how we can secure the intervention and leadership that we need from the Government to get us through this crisis, and to ensure that we have a water industry that is fit for purpose.
Data Protection Bill [Lords] — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: Technology
Chinyelu Susan Onwurah (Labour, Centre-left): I am grateful to the Secretary of State for his opening remarks about the importance of the House supporting technology. He will know that data drives our economy and society in ways that people can find difficult to follow. The internet of things will increase exponentially the data trail we all leave, but the digital charter suggests only that private companies follow best practice. Does he not recognise the importance of data rights? Why is he not bringing forward a Bill of data rights?
Data Protection Bill [Lords] — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: Law and Crime
Andrew Francis Slaughter (Labour, Centre-left): The Secretary of State is not sounding any more convincing than he did in his statement on Thursday. Failure to proceed with part two of Leveson and section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013 is a disgusting and cowardly betrayal of the victims of media harassment. It does not even leave those victims in the same position as before, because since Leveson the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 has hobbled the ability of claimants in privacy and defamation actions to access no-win, no-fee representation. Therefore, section 40 is now the only way to ensure access to justice, which is as helpful to small publishers as it is to citizens. Why does the Secretary of State not put their interests before those of big newspaper groups, instead of currying favour for himself and his weak Government?
Data Protection Bill [Lords] — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: Government Operations
Christopher John Bryant (Labour, Centre-left): Was there not also a promise, in a sense, to Brian Leveson? The guarantee was that a single inquiry was to be carried out. I am sure that my hon. Friend has seen the correspondence in which Leveson himself says that he fundamentally disagrees with the Government’s position because the only regard in which he thinks the terms of reference should be changed is that they should be increased, so that we could see whether the Independent Press Standards Organisation was indeed any different from the Press Complaints Commission at all.