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European Council — House of Commons, 2017-12-18
Topic: International Affairs
Geoffrey Robert Clifton-Brown (Conservative, Centre-right): I congratulate the Prime Minister on having got the negotiations so far. Will she confirm that two of the announcements that she has made today—namely, that we will have a humanitarian presence in the Mediterranean and will continue to provide official development assistance to Africa—signal this country’s intention to work with our European allies as closely as possible once we have left the EU?
European Council — House of Commons, 2017-12-18
Topic: Macroeconomics
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): The Government and I have said all along that we are looking for an agreement that is right for both goods and services because we recognise the important role that services play in the economy of the United Kingdom. We will be going in and negotiating for services and for goods.
European Council — House of Commons, 2017-12-18
Topic: Labor
William James Quince (Conservative, Centre-right): I very much welcome the Prime Minister’s statement, particularly her comments on workers’ rights and our intention to enhance them post-Brexit. Does she agree that, despite the bluster from the Labour party, this Government backing the Parental Bereavement (Leave and Pay) Bill is the first step in getting not just European-wide workers’ rights, but the best workers’ rights in the world?
European Council — House of Commons, 2017-12-18
Topic: Labor
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend makes a point about a matter that I know is of particular interest to him. He has campaigned on the issue and been a champion of these rights, and he is absolutely right. We will be looking to enhance workers’ rights. The Government have already taken steps to enhance workers’ rights in a number of other areas, including by commissioning the Matthew Taylor report. That is our commitment. It is not just words; we actually act.
European Council — House of Commons, 2017-12-18
Topic: Agriculture
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): We will be leaving the common fisheries policy—and, as I indicated, the CAP—on 29 March 2019. The arrangements that pertain to fisheries during that implementation period will, of course, be part of the negotiations for that implementation period. Leaving the CFP and the CAP gives us the opportunity, post-implementation period, to introduce arrangements that work for the United Kingdom. The Environment Secretary is discussing with the fishing and agriculture industries what those future arrangements should be.
European Council — House of Commons, 2017-12-18
Topic: Foreign Trade
Simon Richard Clarke (Conservative, Centre-right): People in Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland will give a warm welcome to the progress that has been made with the talks, and I thank the Prime Minister for that. They will also have noticed the scarcely concealed disdain from the Opposition for the progress that has been made. Does she agree that we are actually paving the way to delivering precisely what we want, which is good trade access without compromising control of our borders and laws?
European Council — House of Commons, 2017-12-18
Topic: International Affairs
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend is absolutely right. He puts it succinctly and very well indeed. We want to maintain good trade access, but we also want to be able to take back control of our borders and laws, and that is what we will do.
European Council — House of Commons, 2017-12-18
Topic: Labor
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): I have said on a number of occasions this afternoon that we will be bringing those workers’ rights that are in European Union law into UK law, so those rights will continue to exist. The party in this House that has voted against bringing those rights into UK law is the Labour party.
European Council — House of Commons, 2017-12-18
Topic: Foreign Trade
James Morris (Conservative, Centre-right): May I commend the Prime Minister for her statement? As she will be aware, the west midlands economy has been an export powerhouse for the UK, so as she moves towards vital trade talks in relation to us leaving the European Union, does she agree that it is important that west midlands business and west midlands regional government are engaged very much in those discussions so that the west midlands can maximise the benefit of Brexit?
European Council — House of Commons, 2017-12-18
Topic: Foreign Trade
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): I absolutely understand and recognise the importance of international trade to the west midlands, and I am very clear that, as we go forward in these negotiations, we will be ensuring that we are negotiating for the whole United Kingdom. We will be taking the interests of all parts of the United Kingdom, including the west midlands, into account.
European Council — House of Commons, 2017-12-18
Topic: Labor
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): These rights are enshrined in EU law at the moment. They will be brought forward into UK law in the EU withdrawal Bill, which we are putting through this House at the moment. This Government are committed to workers’ rights and are committed to enhancing worker’s rights. That is why I commissioned Matthew Taylor’s report.
European Council — House of Commons, 2017-12-18
Topic: Foreign Trade
Jeremy John Elton Lefroy (Conservative, Centre-right): May I congratulate the Prime Minister on the progress made? May I ask her, following the question from the right hon. Member for Wolverhampton South East (Mr McFadden), to state again that the best possible deal will include trade both in goods, in which we have a large deficit, and in services, which are vital to our economy and in which we have a surplus?
European Council — House of Commons, 2017-12-18
Topic: Foreign Trade
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): I am happy to reiterate that confirmation to my hon. Friend. What we will be looking for in our future partnership is obviously a trade arrangement and a security arrangement, but in the trade arrangement we will be talking about both goods and services. We recognise the importance of services to the UK economy.
European Council — House of Commons, 2017-12-18
Topic: Foreign Trade
Kelly Jane Tolhurst (Conservative, Centre-right): I congratulate the Prime Minister on the way that she has worked with the EU over the past few weeks and how she has moved things on to the next stage. Does she agree that during any implementation period, it is important and right that we do indeed negotiate trade deals with other parts of the world to make the most of these new opportunities, to benefit British business, our economy and, most importantly, the British people?
European Council — House of Commons, 2017-12-18
Topic: Foreign Trade
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Of course, the work on negotiating those trade deals—on looking to see what is possible—has already been started within the Department for International Trade by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State and the Ministers there. Only earlier last week, I was discussing with the President of Mexico that country’s desire to have a trade deal negotiated with us. It is one of the first countries to say that it wanted that. The point of the trade deals is exactly as my hon. Friend says: it is about bringing jobs, bringing prosperity and improving people’s lives.
European Council — House of Commons, 2017-12-18
Topic: International Affairs
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): I am very clear about what we want to achieve in our negotiations. We will be working with our European friends and allies to ensure that the result of that negotiation is indeed a good deal for the United Kingdom. [Interruption.] Well, I think they will, because a good deal for the UK is a good deal for the EU as well.
European Council — House of Commons, 2017-12-18
Topic: Macroeconomics
Paul Masterton (Conservative, Centre-right): Does my right hon. Friend agree that her phase 1 deal was a victory for pragmatism over purist ideology? Will she commit our Government to continuing in the same vein throughout these negotiations, putting jobs and economic prosperity at the heart of Brexit Britain?
European Council — House of Commons, 2017-12-18
Topic: International Affairs
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): I am very happy to give that commitment. What is important as we go through these negotiations is that we are very clear about what is in the British national interest, but willing to be very pragmatic and practical about that because we want to ensure that we get a good deal. I believe not only that we will get a good deal with the European Union, but that we have an ambitious and bright future for this country outside the European Union.
European Council — House of Commons, 2017-12-18
Topic: International Affairs
Robert Alexander Courts (Conservative, Centre-right): I congratulate the Prime Minister on this agreement, particularly with regard to reciprocal rights for UK and EU nationals. Does she agree that both for UK nationals abroad and for much-valued European members of our communities here, such as those in west Oxfordshire, this agreement represents security and reassurance?
European Council — House of Commons, 2017-12-18
Topic: International Affairs
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): Regardless of whether somebody voted leave or remain, I think the key focus for us all now is to ensure that we get the best possible deal for the United Kingdom as we leave the European Union. That is what the Government are focused on, and that is what we are going to do.
European Council — House of Commons, 2017-12-18
Topic: Foreign Trade
Robert Edward Jenrick (Conservative, Centre-right): Never have my constituents in Newark been so grateful to wake up to Jean-Claude Juncker as they were a week ago on Friday, when they saw the Prime Minister shake hands with him. Looking to the future, as she goes to strike a comprehensive free trade deal, does she agree that although businesses in Newark would like a seamless transition, they would also like us to strike out and have enough capacity to become a more innovative country, rather than aligning solely with the European Union?
European Council — House of Commons, 2017-12-18
Topic: Technology
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): I think that there are many areas in which we in the UK are already showing our ability to innovate. We have great, world-leading businesses at the cutting edge of technology in, for example, the automotive industry, and in other areas. Of course, once we leave the European Union, I want to encourage that innovation and that creativity, because I want to ensure that we see a brighter future for this country, and exactly that sort of innovation and creativity can help to encourage that.
European Council — House of Commons, 2017-12-18
Topic: Foreign Trade
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): No. There have been various stages to the negotiation. I set out the framework for that future trade relationship in my Florence speech in September, and we will of course now negotiate the further details of it.
European Council — House of Commons, 2017-12-18
Topic: International Affairs
Kevin John Foster (Conservative, Centre-right): I welcome the Prime Minister’s statement, and the progress that has been made in the negotiations. I was particularly pleased to hear reference to Russia and to the fact that we are looking to continue our co-operation. At the European Council, did she reassure our European partners that we maintain our absolute commitment to the defence of Europe, based on the bedrock of the north Atlantic treaty?
European Council — House of Commons, 2017-12-18
Topic: Foreign Trade
James Roger Cartlidge (Conservative, Centre-right): I warmly congratulate my right hon. Friend on securing progress, which was strongly welcomed by businesses in South Suffolk. On the point raised by the right hon. Member for Wolverhampton South East (Mr McFadden) and my hon. Friend the Member for Stafford (Jeremy Lefroy) about services, does she agree that not only do we need to have services in the future agreement, but—given that our surplus with the EU is £15.5 billion and rising rapidly—we need to have the very best possible access for that dynamic part of our economy?
European Council — House of Commons, 2017-12-18
Topic: Foreign Trade
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): I absolutely agree, and I fully recognise not only the importance of the role that services play in our economy, but the fact that the balance of relationship with the European Union in services is different from that in goods. Services are a great part of our economy. I want to ensure that we continue to have good trading relationships in services and that we look at how we can enhance our trading relationships in services around the rest of the world.
European Council — House of Commons, 2017-12-18
Topic: International Affairs
Nigel Martin Evans (Conservative, Centre-right): I know I can be a little slow at times, but I am finding it incredibly difficult to discern what the policy of Her Majesty’s Opposition is to Brexit, as it changes depending on whom I am listening to—
European Council — House of Commons, 2017-12-18
Topic: International Affairs
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): As the right hon. Gentleman knows, we believe that we can actually deliver on having no hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland through the overall relationship that we negotiate between the UK and the European Union. Failing that, we will look at specific solutions that match the unique circumstances of Northern Ireland, and failing that, we will move to the concept of full alignment, which is about having the same objectives on both sides. If he carries on reading the progress report, it makes it clear how that would operate: it could be UK-wide or, with the agreement of the Northern Ireland Executive and Assembly, it could be specific to Northern Ireland.
European Council — House of Commons, 2017-12-18
Topic: Foreign Trade
Edward John Comport Argar (Conservative, Centre-right): I welcome the sensible and pragmatic agreement on phase 1 that my right hon. Friend has secured. Opposition Members confidently, and wrongly, suggested she could not do that, and yet again, as on so much, she has proved them wrong. Just as she has delivered for the UK on phase 1, will the Prime Minister reaffirm her determination to prove them wrong again and secure a good trade deal in phase 2, in line with her Lancaster House speech?
European Council — House of Commons, 2017-12-18
Topic: Foreign Trade
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): Yes, I can confirm to my hon. Friend that the principles set out in the Lancaster House speech continue to apply. Obviously, I elaborated on those in the Florence speech, and we will be continuing to do so as we move forward into those negotiations. I believe we will achieve an ambitious comprehensive free trade agreement with the European Union, because I think it is in their interests as well as ours.
European Council — House of Commons, 2017-12-18
Topic: Labor
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): The negotiations that we have been having with the European Union have not covered workers’ rights. Workers’ rights as they exist in EU law will be brought into UK law through the Bill that is going through Parliament. We already have a situation in the United Kingdom where, in some areas, we have better rights for workers than exist in the European Union, and we will continue to enhance those rights.
European Council — House of Commons, 2017-12-18
Topic: International Affairs
Matthew Robert Warman (Conservative, Centre-right): For the Prime Minister’s negotiations to be meaningful, they must of course include considering the possibility of a no-deal scenario, but does she agree with me that the pragmatism shown by both sides last week demonstrates that such an outcome is now considerably less likely?
European Council — House of Commons, 2017-12-18
Topic: International Affairs
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend is right. We have to prepare for all contingencies and continue to include among them the possibility of no deal, but what has been shown by the phase 1 negotiations is that, with perseverance and commitment on both sides, we can reach agreement.
European Council — House of Commons, 2017-12-18
Topic: International Affairs
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Lady seems to have forgotten one thing: this Parliament voted overwhelmingly for a vote to take place in a referendum on our membership of the European Union. That vote took place, and it was a close vote, but the majority voted to leave the European Union. I think—and I have always felt this—that in other circumstances when other countries in the EU held a referendum on new treaties and came out against them but the EU basically told them to go back and think again is not the right way. If the British people have voted to leave, we should leave.
European Council — House of Commons, 2017-12-18
Topic: International Affairs
Nigel Paul Huddleston (Conservative, Centre-right): I congratulate the Prime Minister on the practical and sensible approach she has adopted towards the Brexit negotiations, as opposed to the flip-flopping, contradictions and wholly unrealistic expectations we have heard from the Opposition parties. Does she agree that if a party wishes to position itself as the party of remain, it ought just to be honest and come out and say so?
European Council — House of Commons, 2017-12-18
Topic: International Affairs
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend. The flip-flopping just this weekend from the Labour party shows that it cannot make up its mind what its view is on Brexit. That is all the more reason why it is a good job we are in government and not Labour.
European Council — House of Commons, 2017-12-18
Topic: International Affairs
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): I think what the hon. Lady is trying to get at is whether it will be possible to do what we have said we will deliver for Northern Ireland and Ireland. The answer is yes, and we have already set out some ways in which it could be done.
European Council — House of Commons, 2017-12-18
Topic: Foreign Trade
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): The progress report that was agreed between the United Kingdom and the EU was clear about the significance not just of north-south trade but of maintaining east-west trade. I and the Government are very clear about the need to maintain not just the constitutional integrity of the United Kingdom, but the economic integrity of the United Kingdom.
European Council — House of Commons, 2017-12-18
Topic: International Affairs
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): As I indicated in response to an earlier question, the reference to full alignment in the progress report is not the first option in ensuring that there is no hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland. We believe that we can achieve that through the overall relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union. That is what we will be working for.
European Council — House of Commons, 2017-12-18
Topic: Education
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): If I heard the hon. Gentleman correctly, he was not correct at the beginning of his question. In 2009-10, the number of non-UK EU higher education students in the UK was 100,275. In the 2015-16 academic year, the figure had gone up to 112,410.
European Council — House of Commons, 2017-12-18
Topic: Macroeconomics
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): As the hon. Gentleman says, we have negotiated in phase 1 a financial settlement that is representative of the commitments I said we would honour over this period. It is there in the context of the future deal being agreed, but I am optimistic we will agree that future deal.
European Council — House of Commons, 2017-12-18
Topic: International Affairs
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): I was interested to note the comments, made by a number of other countries, that the future relationship we will negotiate with the European Union would, as the hon. Gentleman says, be a tailor-made or bespoke arrangement for the United Kingdom. I assure him that not only will I be having interaction with the other EU27 leaders, but that Government Ministers will be meeting their opposite numbers and talking to them about the significance of the continued relationship with the UK and the EU.
European Council — House of Commons, 2017-12-18
Topic: International Affairs
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): I said in my statement that for the remaining three years of this budget plan, we will be maintaining access to the Erasmus programme. For the future, it is one of the programmes that will be a part of the negotiations on our future relationship.
European Council — House of Commons, 2017-12-18
Topic: Foreign Trade
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): We recognise the importance of this particular industry. Part of the trade talks and negotiations will be looking at the basis on which trade will carry on between the remaining European Union member states and the United Kingdom. That is the same in any trade agreement that a country enters into.
Grenfell Tower and Building Safety — House of Commons, 2017-12-18
Topic: Social Welfare
William James Quince (Conservative, Centre-right): Will the Secretary of State confirm that he still regularly meets the victim groups and is really listening to what they have to say? To pick up on a point he made, is he ensuring that, despite the understandable questioning from the Opposition, people will not be pressed in any way to take unsuitable accommodation for political expediency?
Grenfell Tower and Building Safety — House of Commons, 2017-12-18
Topic: Social Welfare
Sajid Javid (Conservative, Centre-right): I can absolutely confirm that to my hon. Friend. I have regularly met victim groups and members of the community, and so has my hon. Friend the Member for Reading West (Alok Sharma), the Minister with responsibility for Grenfell victims. He meets members of the community on an almost weekly basis. I can also confirm that we will not press anyone to take any type of accommodation with which they are not comfortable.
Grenfell Tower and Building Safety — House of Commons, 2017-12-18
Topic: Government Operations
Sajid Javid (Conservative, Centre-right): As I have said a number of times at the Dispatch Box, we have asked local authorities to contact us, and more than 30 have done so. Ten have given us detailed information and three have given us the actual information we require. We are in active discussions.
Grenfell Tower and Building Safety — House of Commons, 2017-12-18
Topic: Government Operations
Sajid Javid (Conservative, Centre-right): I meet the local council regularly and I also have discussions with the taskforce. A number of points were set out in the taskforce report, and the local authority has set up a group to go through each in detail. As we get further details, I will bring them to the House.
Grenfell Tower and Building Safety — House of Commons, 2017-12-18
Topic: Environment
Sajid Javid (Conservative, Centre-right): First, it is not for me, as a Minister, to recommend what type of cladding should or should not be used. That work should be done by experts, which is why the expert panel that we established, which is still in place, has issued guidance ever since the date of the tragedy. It continues to update guidance on what cladding should be used at all times.
Grenfell Tower and Building Safety — House of Commons, 2017-12-18
Topic: Macroeconomics
Sajid Javid (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Gentleman will know that local authorities have rightly been taking account of the advice that has been issued by the expert panel, which is constantly updated as the panel gets new information. On the availability of money or financial flexibility, we are, as I said earlier, working with a number of local authorities.