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Topical Questions — House of Commons, 2016-11-03
Topic: Mixed Topics
Questions: Will my right hon. Friend support any of the home nations who choose to display a poppy next week to remember all those from every part of the world who sacrificed so much? Will she also pass on to FIFA the anger that there is in this House and among our constituents?; Many grassroots music venues are struggling, with 40% closing in London alone over the past decade. There are many pressures on venues, but will the Minister look specifically at the call from the Music Venue Trust for PRS for Music to scrap its minimum tariff, which is hitting grassroots venues very hard, and to introduce the 3% fee across the board?; On a recent visit to Lambourn I saw at first hand the significance of the horse-racing industry to our rural economy, so will the Minister confirm that the proposed replacement of the horse-racing betting levy is on track for April 2017?; Eureka!, the much loved National Children’s Museum in my constituency, receives no day-to-day funding from central Government, despite being a national museum. Will the Secretary of State review this decision so that as many families as possible can enjoy Eureka! without the barrier of an entrance fee?; Sheffield has a proud and fabulous offer of cultural and sporting services, and many young people have benefited from Labour’s scheme to give them five hours a week of cultural experience to improve access to the arts. What is the Minister doing to monitor the level of access to culture and the arts, and to enable young people from all backgrounds to gain access to them?; The Minister will be aware that a devastating fire destroyed one of the most historic and best loved parts of Exeter city centre last Friday and Saturday. The owners have said that they intend to restore the building to its former glory, which is very welcome, but will she guarantee that English Heritage will make absolutely sure on behalf of my constituents that it is restored to the highest possible standard?
Tracey Elizabeth Anne Crouch (Conservative, Centre-right): I thank the hon. Gentleman for his question. As I said earlier, I meet people from all the devolved Administrations, and I will be doing so again later this month. We have seen increasing numbers of tourists visiting Northern Ireland, specifically to see the Titanic exhibition. We will continue to market Northern Ireland as a great place to visit.
Trading Relationships: Israel — House of Commons, 2016-11-03
Topic: Mixed Topics
Mark Robert Timothy Garnier (Conservative, Centre-right): The right hon. Lady is quite right to mention our growing relationship. In cyber-security, in particular, we saw a 24% growth in exports last year. I was recently in Tel Aviv and had the opportunity to visit a tech accelerator hub that is sponsored by Barclays. It is very encouraging to see that private sector relationship, which is something we will continue to encourage.
Bilateral Trade Deals — House of Commons, 2016-11-03
Topic: Mixed Topics
Thomas Christopher John Pursglove (Conservative, Centre-right): I am very grateful to the Secretary of State for that answer. Does he agree that the decision to leave the European Union presents this country with an enormous opportunity to re-engage with our Commonwealth friends and to forge proper trading links with them once more?
Bilateral Trade Deals — House of Commons, 2016-11-03
Topic: Mixed Topics
Liam Fox (Conservative, Centre-right): Yes, we are keen to seize all the opportunities that leaving the EU presents, and so, too, are many of our international partners, who recognise the attractiveness of doing business with the UK. I will be accompanying the Prime Minister on a trip next week to India to take forward some of those opportunities.
Bilateral Trade Deals — House of Commons, 2016-11-03
Topic: Mixed Topics
Michael Louis David Fabricant (Conservative, Centre-right): As my right hon. Friend has already said, to do a bilateral trade deal we need to be out of the European Union. Does he therefore deplore, as I do, the High Court’s decision this morning to rule against the Government and say that the will of the people in the EU referendum on 23 June is still subject to parliamentary approval?
Trade Negotiations: Parliamentary Vote — House of Commons, 2016-11-03
Topic: Other
Questions: What discussions he has had with the Leader of the House on Parliament debating and voting on the outcome of trade negotiations before they are signed.
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Before I call the right hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington (Tom Brake), I am moved to congratulate him on his achievement in winning the yellow jersey for his performance yesterday on the British Legion stationary bicycle. It was a remarkable athletic feat on his part.
EU Customs Union — House of Commons, 2016-11-03
Topic: Mixed Topics
Questions: What assessment he has made of the international trade opportunities available to the UK in the event of the UK leaving the EU customs union.
Liam Fox (Conservative, Centre-right): The people of Britain voted to leave the European Union and that is what we will do. It is the job of this Department to maximise the UK’s trade opportunities, whatever the relationship with the EU that the Government ultimately adopt. The Prime Minister has made it clear that the UK’s agreement with the EU will get the best deal for Britain at home and abroad.
Air Quality — House of Commons, 2016-11-03
Topic: Other
Questions: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps her Department will take to improve air quality after her defeat in the High Court on 2 November.
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Order. The hon. Gentleman is chuntering about diesel cars and who might be occupying them, but we have a Minister at the Dispatch Box, and she is a doctor as well. We are going to hear from her.
Air Quality — House of Commons, 2016-11-03
Topic: Other
Questions: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps her Department will take to improve air quality after her defeat in the High Court on 2 November.
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Order. I gently remind colleagues that the business statement will follow these exchanges and after that there are two further ministerial statements before we reach the first of the two debates to take place under the auspices of the Backbench Business Committee. Therefore there is a premium upon time, necessitating brevity from Back and Front Benches alike, now to be brilliantly exemplified, I am certain, by Mr Jason McCartney.
Air Quality — House of Commons, 2016-11-03
Topic: Housing
Questions: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps her Department will take to improve air quality after her defeat in the High Court on 2 November.
Jason McCartney (Conservative, Centre-right): Labour-run Kirklees Council keeps forcing through huge housing developments on greenfield sites in my constituency, especially around Lindley, with scant regard for the impact on air quality. Can we please put air quality at the forefront of planning reforms, and can we have a clean air zone in Huddersfield?
Air Quality — House of Commons, 2016-11-03
Topic: Mixed Topics
Questions: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps her Department will take to improve air quality after her defeat in the High Court on 2 November.
Andrew Edmund Armstrong Selous (Conservative, Centre-right): May I urge the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to liaise very carefully with the Department for Transport and the Treasury in the 20 days before the autumn statement to ensure that we get some good news on 23 November? Will the Minister also remember that the reason many people drive older diesel vehicles is that they are on lower incomes and those vehicles are their means of getting to work? We need to bear that in mind when we take action.
Air Quality — House of Commons, 2016-11-03
Topic: Other
Questions: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps her Department will take to improve air quality after her defeat in the High Court on 2 November.
Thérèse Anne Coffey (Conservative, Centre-right): I must be careful when dealing with such issues in Wales as they are the responsibility of the Welsh Assembly Government, but I am sure that officials will have heard what the hon. Gentleman had to say.
Air Quality — House of Commons, 2016-11-03
Topic: Other
Questions: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps her Department will take to improve air quality after her defeat in the High Court on 2 November.
Thérèse Anne Coffey (Conservative, Centre-right): I ask that because I am really pleased that so many Members in the House today are concerned about this issue, and I hope that we can all become champions on it with our local councils. I am happy to be held to account on this, but we must work together to make sure that we make the difference.
Air Quality — House of Commons, 2016-11-03
Topic: Mixed Topics
Questions: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps her Department will take to improve air quality after her defeat in the High Court on 2 November.
Thérèse Anne Coffey (Conservative, Centre-right): As I have just been reminded, Nissan will continue to manufacture cars in this country; we have Toyota in Derbyshire, in the constituency of my hon. Friend the Member for South Derbyshire (Heather Wheeler); and we are already leading the way on ultra-low emission vehicles. Long may that continue.
Air Quality — House of Commons, 2016-11-03
Topic: Other
Questions: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps her Department will take to improve air quality after her defeat in the High Court on 2 November.
Thérèse Anne Coffey (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Gentleman makes a fair point, but we do have to have a sense of urgency on this issue, and I am absolutely committed to prioritising it. It is a top priority for me and the Secretary of State. I will echo what the Prime Minister said: "We have taken action, but there is more to do and we will do it."—[Official Report, 2 November 2016; Vol. 616, c. 887.]
Prison Safety and Reform — House of Commons, 2016-11-03
Topic: Mixed Topics
Lucy Claire Leigh (Frazer) (Conservative, Centre-right): I welcome the White Paper, which rightly recognises the need to educate prisoners and help them into work. It also identifies existing good practice in the relationships between prisons and businesses. The Lord Chancellor mentioned the scaffolding work; another example would be the restaurant at HMP Cardiff. How will she build on the current schemes and incentivise employers to work more closely with prisons?
Counter-Daesh Campaign: Iraq and Syria — House of Commons, 2016-11-03
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Order. This is an extremely important and sensitive matter, but may I just point out to the House that there are several Members on both sides of the House who entered the Chamber after the Foreign Secretary began his statement, but who apparently, in defiance of all convention, expect to be called, which they should not? Although this is incredibly important, we have important further business to which to proceed, so I appeal to Members to please ask brief, single-sentence supplementary questions without preamble no matter how elevated their status in the House. I call Mr Crispin Blunt.
Counter-Daesh Campaign: Iraq and Syria — House of Commons, 2016-11-03
Topic: Mixed Topics
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend is completely right. We have a proud record in this country of contributing to humanitarian relief and to the care of refugees—the single biggest contributor after the United States. As the House will know, £2.3 billion is the total envelope of our commitment to humanitarian relief for the area.
Counter-Daesh Campaign: Iraq and Syria — House of Commons, 2016-11-03
Topic: Other
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): We are looking at that. It will not surprise the hon. Gentleman to know that the advice I have had so far is that that would almost certainly not work, but I have asked our officials to go back and see what they can do. I have studied the proposal with interest and with care. The hon. Gentleman should not get his hopes too high, but we should rule nothing out.
Counter-Daesh Campaign: Iraq and Syria — House of Commons, 2016-11-03
Topic: Civil Rights
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): It is vital that freedom of religious belief should be guaranteed under the Iraqi constitution and under the future Syrian constitution. That is why I made the point to the hon. Member for Ochil and South Perthshire (Ms Ahmed-Sheikh) about the pluralism of the High Negotiations Committee. That is something that we have stressed time and again to Prime Minister Abadi and it is very much part of his manifesto and his plans for the country.
Counter-Daesh Campaign: Iraq and Syria — House of Commons, 2016-11-03
Topic: Mixed Topics
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): Again, that is an extremely apposite question, because that is what some members of Daesh are already doing: they are acquiring razors, shaving off their beards and trying to melt back into the community. We must understand that this will be a long struggle for hearts and minds and for changing their mindset, but the UK is in there for the long haul; we are going to stay the course.
Counter-Daesh Campaign: Iraq and Syria — House of Commons, 2016-11-03
Topic: Mixed Topics
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): I am most grateful to the Foreign Secretary and to colleagues. In the presence of the Foreign Secretary, I should advise him that in his absence in the Robing Room on Tuesday afternoon, the Colombian President acknowledged in the most approving terms his book on Churchill. I trust that, as a result of that, the right hon. Gentleman will go about his business for the remainder of the day, as he should, with an additional glint in his eye and spring in his step.
Leaving the EU: Financial Services — House of Commons, 2016-11-03
Topic: Domestic Commerce
James Michael Ellwood Berry (Conservative, Centre-right): Does the hon. Lady agree that keeping the financial services passport is vital for many people who work in the sector, not least a lot of my constituents, and that people in business would be the first to say that in financial negotiations it is not wise to give a running commentary?
Leaving the EU: Financial Services — House of Commons, 2016-11-03
Topic: Domestic Commerce
Desmond Angus Swayne (Conservative, Centre-right): I do not want to diminish the importance of the financial sector, particular that which operates and needs to continue to operate in Europe, but overwhelmingly domestic financial services have no involvement with the continent at all. Their export potential is virtually nil, in the words of the Commission itself. To what extent does the impressive list of employees that the hon. Lady has given divide between those that are involved entirely in the domestic market and those that are involved in transactions overseas?
Leaving the EU: Financial Services — House of Commons, 2016-11-03
Topic: Domestic Commerce
William Nigel Paul Cash (Conservative, Centre-right): I am sure my hon. Friend is aware that there is not a single market in insurance, and that 87% of all insurers operate through subsidiaries in the EU, rather than in branches dependent on passporting?
Leaving the EU: Financial Services — House of Commons, 2016-11-03
Topic: Mixed Topics
William Nigel Paul Cash (Conservative, Centre-right): There seems to me to be a great deal of overstatement and exaggeration in this arena. The media have tended to overstate difficulties in this area to a very significant extent This is about confidence. For nearly 400 years, up to our entry to the EU under the European Communities Act 1972, the United Kingdom was able to run one of the most effective—if not the most effective—financial services centres, the City of London. The idea that somehow or other, because of the intervention of the European Union, things will get better is completely outweighed by the disaster area and dysfunctionality that the EU now represents Only a few days ago, in Bratislava, I heard the chairman of the European Parliament’s Committee on Budgets saying that the EU needed an "electric shock", that there was far too much regulation, that it was far too intrusive, and so on. The chairman of ECOFIN said that the EU was facing the biggest economic and political crisis in modern political history. All that is true. The idea that we would not have to leave the European Union—thank heavens the British people made their own judgment about that—and the construal of our leaving the European Union as a disaster in itself simply belie the facts The reality is that EU legislation is deeply embedded in the financial services sector. Just to state the obvious, not only are we obliged under sections 2 and 3 of the 1972 Act to absorb all the legislation—I warned in a letter to the Financial Times in 2008 that that would lead to the kind of difficulties we are now experiencing with regard to financial services—but because of the Court of Justice we have to obey all the regulations. The massive regulatory overkill of the whole of the financial services sector as a result of that arrangement is an undoubted disadvantage. There are huge benefits to be gained by being outside the European Union, which I will come to in a moment.
Leaving the EU: Financial Services — House of Commons, 2016-11-03
Topic: Other
Eleanor Fulton Laing (Conservative, Centre-right): Order. I appreciate that the hon. Member for Wirral South (Alison McGovern) is in some difficulty because the clock is broken, but she is handling it with great competence. I have been watching. She has taken an intervention and can speak until about 2.25 pm and 30 seconds. I thank her for dealing with the matter so well.
Leaving the EU: Financial Services — House of Commons, 2016-11-03
Topic: Domestic Commerce
Thomas Georg John Tugendhat (Conservative, Centre-right): The clock is back. The excitement! The hare is running! I should briefly declare an interest. I have at times worked in the financial services industry. I draw Members’ attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests Like so many other hon. Members, I am here to talk about financial services outside the capital. I pay tribute to the hon. Member for Leicester West (Liz Kendall), who spoke very powerfully about that. In my constituency, I drive past the Fidelity asset management centre, which is based in Hildenborough and employs nearly 1,000 people. Financial services also support economies such as the legal economy, accountancy and various other innovators. As we have discovered from the success of start-ups in the United States, access to financial services is often a trigger for improvements in the tech sector.
Leaving the EU: Financial Services — House of Commons, 2016-11-03
Topic: Domestic Commerce
Robert James MacGillivray Neill (Conservative, Centre-right): I apologise for not being in the Chamber earlier because of Select Committee duties. Does my hon. Friend concede that it is important that we link access to financial services with access to other professional services including legal services, which are critical to building the infrastructure backing up the financial services sector?
Leaving the EU: Financial Services — House of Commons, 2016-11-03
Topic: Other
Eleanor Fulton Laing (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. and learned Lady has just proved herself to be a very adept and clever lawyer. Coming from me, that is a compliment. She will appreciate, as the House appreciates, that the point she made is not a point of order and does not, fortunately, require any comment from the Chair. However, she has made her point and it will be on the record that an historic event occurred 49 years ago today. I am sure the House will note that and, in its own way, celebrate it.
Care Homes for Older People — House of Commons, 2016-11-03
Topic: Mixed Topics
Jeremy Mark Quin (Conservative, Centre-right): Will my hon. Friend or one of her ministerial colleagues kindly meet me and my hon. Friend the Member for Crawley (Henry Smith) specifically on that point in relation to Orchid View? We would be most grateful if that was possible.
Security — House of Commons, 2016-12-07
Topic: Mixed Topics
James Peter Brokenshire (Conservative, Centre-right): I entirely agree with the right hon. Gentleman’s sentiments. The video is utterly repugnant. In my statement yesterday, I pointed out that support for such dissident groups "remains limited, despite their attempts to seek legitimacy in a wider society which continues to reject their use of violence."—[Official Report, 6 December 2016; Vol. 618, c. 12WS.] That contemptible video was intended to be a show of strength, but I see it as a sign of weakness, and it is important that the PSNI continues its investigations.
Security — House of Commons, 2016-12-07
Topic: Other
James Peter Brokenshire (Conservative, Centre-right): I thank the hon. Lady for that. Although I did not have the privilege of meeting Austin Hunter, I know, from all the powerful testimony that I have heard, not only that he was an incredible journalist, but how warm and human he was. It was a tragic accident, and I join the hon. Lady in sending my condolences to his friends and family, and everyone who knew him. He clearly made a remarkable contribution, and he will be missed by so many.
Security Service Personnel — House of Commons, 2016-12-07
Topic: Mixed Topics
Questions: What discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the protection of data relating to security service personnel who are based in Northern Ireland.
James Peter Brokenshire (Conservative, Centre-right): The safety and security of all those serving in the PSNI, prisons and security forces in Northern Ireland is of the utmost importance to this Government. We keep under careful review arrangements and advice to support their protection.
Stormont House Agreement — House of Commons, 2016-12-07
Topic: Mixed Topics
James Peter Brokenshire (Conservative, Centre-right): I continue to meet victims groups, the Executive and others to establish the legacy bodies set out in the Stormont House agreement. When I am confident that there is sufficient political consensus, I intend to move to a public phase, to allow wider community consideration and to build confidence and momentum behind the creation of the new legacy bodies.
Stormont House Agreement — House of Commons, 2016-12-07
Topic: Mixed Topics
James Peter Brokenshire (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend makes a powerful and important point. I agree that the legacy bodies must be balanced and proportionate. That was at the heart of the phraseology in the Stormont House agreement and will be important in delivering that more balanced approach.
Stormont House Agreement — House of Commons, 2016-12-07
Topic: Mixed Topics
James Peter Brokenshire (Conservative, Centre-right): I thank the hon. Gentleman for drawing to the attention of the House the sad death of Danny Murphy. I am sure that we all extend our condolences to his friends and family. It is worth reflecting at this time on the powerful way in which sport can unite people and bring them together.
Stormont House Agreement — House of Commons, 2016-12-07
Topic: Mixed Topics
James Peter Brokenshire (Conservative, Centre-right): It is important for everyone to work together to move the process on. That is why I continue to commit significant efforts and work to doing just that. The hon. Gentleman is right: at present, the system is heavily focused on the 10% rather than the 90%, and the balanced, proportionate measures that I put forward will assist in changing that.