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European Union (Amendment) Bill

Debate on bills and Committee of the Whole House (HC) on Monday, 25 February 2008, in the House of Commons.
European Union (Amendment) Bill. Committee stage sixth day.
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Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
472 c842-74 
Session
2007-08
Department
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Legislative stage
Committee stage
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Related items
European Union (Amendment) Bill. (Explanatory note Bill 48-EN published).
Monday, 17 December 2007
Bills
House of Commons
Proceeding contributions
Mark Francois | 472 c843-4 (Link to this contribution) None the less, I see that further inspiration is being provided from elsewhere, so presumably when t...
Mark Francois | 472 c843 (Link to this contribution) In essence, the amendment seeks to strike out the provisions of the Lisbon treaty that increase the ...

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Mark Francois | 472 c842 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment No. 245, page 1, line 12, after 'excluding', insert—
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 472 c842-3 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following amendments: No. 246, page 1, line 12, after...
James Clappison | 472 c846 (Link to this contribution) I support amendment No. 245, which strikes at the heart of a long-standing problem in the EU: funds ...
Peter Bone | 472 c846 (Link to this contribution) (Wellingborough) (Con): Is not my hon. Friend's argument that aid is given to certain causes for pol...
Mark Francois | 472 c844-5 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend, as is his wont, makes an apposite point. In the British Cabinet, there is a Secretar...
Michael Moore | 472 c845-6 (Link to this contribution) It will not be a surprise to the hon. Member for Rayleigh (Mr. Francois) that there will never be co...
Peter Bone | 472 c850 (Link to this contribution) I am following carefully my hon. Friend's powerful speech. Is it not one of the problems with the ne...
James Clappison | 472 c850-1 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a germane point, which is relevant to the amendment. It does not matter what we...
Rob Marris | 472 c851-2 (Link to this contribution) I shall refer to the consolidated texts of the EU treaties as amended by the treaty of Lisbon, becau...
Mark Francois | 472 c852 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman and I are both minor veterans of Finance Bill Committees. I think that we have se...
James Clappison | 472 c846-9 (Link to this contribution) That is exactly the problem that amendment No. 245 confronts. Are we talking about aid given purely ...
Hugh Bayley | 472 c849 (Link to this contribution) The International Development Committee has conducted a number of inquiries into European Union aid....
James Clappison | 472 c849-50 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. He makes a further point in support of my own, as the Europe...
Mark Francois | 472 c852 (Link to this contribution) I have served on three such Committees. Perish the thought that anyone in the House should accuse th...
Rob Marris | 472 c852 (Link to this contribution) That exemplifies the hon. Gentleman's generosity, because I was accused of selective quoting in the ...
Peter Bone | 472 c853 (Link to this contribution) I do not know whether this is the problem with the European Union, or whether it is just a slip-up, ...
Rob Marris | 472 c853 (Link to this contribution) I am using the Stationery Office publication, which I obtained from the Vote Office. The hon. Gentle...
Mark Francois | 472 c852 (Link to this contribution) For the avoidance of doubt, the Government have been guilty of selective quoting throughout the enti...
Rob Marris | 472 c852-3 (Link to this contribution) I repeat my appreciation of the hon. Gentleman's generosity. I certainly do not answer directly for ...
Bob Spink | 472 c854 (Link to this contribution) In applying the argument that the EU seeks consistency between its various policies, is not the hon....
Peter Bone | 472 c853 (Link to this contribution) I do not know whether this is an unusual procedure, because I have just taken my copy from the Table...
Rob Marris | 472 c853-4 (Link to this contribution) I do not wish to prolong this exchange. As I said, I am not answerable for the Government. It is cle...
Peter Bone | 472 c854-5 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to be following the speech of the hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Rob Marri...
Bob Spink | 472 c855 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend just mentioned the Government side. Is he aware that in a recent review on the effect...
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 472 c855 (Link to this contribution) Order. The intervention is far too long. By including a great chunk of quotation, the hon. Gentleman...
Peter Bone | 472 c855-6 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend's intervention explains our dilemma. I do not blame the Government or Ministers, beca...
Peter Bone | 472 c856 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry; I did walk out earlier on. I was very cross. I have laid down in a darkened room, and I ...
Rob Marris | 472 c856 (Link to this contribution) Let me gently point out two things to the hon. Gentleman. First, I was on that Select Committee with...
Peter Bone | 472 c856-7 (Link to this contribution) I was aware of the hon. Gentleman's second point. The serious issue that we should confront as poli...
James Clappison | 472 c857 (Link to this contribution) Given that, beyond peradventure, the common foreign and security provisions are creating a situation...
Peter Bone | 472 c857 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that intervention. This is not happening by design or because Government Members ...
Hugh Bayley | 472 c857-8 (Link to this contribution) It is a special irony to hear so many Conservative Members getting to their feet to express the view...
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 472 c858 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman has been here long enough to get the nomenclature right. We do not refer t...
Rob Marris | 472 c862 (Link to this contribution) I imagine that the hon. Gentleman is speaking to amendment No. 245, which proposes to delete"““any p...
Douglas Carswell | 472 c862 (Link to this contribution) I was speaking specifically to the amendment, which seeks to establish a separation between the comm...
Rob Marris | 472 c860 (Link to this contribution) May I gently point out two matters? First, the common foreign policy of the European Union is decide...
Shailesh Vara | 472 c860 (Link to this contribution) I note the hon. Gentleman's point. On unanimity, I fully appreciate what is written in a treaty, but...
Shailesh Vara | 472 c860 (Link to this contribution) No, Sir Alan. I simply commented that I believed that my hon. Friend was making a valid point, which...
Douglas Carswell | 472 c861-2 (Link to this contribution) I wish to make a few succinct points in favour of the amendment. We need to keep separate the common...
Hugh Bayley | 472 c862 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman argues that we need to do more to ensure the eradication of poverty. The treaty s...
James Clappison | 472 c860 (Link to this contribution) We have had the argument previously and I do not want to go too far down that road, but, if my hon. ...
Shailesh Vara | 472 c860-1 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend and I hope that the Minister took those points on board. Let me revert ...
Bob Spink | 472 c859-60 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making a passionate and compelling speech about aid, but does he agree that trade ...
Shailesh Vara | 472 c859 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend. Not only is there a danger that assistance and aid is delayed, but ...
Shailesh Vara | 472 c860 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to my hon. Friend for making that powerful point, which endorses my point that it...
Hugh Bayley | 472 c858 (Link to this contribution) Proposed by the hon. Member—[Hon. Members: ““Right honourable””]—the right hon. Member for Wells (Mr...
Hugh Bayley | 472 c858 (Link to this contribution) I am really getting in trouble now. Sir Alan, I thank you—
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 472 c858 (Link to this contribution) Order. Does the hon. Gentleman want to take time out to think about this?
Hugh Bayley | 472 c858 (Link to this contribution) Sir Alan, I do not. I want to make progress on this point, and to do so quickly. The lead amendment...
Shailesh Vara | 472 c859 (Link to this contribution) I support the amendments tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for Rayleigh (Mr. Francois). I am parti...
Peter Bone | 472 c859 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making a powerful point. He gave an example of a significant split of 22 to five i...
James Clappison | 472 c866 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is making a forceful and thoughtful speech, but is he really saying that there is...
Jim Murphy | 472 c866-7 (Link to this contribution) We must continue to try to find ways to get money to individuals in the poorest nations and to the p...
Mark Francois | 472 c869 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure that the hon. Gentleman made that caveat at the time. Last Wednesday, the House would...
Mark Francois | 472 c868-9 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for his generous remarks about the style in which I introduced the ame...
Mark Francois | 472 c867 (Link to this contribution) I say to the Minister that we are opposed to this treaty because it transfers great powers from Brit...
Jim Murphy | 472 c867-8 (Link to this contribution) Again, the hon. Gentleman welcomes nothing in this treaty, be it on international development or for...
Douglas Carswell | 472 c862 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his helpful intervention. If we were to Europeanise international aid...
Peter Bone | 472 c863 (Link to this contribution) Is this not one of the problems involved in looking at the reality of the situation from a legalisti...
Douglas Carswell | 472 c863 (Link to this contribution) Again, I agree, and I shall be happy to take any further interventions. If we look at the efforts t...
Jim Murphy | 472 c863-5 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to have the opportunity once again to respond to a debate that has been interesting f...
James Clappison | 472 c862 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way. I shall give the House three quick examples: putting...
Douglas Carswell | 472 c862 (Link to this contribution) I am always willing to take interventions from either side of the Chamber.
William Cash | 472 c863 (Link to this contribution) I could give the House about 40 examples, and the hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Rob Mar...
Douglas Carswell | 472 c863 (Link to this contribution) Any other interventions? I am more than happy to take them.
Mark Francois | 472 c869-70 (Link to this contribution) I am coming to the hon. Gentleman—he does not need to anticipate me. The Minister blew the Governme...
Mark Francois | 472 c869 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister. During debate about rules of origin, the hon. Gentleman leapt to his ...
Jim Murphy | 472 c871 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman says that he knows, but his copy has not yet been opened. That might not translat...
Jim Murphy | 472 c871 (Link to this contribution) I know that many outside the House will pay great attention to the detail of which text we are readi...
Mark Francois | 472 c871 (Link to this contribution) As usual, my hon. Friend, with his experience of serving on the European Scrutiny Committee, makes a...
James Clappison | 472 c871 (Link to this contribution) Has my hon. Friend conducted detailed research on the history of judgments of the European Court of ...
Mark Francois | 472 c870-1 (Link to this contribution) As the shadow Minister for Europe, I know that there was a great deal of argument in the context of ...
Rob Marris | 472 c870 (Link to this contribution) Let me make three points. If the version of the consolidated treaties that the hon. Gentleman is bra...
Mark Francois | 472 c872 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment No. 248, in clause 2, page 1, line 12, after 'excluding', insert—
Mark Francois | 472 c871-2 (Link to this contribution) The sealed copy is not mine; I picked it up off the Table in the Chamber about half an hour ago. Thi...
Mark Francois | 472 c872-4 (Link to this contribution) I shall do my best to cover the key points in the five minutes that I have. The amendment would stri...
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 472 c872 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following amendments: No. 249, page 1, line 12, after...
Rob Marris | 472 c854 (Link to this contribution) Taken in totality, without rehearsing the debates that we have had in the House, the European Union ...
Mark Francois | 472 c869 (Link to this contribution) I am rather disappointed by that response, especially as the hon. Gentleman raised the matter. It is...
Shailesh Vara | 472 c844 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that if there was conflict of interest over limited resources, in the abse...
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 472 c860 (Link to this contribution) Order. The point that the hon. Member for Castle Point (Bob Spink) made did not strike me as going t...
Jim Murphy | 472 c865-6 (Link to this contribution) I apologise. Following a tour of the world's nations, I should have been able to distinguish between...
Rob Marris | 472 c869 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Subjects
Development aid
European Union
EU common foreign and security policy
EU institutions
Treaties
EU aid
Treaty of Lisbon
Legislation
European Union (Amendment) Bill 2007-08
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