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Debate on bills and Committee of the Whole House (HC) on Wednesday, 26 January 2011, in the House of Commons.
European Union Bill. Committee stage fourth day. Clause 7: Decisions Requiring Approval By Act, debated and agreed to. Clause 8: Decisions Under Article 352 of TFEU, debated and agreed to. Clause 9: Approval Required In Connection With Title V Of Part 3 Of TFEU, discussed with new clause 5: Approval Required In Connection With Title V, debated and agreed to. Clauses 10 and 14 agreed to. Committee to sit again tomorrow
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Parliamentary proceeding
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522 c332-403 
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2010-12
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Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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Committee stage
Procedure
New clauses
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House of Commons chamber
Related items
European Union Bill 2010-12. Explanatory notes also published (Bill 106-EN).
Thursday, 11 November 2010
Bills
House of Commons
The EU Bill: Restrictions on treaties and decisions relating to the EU. European Scrutiny Committee fifteenth report with formal minutes and written evidence.
Wednesday, 19 January 2011
Parliamentary committees
House of Commons
Proceeding contributions
Chris Heaton-Harris | 522 c332-3 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to come back for a third day of excitement this week, talking about Europe. I thoug...
Andrew Percy | 522 c333 (Link to this contribution) I, too, wish we could be free of the European Union, but that is a debate for another day. Does my h...

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Chris Heaton-Harris | 522 c333-4 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. I know that there is to be a Backbench Business Committee debate on the matter in the not-to...
William Cash | 522 c334 (Link to this contribution) I rise to support my hon. Friend the Member for Daventry (Chris Heaton-Harris) in the arguments that...
Chris Heaton-Harris | 522 c332 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment 24, in clause 7, page 6, line 7, at end insert—
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 522 c332 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 522 c334 (Link to this contribution) Order. May I ask which amendment the hon. Gentleman is speaking to?
William Cash | 522 c334 (Link to this contribution) I am speaking about the general principle relating to the question of co-decision in the context of ...
Chris Heaton-Harris | 522 c338 (Link to this contribution) I do not want at all to talk about the detail of the European convention on human rights, but I make...
David Lidington | 522 c338 (Link to this contribution) I look forward with relish to studying the European Scrutiny Committee's conclusions. There are alr...
William Cash | 522 c337 (Link to this contribution) I have already been helpful to the Minister in limiting my earlier remarks. Having said that, I woul...
William Cash | 522 c338 (Link to this contribution) There is an obligation to answer this point.
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 522 c338 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is supposed to be making an intervention, not a speech.
David Lidington | 522 c337 (Link to this contribution) I will give way, but a large group of amendments is listed on the Order Paper for consideration late...
David Lidington | 522 c337 (Link to this contribution) There is a clear statement on the face of the treaty that the EU shall accede to the European conven...
David Lidington | 522 c336 (Link to this contribution) I agree. Quite apart from any constitutional or legal significance, it would be politically and dipl...
James Clappison | 522 c336 (Link to this contribution) May I say—I hope the Minister will appreciate this—that he has been extremely assiduous in attending...
David Lidington | 522 c336 (Link to this contribution) Certainly I agree that it is important to keep in our minds the distinction between the member state...
James Clappison | 522 c335 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that in his usual persuasive way my right hon. Friend will give us a very good account of ...
Jacob Rees-Mogg | 522 c337 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister clarify Her Majesty's Government's view of the Lisbon treaty, because it seems to ...
Jacob Rees-Mogg | 522 c336-7 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for giving way and for his patient responses to so many questions. I wonder whe...
David Lidington | 522 c335 (Link to this contribution) Amendments 24 and 25 would require that before the EU can accede to the European convention on human...
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 522 c335 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will be able to talk about clause 7 when we come on to clause stand part.
William Cash | 522 c334 (Link to this contribution) I am dealing specifically with amendment 24, moved by my hon. Friend the Member for Daventry, and su...
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 522 c334 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman knows that when we are dealing with amendments, we deal with the amendment...
William Cash | 522 c335 (Link to this contribution) That is exactly the point. The combined effect of the amendments that we are discussing is directly ...
Lord Dodds of Duncairn | 522 c334 (Link to this contribution) On the point made by the hon. Member for Daventry (Chris Heaton-Harris) about needing an Act of Parl...
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 522 c335 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman seems to be talking about clause 9, but we are talking about two specific ...
Chris Heaton-Harris | 522 c339 (Link to this contribution) I very much apologise for not being at the European Scrutiny Committee meeting, but I was getting re...
William Cash | 522 c339 (Link to this contribution) I shall discuss my earlier point about EU accession to the ECHR in the context of the broad view tha...
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 522 c339 (Link to this contribution) That brings us to the debate on clause 7 stand part. If I am reading the feeling of the Committee co...
Chris Heaton-Harris | 522 c338 (Link to this contribution) I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn
William Cash | 522 c341-2 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely, and it could not have been better put. I am grateful to my hon. and learned Friend, who ...
Stephen Phillips | 522 c340 (Link to this contribution) I hesitate to intervene on such an erudite speech by my hon. Friend, but one problem that the Minist...
William Cash | 522 c339-40 (Link to this contribution) I could not agree more. My hon. Friend is right, and I am glad that the Minister also nods in agreem...
David Lidington | 522 c338 (Link to this contribution) I completely understand my hon. Friend's motives, and if I may say so without bringing him into comp...
Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 522 c342 (Link to this contribution) This may be one of the rare occasions when those on my Front Bench do not object to my intervention....
James Clappison | 522 c367 (Link to this contribution) Notwithstanding all the assurances, such as the ones that we just heard from the hon. Member for Che...
William Cash | 522 c367 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Cheltenham mentioned the European Scrutiny Committee, so may I say that the inve...
James Clappison | 522 c367-8 (Link to this contribution) To be fair to the hon. Member for Cheltenham, he has an honourable and consistent approach to these ...
Kelvin Hopkins | 522 c368 (Link to this contribution) I apologise for missing the start of the hon. Gentleman's speech. I agree with what he says about op...
James Clappison | 522 c368 (Link to this contribution) My constituency does not have a fishing port, but my understanding is that there are no demonstratio...
Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 522 c368 (Link to this contribution) I confirm that people in Edgbaston also do not talk much about fishing policy. The reason why the h...
James Clappison | 522 c368 (Link to this contribution) That is why the opt-out is so very important, and that point brings me to the subject of this amendm...
Chris Bryant | 522 c354 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. There are many different things in the European Union—many determined in treaty—that I w...
Wayne David | 522 c354 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making a very important point. He has used the example of Strasbourg, but he is ma...
Chris Bryant | 522 c353-4 (Link to this contribution) Referendums in different countries operate in different ways. I think that I have heard the Minister...
Nick de Bois | 522 c353 (Link to this contribution) How does the hon. Gentleman reconcile his statements about our having a referendum, when lots of neg...
Chris Bryant | 522 c352-3 (Link to this contribution) The Bill does make reference to treaty change, and understandably so. I thought that the whole argum...
Chris Bryant | 522 c353 (Link to this contribution) I think that the hon. Gentleman misunderstands me. I am sure that that is my fault, because I cannot...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 522 c353 (Link to this contribution) The issue that the hon. Gentleman raises in his example is clear. He suggests that the French would ...
Chris Bryant | 522 c353 (Link to this contribution) That little speech was the definition of ““denial””, because there is no prospect of the French volu...
William Cash | 522 c355 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment 53, page 6, line 41, leave out '(3) to (5)' and insert '(3) and (4)'.
Chris Bryant | 522 c355 (Link to this contribution) It is a delight to agree with my hon. Friend. I do not think that she and I have ever agreed on anyt...
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 522 c355 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:
Mark Reckless | 522 c354 (Link to this contribution) I would suggest that the hon. Gentleman has not entirely seen my point. A referendum is only one lev...
Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 522 c354 (Link to this contribution) I want to make an offer to Members of running classes on how the EU works. Anybody who has ever work...
Chris Bryant | 522 c354 (Link to this contribution) No, because one requires treaty change and the other does not. If we have already locked ourselves d...
James Clappison | 522 c365 (Link to this contribution) We come to a new subject area, that of freedom, security and justice, which used to be known as the ...
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 522 c362-5 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:
James Clappison | 522 c362 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment 14, page 7, line 33, leave out from first 'of' to end of line 44 and insert"...
William Cash | 522 c362 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to seek to withdraw the amendment in the circumstances, without prejudice to my concerns ...
David Lidington | 522 c360-2 (Link to this contribution) Given the history of the article's use, I do not blame my hon. Friend for being properly sceptical a...
William Cash | 522 c360 (Link to this contribution) I understand exactly what the Minister says, but I am sure he will concede that that is all without ...
David Lidington | 522 c359-60 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friends the Members for Stone (Mr Cash) and for Daventry (Chris Heaton-Harr...
William Cash | 522 c355-8 (Link to this contribution) The amendments have been tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for Daventry (Chris Heaton-Harris) and ...
James Clappison | 522 c367 (Link to this contribution) My humble amendment 14 proposes only that the House should have a vote on such matters. The hon. Gen...
William Cash | 522 c366 (Link to this contribution) Does the word ““lie”” crop up in that context?
Martin Horwood | 522 c366-7 (Link to this contribution) One additional safeguard that was introduced in the Lisbon treaty is emergency brake clauses, which ...
James Clappison | 522 c366 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that I was credulous. We were perhaps willing to believe and wanted to believe what we w...
James Clappison | 522 c365 (Link to this contribution) I certainly give way to the hon. Lady, who I know has an interest in these matters.
Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 522 c365 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way and for tabling the amendment. Does he share my s...
William Cash | 522 c342-3 (Link to this contribution) I am expressing the view of academics who have studied this matter, perhaps more than the hon. Lady....
Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 522 c343 (Link to this contribution) I accept that there is a potential conflict, but given that we are already a signatory to the ECHR a...
William Cash | 522 c343 (Link to this contribution) I accept that. That complexity does exist, and part of the difficulty with the whole issue of human ...
Stephen Phillips | 522 c343 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the problem that is being expressed is that there will be two competi...
William Cash | 522 c343 (Link to this contribution) I have made that point and am entirely grateful to my hon. and learned Friend for repeating it. The ...
Richard Shepherd | 522 c343 (Link to this contribution) I am not a lawyer, as is evident, but the great difficulty is that we have a common-law tradition, a...
Richard Shepherd | 522 c343 (Link to this contribution) There is indeed a conflict of courts, which has been a matter of considerable concern for a number o...
William Cash | 522 c343 (Link to this contribution) Indeed, and I add that my hon. Friend, who is a member of the Joint Committee on Human Rights, has b...
William Cash | 522 c344 (Link to this contribution) Indeed, and that is because the abstract principles contained in the charter, the ECHR convention an...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 522 c344 (Link to this contribution) My issue with my hon. Friend's eloquent speech is that I do not understand the word ““process”” that...
William Cash | 522 c344-5 (Link to this contribution) With great respect to my hon. Friend, he came into the Chamber somewhat after my hon. Friend the Mem...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 522 c345 (Link to this contribution) I will have my say—don't worry.
William Cash | 522 c345 (Link to this contribution) Certainly. My hon. Friend says, ““We are where we are.”” In this debate and in the debate on the ind...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 522 c345 (Link to this contribution) If the remarks of my hon. Friend the Member for Daventry (Chris Heaton-Harris) were so fundamental, ...
William Cash | 522 c345-6 (Link to this contribution) The short answer is that my hon. Friend the Member for Daventry did not do so because he had dealt w...
Wayne David | 522 c346-8 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Member for Stone (Mr Cash) for providing an indication of what his Committee's rece...
David Lidington | 522 c348-9 (Link to this contribution) May I first respond to my hon. Friend the Member for Stone (Mr Cash)? He spoke with his characterist...
David Lidington | 522 c349-50 (Link to this contribution) What is clear in the Bill is that anything under article 48(7) relating to the giving up of a UK vet...
Chris Bryant | 522 c350 (Link to this contribution) Is it not ludicrous that there are so many Commissioners? There are far too many of them to give the...
David Lidington | 522 c350-1 (Link to this contribution) I am conscious of the pressure on time and I am going to try to make some progress. Let me respond ...
David Lidington | 522 c350 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant), my predecessor in office, puts a strongly held view with...
Chris Bryant | 522 c351-2 (Link to this contribution) I did not intend to speak, but as the Minister refused to give way—it was the first time I had ever ...
Stephen Phillips | 522 c352 (Link to this contribution) As always, I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way, but has he not just made the ca...
David Lidington | 522 c351 (Link to this contribution) There will be other opportunities for us to debate the number of advocates-general, and I am sure th...
Chris Bryant | 522 c352 (Link to this contribution) May I just clear something up? I am not right honourable, although many hon. Members have recently r...
Chris Bryant | 522 c352 (Link to this contribution) I do not think you are able to call one, Mr Evans. The hon. and learned Member for Sleaford and Nor...
Dominic Raab | 522 c377 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention; his point is well made. Obviously, if we decided to op...
William Cash | 522 c377-8 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friends the Members for Hertsmere (Mr Clappison), for Daventry (Chris Heaton-...
Dominic Raab | 522 c377 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention and I agree. Indeed, senior members of the judiciar...
Kelvin Hopkins | 522 c377 (Link to this contribution) Before the hon. Gentleman concludes, I want to support very strongly what he has been saying. An imp...
William Cash | 522 c378-9 (Link to this contribution) That is an interesting insight. However, I shall not follow the hon. Lady down that route as it woul...
Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 522 c378 (Link to this contribution) I have no idea who held the seat in the 19th century, but I am encouraged, on matters European, that...
William Cash | 522 c378 (Link to this contribution) Except the BBC, as my hon. Friend says, because it has not given any attention to the legislation. ...
Chris Heaton-Harris | 522 c374 (Link to this contribution) I tend to agree with the hon. Lady. When she reads the written ministerial statement, she will see t...
James Clappison | 522 c374 (Link to this contribution) The opt-in arrangements are found in the ““Protocol on the position of the UK and Ireland in respect...
Chris Heaton-Harris | 522 c374 (Link to this contribution) That is possibly the case. I do not wish to give a definite answer, because I am not the expert on t...
Dominic Raab | 522 c375 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Evans, for calling me to speak in this debate on clause 9, which is one of the Bill's ...
Chris Heaton-Harris | 522 c374-5 (Link to this contribution) I am looking forward to the Minister clarifying that for us all. I was discussing the questions abou...
Dominic Raab | 522 c375-7 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention and I agree entirely with him. We can already see an ex...
Nick de Bois | 522 c375 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has touched on a matter of great importance. I welcome the safeguards. It seems to me...
Bernard Jenkin | 522 c377 (Link to this contribution) In the next group of amendments we will discuss this same topic in relation to a possible Act of Par...
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 522 c372 (Link to this contribution) Order. I remind the Committee that there will be no separate clause 9 stand part debate. If anyone w...
Wayne David | 522 c371 (Link to this contribution) I would like to say a few additional words about clause 9, which follows on directly from what has b...
James Clappison | 522 c369-71 (Link to this contribution) Why should we want to opt in to something and then apply the emergency brake? I do not understand th...
Martin Horwood | 522 c369 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is being extremely generous in giving way. He is extolling the virtue of opt-outs...
James Clappison | 522 c369 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to the hon. Gentleman, but I want to make a bit of progress.
James Clappison | 522 c368-9 (Link to this contribution) During the period that the hon. Gentleman's party was in office, we tried informal consultations, fo...
Wayne David | 522 c368 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Stone (Mr Cash) made an indirect reference to the opt-in by the Government on th...
Chris Heaton-Harris | 522 c372-4 (Link to this contribution) I shall speak mainly to the amendments I have tabled, talk about the general opt-ins and ask a coupl...
Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 522 c374 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the hon. Gentleman will tell me if I say something that is incorrect, because I have not...
James Clappison | 522 c393 (Link to this contribution) As I said earlier, I do not intend to press the amendment to a vote. I want to make progress and for...
David Lidington | 522 c391-3 (Link to this contribution) Yes, the default position is that we stay opted in. We have to take a decision one way or the other,...
Wayne David | 522 c391 (Link to this contribution) This is a very important point. One legal opinion says that if we reach that point in 2014 and the G...
Bernard Jenkin | 522 c395 (Link to this contribution) I thought the exchanges between the two Front Benchers about the real nature of the coalition agreem...
William Cash | 522 c394-5 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that my hon. Friend will recall what the Minister said about the European Affairs Committe...
Bernard Jenkin | 522 c394 (Link to this contribution) Amendments 82, 83 and 84 concern what the Minister set out in a statement last week, in which he des...
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 522 c393-4 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:
Wayne David | 522 c397 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is making a logical, coherent argument. The Government's position on the Bill, as...
Bernard Jenkin | 522 c395-7 (Link to this contribution) I am perfectly prepared to accept that some Liberal Democrats have compromised considerably on the B...
Martin Horwood | 522 c395 (Link to this contribution) In the spirit of coalition, which the hon. Gentleman so obviously and positively espouses, does he a...
James Clappison | 522 c397 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making an excellent speech and some telling points. Does he agree that the EU is b...
William Cash | 522 c397-8 (Link to this contribution) In the light of my hon. Friend's intelligent observations, does he also agree that the process of Eu...
Bernard Jenkin | 522 c397 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. We are going into this with our eyes wide open, except that this...
Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 522 c398 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a powerful speech and his amendments are sensible. If his colleagues on the...
David Lidington | 522 c399-400 (Link to this contribution) The decision on whether to exercise the bloc opt-out is important and sensitive for the United Kingd...
Bernard Jenkin | 522 c398-9 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure how to answer that question. If the hon. Lady does not mind, I will continue my remark...
Chris Heaton-Harris | 522 c400 (Link to this contribution) I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. Amendment proposed: ...
William Cash | 522 c388 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is getting on to a very sensitive point, and I quite understand the sensitiviti...
David Lidington | 522 c388 (Link to this contribution) If my hon. Friend will forgive me, I would like to answer one hon. Friend before I give way to anoth...
James Clappison | 522 c387-8 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is being most courteous in giving way. On the question of where the national in...
David Lidington | 522 c388 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend puts his point trenchantly. I am not going to make any secret of the fact that the ha...
James Clappison | 522 c386 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend said ““where the UK has an opt-in,”” but if I may correct him, I think that he meant ...
David Lidington | 522 c386-7 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right to make that correction. He is also right when he refers to the importance o...
David Lidington | 522 c386 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. I signed off a letter to him earlier today responding to these points, whic...
James Clappison | 522 c386 (Link to this contribution) Can I take it from what my right hon. Friend has just said about the European investigation order th...
David Lidington | 522 c389-91 (Link to this contribution) No, I do not think that my hon. Friend should jump to that conclusion. In yesterday's debate, I cite...
Henry Smith | 522 c391 (Link to this contribution) Would my hon. Friend not consider including that in the Bill?
David Lidington | 522 c389 (Link to this contribution) It is a bit rich for the hon. Gentleman to intervene in that fashion. He and I know that, in regard ...
David Lidington | 522 c389 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady says that the Labour Government never sought to compromise. That might explain their r...
David Lidington | 522 c388 (Link to this contribution) I disagree with my hon. Friend's statement either that we face an impossible dilemma or that the sit...
Wayne David | 522 c388-9 (Link to this contribution) When the Minister says ““people all political persuasions””, he certainly should not include those o...
William Cash | 522 c380 (Link to this contribution) That is such a good example. In fact, I was in that debate with my hon. Friend—I was unable to vote ...
Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 522 c381 (Link to this contribution) At the risk of being accused of encouraging the hon. Gentleman, I must say that when Ministers are t...
William Cash | 522 c379-80 (Link to this contribution) I am so glad to hear that. I was not precisely aware of that part of the judgment, but my hon. Frien...
James Clappison | 522 c380 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has made some powerful points that are entirely borne out by my much lesser experienc...
Charlie Elphicke | 522 c382 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend the Member for Stone (Mr Cash) is much concerned about Members from all parts of the ...
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 522 c381 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Lady's comments are going much wider than the amendments currently before us. I beli...
William Cash | 522 c381-2 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that, Mr Evans, because otherwise the hon. Lady might have tempted me yet again. S...
William Cash | 522 c379 (Link to this contribution) —and civil. Let us not get carried away by a few bits of paper and a few words in a Bill. They say t...
Chris Heaton-Harris | 522 c379 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that my hon. Friend is aware of the findings of the German federal constitutional court, w...
Charlie Elphicke | 522 c385 (Link to this contribution) May I just say how much I welcome the strong policy on asylum? Asylum has been a substantial problem...
David Lidington | 522 c385 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to be distracted from the subject matter of the debate—clause 9 and the amendments—so ...
Nick de Bois | 522 c385 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is well aware of my long-term interest in matters pertaining to the European ar...
David Lidington | 522 c385-6 (Link to this contribution) My answer to that is on two fronts. The EAW is, of course, a pre-Lisbon, pillar three arrangement. I...
Wayne David | 522 c386 (Link to this contribution) I have some sympathy in policy terms with the Government on the issue of the European investigation ...
David Lidington | 522 c386 (Link to this contribution) I cannot recall without advice whether the Committee had just been appointed but had not met, or whe...
Charlie Elphicke | 522 c382-3 (Link to this contribution) With the Prime Minister. In particular, I agree with his speech on 4 November 2009, in which he said...
David Lidington | 522 c383-4 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to all hon. Members who have taken part in the debate, and in particular to my hon. Fr...
Wayne David | 522 c335 (Link to this contribution) I would like to address my remarks to clauses 7, 8, 9 and 10, rather than to the amendments.
William Cash | 522 c335 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to endorse the view that has been expressed. I wanted to make a general point, and that i...
Mark Reckless | 522 c353 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman mentions that the dual site of the European Parliament is provided for in the tre...
Chris Bryant | 522 c354 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to the hon. Gentleman, then to my hon. Friend, and then please release me.
Bernard Jenkin | 522 c367 (Link to this contribution) I remember being told in the early 1990s that enlargement would have a decentralising effect on the ...
James Clappison | 522 c365-6 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady has updated my information, which only goes as far as 30 November, by which point ther...
Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 522 c349 (Link to this contribution) I apologise if I have missed something that the Minister has already said, but are the lists setting...
David Lidington | 522 c351 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that I am going to deny myself the pleasure of hearing a further explanation from the ho...
Richard Shepherd | 522 c352 (Link to this contribution) I do not understand this. The hon. Gentleman says, ““It is in the treaty”” but this Bill has nothing...
Martin Horwood | 522 c374 (Link to this contribution) I was interested by the intervention made by the hon. Member for Birmingham, Edgbaston (Ms Stuart). ...
David Lidington | 522 c391 (Link to this contribution) We are due to debate the measures later. The Government will have three options. They can decide to...
Jacob Rees-Mogg | 522 c389 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for giving way once more. Would he be kind enough to clarify this point about t...
David Lidington | 522 c337 (Link to this contribution) We certainly need to guard against that. The Government have accepted, as did the Conservative party...
Chris Heaton-Harris | 522 c358-9 (Link to this contribution) I will be brief, Mr Evans. I had quite a decent speech written on these amendments, but I want to mo...
Bernard Jenkin | 522 c397 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right. The Bill is completely inconsistent. Relatively tiny matters covered by...
Bernard Jenkin | 522 c398 (Link to this contribution) I fully agree with my hon. Friend, but I will try to avoid being drawn into that. The great skill in...
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