Leaving the EU: Security, Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice

I appreciate the right hon. Gentleman’s agreement with my position so far. He makes an important ...

Will the Minister give me some reassurance on the issue of the European arrest warrant? Before th...

As the right hon. Gentleman will be aware, we are at the start of negotiations. I cannot predict ...

To reinforce that point, will the Minister concede that what we are talking about is a system of ...

As ever, my hon. Friend makes a really important point, and he is absolutely right. Some members ...

The Minister will be aware that one consequence of leaving the European Union, as the Prime Minis...

I appreciate my right hon. and learned Friend’s point. One piece of work we will do during the ne...

Will the Minister give way?

I just want to make a bit more progress.

The Prime Minister set out in her speech yesterday...

I just want to follow up on the incredibly important question posed by the right hon. and learned...

The right hon. Gentleman tempts me to give a running commentary and to prejudge the outcome of th...

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I will make a bit of progress before I give way again.

Our current model of EU co-operation...

I am looking at Europol’s website, which states:

“We do this by assisting the European Unio...

If the right hon. Gentleman looks further into Europol’s website, he will see that there are alre...

Further to the question of the right hon. and learned Member for Beaconsfield (Mr Grieve), the Pr...

It is worth the right hon. Gentleman looking at the Europol website that the right hon. Member fo...

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I will give way to the Chair of the Home Affairs Committee in a moment.

I appreciate that s...

The Minister will know that although several countries have operational and strategic partnership...

I am not ruling anything in or out; I am looking to make sure that we get the bespoke deal that i...

While my right hon. Friend does not want to prejudge negotiations, does not his decision to opt i...

My hon. Friend makes a good point. As I clearly outlined in the Committee, the decision to opt in...

The National Crime Agency has said that joint investigation teams are incredibly important to the...

When I talk to the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners and the National Police Chiefs C...

My right hon. Friend is actually making a very good case for why we ought to stay in the EU, but ...

I have been very clear about this, as has the Prime Minister: the country has voted to leave the ...

Does my right hon. Friend agree that of course matters relating to all the important questions he...

My hon. Friend makes an important point in that the work we have done across Europe—we have been ...

I am glad that my right hon. Friend makes that point. May I make a point in relation to the inter...

My hon. Friend makes a very good point in that there are different agreements in different parts ...

The official Opposition welcome this debate. In the run-up to the referendum in June last year an...

Does the hon. Lady agree that for us in Northern Ireland, it is especially key that we keep our r...

The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. There are three main issues on which the Opposition seek ...

I think that the hon. Lady has just made the point that I wanted to raise, which is that that pri...

I have confidence that the European arrest warrant is far more powerful than any other extraditio...

Is the hon. Lady aware that Rob Wainwright said last year that negotiating security pacts from ou...

The hon. and learned Lady is absolutely right. I agree with her that this simply is not good enou...

My hon. Friend is making an impressive and powerful speech on this issue. Some of us may not now ...

My right hon. Friend is absolutely right. We are simply not getting any guarantees from our Gover...

I now have to announce the result of the Division deferred from a previous day. On the motion rel...

If I may say so to the hon. Member for West Ham (Lyn Brown), whose speech I listened to very care...

Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that we need to put all the pressure we can on President Trum...

I very strongly agree with the hon. Gentleman. That is very important. I have high hopes that the...

Before my right hon. Friend gets back to his main oration, I would like to draw attention to the ...

My right hon. Friend is spot-on, and I am sure these matters will play out. If one looks at the w...

It is a pleasure and an honour to follow the right hon. Member for Mid Sussex (Sir Nicholas Soame...

It is always a pleasure to follow the hon. and learned Member for Edinburgh South West (Joanna Ch...

My hon. Friend is making some good points, but would he concur, given that we are fellow members ...

I thought that that issue might be raised, and I was going to say that that does not alter the im...

It is a great pleasure to serve under the hon. Gentleman’s chairmanship of the Justice Committee....

I accept that that is a significant issue, but the two amendments achieved two things. First, the...

It is indeed a privilege, as mentioned by others, to serve on the Justice Committee under the hon...

It is certainly clear from the available evidence that the Government will need to take that nece...

I hear what the hon. Gentleman says about Norway, but is he aware that the Prime Minister, in her...

Prior to the referendum, neither the hon. and learned Lady, the Prime Minister nor I would have w...

It is a pleasure to follow my fellow Select Committee Chair, the hon. Member for Bromley and Chis...

I congratulate my right hon. Friend on all the excellent work that she is doing as Chair of the H...

I thank my right hon. Friend for what he has said, and commend him for his many years of fantasti...

The right hon. Lady will be well aware that there are a number of different options for immigrati...

I am glad that a fellow member of the Home Affairs Committee has reminded me to say that people a...

It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford (Yvette...

My hon. Friend makes a powerful point. Is he aware that similar evidence exists in relation to th...

I entirely agree with my hon. Friend. In fact, I do not think that a single senior police officer...

The hon. Gentleman is the Chamber’s resident expert on Prüm. Does he agree that it is important t...

Pending the negotiations, we should continue down the path of integration in all these policing a...

I am not an expert on this subject, but there is concern that, under the European arrest warrant,...

I am sure we will hear my right hon. Friend’s expertise in the defence field in a few moments. Th...

Perhaps my hon. Friend would like to know that that was the view of the Criminal Solicitors Assoc...

I thank my hon. Friend for his helpful intervention.

There are many other measures that I c...

This is a very important debate and, as it comes the day after the Prime Minister’s very importan...

It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Leeds Central (Hilary Benn), and may I comme...

On the issue of the European arrest warrant, which was debated extensively in previous Parliament...

I thank my hon. Friend for intervening. The Prime Minister said yesterday in her speech that this...

Does my hon. Friend agree that UK intelligence agencies, including individuals working in my cons...

My hon. Friend is a great champion of the security services, particularly those that are in his c...

It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Bath (Ben Howlett). I rise to speak in this ...

It is an enormous pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent Central (Tristram Hunt). ...

I thank the hon. Gentleman, who is my constituency neighbour, for giving way. Does he agree that ...

Absolutely. We are indebted to the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent Central for that. We have all t...

First, I would like to pay a personal tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Stoke-on-Trent Cen...

I think that, in the aftermath of the 11 September attacks, it was recognised that something had ...

There is another problem that the European Scrutiny Committee has looked at in the past, when we ...

My hon. Friend makes an important point.

I have listened with great interest to what has be...

Does my hon. Friend agree that the EAW has benefited some of our constituents? Four days before C...

I do not deny that for one moment; the EAW has led to some very important results for us, where w...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Monmouth (David T. C. Davies), even if I do not al...

It is an honour to follow the hon. Member for Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East (Stuart...

As the hon. Member for Hampstead and Kilburn (Tulip Siddiq) observed, one of the disadvantages of...

Will my hon. Friend confirm that polling released this afternoon shows widespread support in Scot...

Indeed. Members will think that we prepared that exchange, but we did not. It is worth quoting th...

The Prime Minister made it clear in her speech yesterday that one of her objectives in exiting th...

It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Richmond Park (Sarah Olney). Her constituenc...

Many years ago, when I was a member of the Home Affairs Committee, we went to Holland to see a de...

My hon. Friend is right. He knew about it then, and I have reminded him.

I know the Ministe...

This has been an important debate, if a somewhat select affair, and there have been many excellen...

May I say what an excellent debate this has been? It has been a debate of very high calibre. Inde...

In my speech, and when the Minister came before the European Scrutiny Committee, I referred to th...

As my hon. Friend pointed out, there is clearly now a change in the staffing of COREPER so far as...

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Forgive me, but I have very little time.

Again, that will be a good basis for continuing th...

I will be brief as I know that the Minister has limited time. Will he clarify one point? He said ...

The right hon. Gentleman is absolutely right to upbraid me. The negotiations are at such an early...

For clarification, the Exiting the European Union Committee has been given evidence suggesting th...

The position, as I understand it, is as I have just stated, but now that the right hon. Lady has ...