Government’s EU Exit Analysis

Before I was in this place, I held the post of Director of Public Prosecutions. We took leaks fro...

I have repeatedly raised concerns that the north-east and other regions will be hard hit by the v...

My hon. Friend demonstrates that hon. Members have been trying on behalf of their constituencies ...

The right hon. and learned Gentleman described his experience of dealing with leaks. Does he acce...

I agree. It is significant that the original documents that were requested last year were initial...

I will give way one more time and then make progress.

If the Government are eventually forced to release the impact assessments, as I suspect they will...

We will look at information when it is put into the public domain. We have been looking at analys...

I have taken a number of interventions and will make progress. I will allow interventions later, ...

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I will complete this point and then give way.

There is a serious point. Is it seriously Gov...

Before I give way, I will make one further point about the line of defence of rubbishing the anal...

I will give way to my hon. Friend the Member for Wirral South (Alison McGovern) and then to the h...

My right hon. and learned Friend makes the good point that, yesterday, we saw a pretty grim appro...

I do agree, and that is a very important point. Essentially, the OBR is saying that it cannot do ...

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I will give way in one minute, but may I just finish this point?

Having been a civil servan...

I thank the shadow Secretary of State for giving way. I agree with him on the important work of t...

I am grateful for that intervention. The hon. Lady will remember that one question I asked of the...

I thank the right hon. and learned Gentleman for giving way. Can he help us with this: has he est...

I am grateful for that intervention. I will answer it, and make a second point as I do so. This i...

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I promised that I would give way, and I will.

I am grateful to the right hon. and learned Gentleman. Is he aware that, this morning at Welsh qu...

I think that it is, because, otherwise, all that is available are the increasingly stale assessme...

I will press on. [Interruption.] I will give way once, twice and then a third time over there, ju...

The hon. Member for Arfon (Hywel Williams) makes an important point on where the devolved Adminis...

I am grateful for that intervention, because it is consistent with the point that was made earlie...

Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that if the Government had at their disposal any econ...

I am grateful for that intervention, and I agree that it would be highly likely that such materia...

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I will give way once more, and then I will get on to the third point.

I thank the right hon. and learned Gentleman for giving way. Is it his party’s policy to remain i...

Mr Speaker, I rather thought that the point of interventions was to engage in the debate that was...

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I will press on, but I will give way again in a minute.

As I have said, only question was a...

The Government will not be opposing this motion. As the motion is therefore expected to pass, I w...

We have heard many requests and demands for this information to be published here today and in th...

I personally have not yet seen such requests. We do intend to make this information available to ...

As the Minister is a former economist, can he persuade me that it will be worth my while to visit...

My right hon. Friend raises an interesting point. I would like to turn to the analysis itself, so...

I will give way in one moment.

The document is preliminary, unfinished and has only very re...

Since the Conservative party governs with the support of the 10 Democratic Unionist party Members...

The simple answer is no. We would make this information available to the whole House on the same ...

Will the Minister give way?

If the hon. Lady will give me one moment, I will give way. I just want to complete my point about...

Will the Minister give way?

I will give way to the hon. and learned Lady after I have given way to the hon. Member for Bristo...

I find this conspiracy theory so absurd. The Treasury published very clear and totally wrong shor...

My right hon. Friend makes his point well. I think that the point on which we would all agree is ...

I am so grateful to the Minister for being very patient and giving way to me, but I must press hi...

As we have said many times, the Government are informed by a wide range of analyses, but I am res...

I will give way to my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Rushcliffe (Mr Clarke) in a li...

Will the Minister give way?

Not right now.

Of course, there is a specific role for this sort of modelling, but it must ...

I am grateful to the Minister for giving way. Surely the million dollar question is this: if the ...

The Prime Minister has set out a very clear strategy for developing an FTA between the UK and the...

I thank my hon. Friend for announcing that the common-sense decision has been made overnight to s...

My right hon. and learned Friend knows a lot from his own experience as Chancellor about the conf...

There is another reason that this set of analyses is peculiar and quite different. I listened car...

My right hon. Friend makes an interesting point and I will leave it to Members to consider it whe...

I thank the Minister for giving way and for saying that the information will be made available to...

My hon. Friend makes her point very well. I do not have the answer to her question, but we can ce...

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I want to complete my remarks and give other hon. Members a chance to speak, but of course I give...

I assure the House that I and many of my colleagues have been to see the documents and discussed ...

Returning to the hard work of our officials, if every time any element of their work leaked we we...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way. I have to say that, of all the Ministers, I think...

I am grateful to my right hon. Friend, as always, for her kind praise, but I think I have already...

Will the Minister give way?

Will the Minister give way?

Not now. The public have voted through a referendum to leave the European Union. We must deliver ...

I am grateful for the chance to speak in this debate and I commend the main Opposition party for ...

May I ask the hon. Gentleman a very simple question? Does he condone or condemn the leaking of Go...

At this point, the answer is no: I neither condone nor condemn because I do not know what the cir...

Does the hon. Gentleman agree that there is a distinction between a leak and whistleblowing? Whis...

I am grateful for that intervention. We have to be careful about language. There is whistleblowin...

I agree with the hon. Gentleman that it is clearly important to get this information out into the...

Again, this may not be the time for that debate. My position is perfectly clear. We have the resu...

I listened to what the hon. Gentleman said earlier about the sector-by-sector reports and I think...

Part of the Government’s response earlier today to the disclosure of these documents was that the...

Will my hon. Friend give way?

May I deal with the first intervention first, please?

What I said was that the reason I had...

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I did say I would give way to my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Edinburgh South West (Joa...

As usual, my hon. Friend is being modest. He is not explaining to the House that he is a member o...

I am grateful for that intervention. I am aware of the time, and I do not want to impinge too muc...

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I will give way once more, but I hope the intervention is a bit more relevant than the earlier on...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his gracious approach to my intervention. It is just that he is co...

The reason that Conservative Back Benchers will abstain in this debate is that the Government Whi...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Glenrothes (Peter Grant), although obviously I did...

Will the right hon. Lady give way?

In a moment.

The reality of these documents, of course, is that finally it seems that our G...

My right hon. Friend said that the Prime Minister had not set out what she wanted. I contend that...

With great respect to my right hon. Friend, that is absolute nonsense, and the good people of thi...

The right hon. Lady is giving a passionate speech. The one thing that the Prime Minister has said...

I agree with the hon. Gentleman—I nearly called him my Friend, although on this he is, because he...

The right hon. Lady has hit on the heart of the problem, which is that the Government will not sa...

The hon. Lady is quite right—she can be my Friend in this debate, because she makes an important ...

I have huge respect for the right hon. Lady on this issue. Does she agree that we would not be he...

This is an astonishing idea. The right hon. Gentleman—he is definitely my Friend today—seems to b...

The Minister said that these analyses are provisional, incomplete and not fit for purpose, so is ...

Well, no, because I thought the conclusion to phase 1 was actually quite good, so I am certainly ...

I thank the right hon. Lady for giving way, and I am hoping that she might say that I can be her ...

The right hon. Gentleman and I used to be friends, because we used to be in coalition, so he can ...

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I will quickly give way before the bird lands.

I am grateful to the right hon. Lady for giving way. She is making a truly outstanding speech, an...

The hon. and learned Lady is right—she, too, could become my friend for the day. In all seriousne...

We are starting to have that very important discussion about the fact that, as I put it, the peop...

I agree with most of what the hon. Lady says. The point in all of this is that this has to come f...

It is a great pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Broxtowe (Anna Soubry), and I echo wha...

My right hon. Friend just pointed to the extraordinary circumstance whereby we see Ministers agai...

I agree absolutely. Indeed, I made the point yesterday about the importance of transparency and a...

I bring the right hon. Gentleman back to the issue of growth. Yesterday, the Minister said that a...

Indeed, that is the case. Ministers have made those arguments and, of course, when the growth is ...

May I take the right hon. Gentleman one step back? Does he now share the view of many right hon. ...

In retrospect, there is force in the right hon. Lady’s argument, but since the Government chose t...

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I call Rachel Maclean.

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Oops. I call Mr Kenneth Clarke. You were not on my list, but you have just been added.

2.31...

The Speaker got an ambiguous reply from me, and I will explain why in a moment, but first may I a...

Does the Father of the House agree that the extraordinary actions taken by the Governor of the Ba...

I must inform the House that there will be a six-minute limit after the current speech, and if pe...

I agree entirely with the hon. Lady. The Governor actually lessened the impact that the Bank fore...

Order. There is now a six-minute speaking limit. I call Emma Reynolds.

2.39 pm

As ever, Mr Deputy Speaker, it is a pleasure and a privilege to serve under your chairmanship. It...

My hon. Friend is making a very powerful and passionate speech. The report appears to highlight t...

I agree with my hon. Friend. As the right hon. Member for Broxtowe (Anna Soubry) said earlier, th...

Let me begin, Mr Deputy Speaker, by associating myself with what has been said by Members in all ...

Businesses always look at forecasts, do modelling, look at outcomes and then make investments acc...

The hon. Gentleman is right that businesses create forecasts, but they also understand and accept...

The one thing businesses want—this is the message I and others have received for a very long time...

I thank my right hon. Friend for that intervention. Absolutely: when we have spoken to businesses...

Does the hon. Lady not agree, however, that there is a difference between uncertainty in a macroe...

I agree that there are various areas where uncertainty can exist, but there is legal uncertainty ...

I think it is agreed across the Chamber that we cannot create absolute certainty for absolutely e...

The hon. Lady is absolutely right, and I think the Government and the Minister have agreed to pub...

First, may I add to the earlier comments about how good it is to see you back in your place, Mr D...

Given the hon. Gentleman’s desire to retain access to the single market, can he explain why he do...

One of the key issues in the referendum was the free movement of labour and, as I shall go on to ...

Thank you for calling me to speak, Mr Deputy Speaker. May I also welcome you back to your place? ...

My hon. Friend is making a great point. We all remember “Project Fear”. Will he confirm beyond do...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. I am looking at the forecast of 500,000 more unemployed, and ...

I, too, was worried about “Project Fear”, and I wrote to the Treasury after the referendum asking...

Again, my hon. Friend makes a forceful point, and they are not just in the Treasury.

The sh...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I will not give way as I have given way twice already.

The Treasury analysis was wrong in t...

Order. This has been such a heated debate that we must now reduce the time limit to five minutes....

It is a pleasure to be in this debate under your chairship, Madam Deputy Speaker. I normally find...

Has the hon. Lady ever heard the phrase “garbage in, garbage out”? If we use garbage figures and ...

The hon. Gentleman just made my point for me. It is just maths. It is clear and transparent. Ther...

I want to make a few points about the politics of all this and what that says about our politics....

This has been an interesting debate, and I appreciate the intent behind it, but we have to be a b...

Order. I call Geraint Davies.

3.27 pm

Being Welsh, I enjoy a leak, but when does a leaker become a whistleblower? Although we have to t...

It is a pleasure to wind up this debate. It is one of a series that reflect the historic period t...

This has been a great debate, and I am grateful to all the right hon. and hon. Members who have t...

Could the Minister confirm, as I asked previously, that he will undertake to release the analysis...

The Under-Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, my hon. Friend the Member for Worces...

I thank my good friend for allowing me to intervene. I take it from what I have heard in this Cha...

As we have said many times, we conduct a wide range of analysis to support our negotiating positi...

I just want to be absolutely clear: the papers that we are talking about today are a work in prog...

I heard what the hon. Gentleman said the first time, but the commitments that we are giving are t...

Is the Minister giving way or has he concluded his oration?

I have concluded.

The Minister has concluded his oration, and we are grateful to him.

Question put and agreed...

On a point of order, Mr Speaker. The Government not having voted against that motion, it is—as I ...

I am grateful to the right hon. and learned Gentleman for his point of order. The answer is twofo...