Northern Ireland (Executive Formation) Bill

This has been a difficult debate because it has laid bare some fundamental differences in approac...

For the avoidance of any doubt whatsoever, the position is the same on our side.

That is a rare intervention from an Opposition Whip. I am delighted to hear that, as I am sure La...

I am most grateful to the Minister for giving way so early in his speech. In the light of the unt...

If the hon. Lady will possess her soul in patience, I will come to that important point later; I ...

The Minister talks about human rights versus the devolution settlement. Does he agree that what c...

Yes, I absolutely accept that there is great concern that by creating one list of amendments toda...

Can I check that, despite the technical warnings, which the Minister is probably quite right to i...

Absolutely. This is also a free-vote issue, so if this passes a vote it will go into law and beco...

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I will give way to my hon. Friend the Member for Chelmsford (Vicky Ford), and then to the hon. Me...

New clause 10 says that the Government should implement the full CEDAW recommendations. The first...

I am not sure that I have time, but I could go through other technical concerns. That is only one...

Is it not the case that the way in which new clause 10 is drafted is very broad and covers all th...

As I mentioned in my response to new clause 1, it is entirely probable that it would not be possi...

Will the Minister confirm what I understand from his answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Chel...

No, I think I can probably reassure my right hon. Friend on that, but I would reaffirm to him tha...

Will the Minister give way?

I will give way once more, and then I really must make progress because I do want to get through ...

For the sake of clarification, the CEDAW report recommends the repeal of sections 58 and 59 of th...

As I understand it, if we repealed that, yes it would. However, I think the point has been made e...

Many Members have come into the House who have not had a chance to listen to the longer debate. I...

Dame Eleanor, I had probably better not try your patience by going through them all. We have acce...

I pay tribute to all those colleagues who have taken part in the debate; it was characterised by ...

On a point of order, Dame Rosie. I know we have very important subjects that Members are keen to ...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his point of order. As I am sure he will appreciate, this is not r...

Further to that point of order, Dame Rosie. Have either you or Mr Speaker had any indication that...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for that point of order. The short answer is: no, I have not received ...

With this it will be convenient to discuss:

Clause 2 stand part.

Amendment 14, in cla...

Thank you, Dame Rosie; it is a pleasure to participate in this debate and to raise with the House...

I am extremely grateful to the right hon. and learned Gentleman for giving way. I pay tribute to ...

I agree with the hon. Lady. The process of debate is the process by which we continuously moderat...

I understand why my right hon. and learned Friend is speaking to amendments 15, 16 and 17, and I ...

Yes, and I will tell my hon. Friend exactly why. First, the amendments work in their own right, s...

I am sorry; let me phrase it in another way. Do these amendments, if moved and if passed, prevent...

If all the amendments, including new clause 14, were to be passed, yes, it would prevent this Hou...

The right hon. and learned Gentleman is absolutely right that the consequences for Northern Irela...

I find it very difficult to answer that question. I accept that, because of priorities in this Ho...

May I just take my right hon. and learned Friend back to the question he was asked a moment or tw...

Yes, I agree. It is perhaps, as lawyers would say, a moot point, but my view is that because it s...

As my right hon. and learned Friend knows, I have a great deal of sympathy with his position, but...

Yes, I do. I agree entirely, and we should try to avoid doing that, but for the reasons that I ha...

I am very sorry for intervening again, but I think that it may be important later in the other pl...

Yes, I do agree. That is certainly one of the reasons this should go to the other place. I slight...

Amendment 17 suggests that a motion be debated in this House and approved. We have seen in the pa...

If we are seeking ways to find daisy chains, I can assure my hon. Friend that there are probably ...

I rise to offer the SNP’s support for amendments 14 to 17, which stand in the name of the right h...

The right hon. and learned Member for Beaconsfield (Mr Grieve) has raised the issue of proroguing...

My hon. Friend, as per usual, makes a very good point. Obviously, we in the SNP support a written...

I rise to speak in support of amendment 6, which stands in my name and the names of my right hon....

indicated assent.

I am glad to see him nodding.

Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?

Of course I give way to the hon. Lady, just as I did 12 months ago to this day.

I am very grateful. Since the right hon. Gentleman’s amendment makes reference to “other security...

I am afraid that we have got into a situation where people in Northern Ireland have become, to so...

We have just had the conclusions of the legacy consultation and the release of a summary of the f...

I am so grateful to the hon. Lady, and delighted that I gave way to her, because she has put that...

I am most grateful to my right hon. Friend for giving way, and I congratulate him and others on t...

I thank my hon. Friend, who is an expert in these matters, for that perceptive observation. Certa...

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I will give way only one more time, as other Members wish to speak.

I am exceedingly grateful to the right hon. Gentleman, who is being very generous indeed. I think...

I am not an expert on the subject, but I think that the numbers at the moment are very low, but t...

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

Very well, for the last time.

My right hon. Friend is very kind. I instinctively agree with the amendment that he has tabled. I...

I thought that by implication I had covered that point. The likelihood is that anyone before the ...

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How can I refuse the hon. Gentleman?

The right hon. Gentleman has made a good point about the letters of comfort. I have to say that t...

That confirms the very point that I was making, and it is why the main purpose of the amendment, ...

I want to speak to the amendments tabled in my name and those of my right hon. and hon. Friends, ...

Does the right hon. Gentleman agree with me that this is part of an attempt at historical revisio...

The right hon. Gentleman has put the matter extremely eloquently and concisely, and he is absolut...

Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is deeply frustrating that we have made these arguments t...

I entirely agree with my hon. Friend, and I pay tribute to the work that she has done in this are...

I hope that the right hon. Member for Belfast North (Nigel Dodds) will forgive me if I do not add...

I rise very briefly to support the amendments moved by the right hon. and learned Member for Beac...

Let me begin by addressing the issues raised by the right hon. Members for New Forest East (Dr Le...

I am not a lawyer, but my understanding is that the ICC, having been set up long after the troubl...

I did not necessarily automatically assume that the right hon. Gentleman was looking for retrospe...

The shadow Secretary of State started by saying that there cannot be moral equivalence between th...

I have no difficulty in agreeing with the hon. Lady. The Victims’ Commissioner has sought not to ...

I ask the hon. Member for Rochdale (Tony Lloyd)—my hon. Friend—to think very carefully about the ...

Is it not even more grotesque that these former soldiers can be summoned to an inquest or some le...

My right hon. Friend is absolutely right. The Ministry of Defence, and this country—our nation, o...

It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Plymouth, Moor View (Johnny Mercer), and...

Does my hon. Friend agree that this provides a really good opportunity for the British Government...

I agree absolutely, and Members who have followed my contributions on this issue over the past nu...

I thank my fellow member of the Defence Committee for giving way. Like him, I believe that it is ...

That is indeed correct. I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for his intervention, although it w...

I just want to add to the point that my hon. Friend is making. We have heard a lot from Oppositio...

I agree with my right hon. Friend, although in fairness, the comments that we were talking about ...

I rise briefly to speak to amendments 21 and 22, which are in my name. In relation to the report ...

I should probably start by formally begging to move that clauses 1 to 4 stand part of the Bill. I...

It is important to highlight what I believe is not an accurate description of the legal position....

I hope that the commitments I have just made and the words I was able to adduce have reassured th...

No, no—we do not clap. The hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull North (Diana Johnson) deserves to b...

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Did the Member who shouted initially say, “Not moved”?...

I understand the point of order made by a long-serving Chief Whip, who understands these matters ...

For clarification, Madam Deputy Speaker, the amendment is moved formally. [Interruption.]

Order. No, we are having no confusion on this matter. We are starting this matter