United Kingdom Internal Market Bill

The Sewel convention, which was put on a statutory footing—before the hon. Lady was a Member of t...

I would argue that this is not an infringement of your rights or those devolved powers. This Bill...

rose—

I will not give way—I will make some headway and then give way in a moment. When we talk about th...

Is my hon. Friend aware of the decisions being made in Shetland that if the nationalists get thei...

My hon. Friend makes an excellent point.

I do not want to break up the United Kingdom. As I have said, I am a Unionist and I want to see a...

I thank you for your point, but I wonder if you would find it respectful for the EU to threaten t...

I will carry on. On that point, the EU’s threat to disrupt our food exports from mainland Britain...

On the point about credibility, does the hon. Lady think it is just possible that the reason that...

You say it was mentioned by the SNP earlier about wanting to throw off the bureaucratic chains an...

Order. Can I just remind Members on both sides of the House that these are very specific amendmen...

Thank you, Sir Graham.

I will conclude by saying—

Will the hon. Lady give way?

I probably should make headway. I am trying to understand and sympathise with the amendments that...

Before I call the next speaker, because a number of new Members are participating in Committee, I...

This Tory Government leadership said during the Brexit campaign that leaving Europe would enable ...

My hon. Friend is making a very strong speech and getting to the nub of this issue. She has expla...

I do, and I thank my hon. Friend for his contribution.

Labour’s new clause 2 proposes a com...

Today we are debating the creation of the OIM. I will try to keep my comments brief and not repea...

Does my hon. Friend agree that we should be pursuing a system that supports British jobs for Brit...

I thank my hon. Friend for his comments and agree 100% with what he said. I want to confine my co...

Will the hon. Lady give way?

If I may, I will make some progress. I wish to talk about similarity with the Committee on Climat...

I do not know whether the hon. Lady is aware that Scotland has more stringent targets on net zero...

That discussion would have to be done on a case-by-case basis. I do not agree that the Westminste...

I am going to make some progress and will draw my remarks to a conclusion quickly.

The reas...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Graham. This Bill is difficult for the Sco...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Oh please.

I’m back. To clarify that point, it is actually the European Commission that oversees the single ...

I thank the hon. Lady for that point. In my 15 years at the European Parliament I was always stru...

Could the hon. Member clarify for me how he thinks replacing 60 years of jurisprudence will be te...

Order. Stick to the point of the amendments.

Sir Graham, I will try to stick to the amendments. I was hoping for a point of consensus with the...

Does the hon. Member suspect, as I do, that appointed to this unelected body might be more chums ...

I am very grateful for the point, and I very strongly agree. We do not know who these people are ...

Talking about standards, the British should be very proud of their standards in animal welfare an...

In which case, I do hope the hon. Lady is going to be supporting our new clause 5, which would ma...

Was it not just this Sunday that a UK Government Minister refused to rule out our having to impor...

Absolutely. We are deeply concerned on behalf of Scotland’s farmers—and, indeed, everybody else’s...

On that concern about the lowering of standards, the International Trade Secretary said previousl...

Exactly. I fully agree with my hon. Friend, who has been fighting for farmers in his constituency...

The hon. Gentleman is making a very cogent speech in favour of independence, basically. I thank h...

I take the point that the hon. Gentleman makes. He accuses me of promoting the case for independe...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Graham. I do not think I have spoken under...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Why not?

Where is the equality in goods of a lower standard being forced on another country in the UK?

I thank the hon. Gentleman for making that point, but my point is that this is about equality. We...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I have just given way, so I will make some progress first. I am mid-flow.

As I was saying, ...

The hon. Gentleman can correct me if I am wrong, but he has just suggested that the Scottish Parl...

I will clarify that I believe this organisation brings the parties together so that we can discus...

The hon. Gentleman spoke a moment ago about families. I believe in this family as well, and I bel...

I do believe in respect, and I do believe in recognition. I also believe in respecting the will o...

rose—

rose—

Can I make a bit more progress?

Just on that little point?

Oh, why not? I haven’t had enough of you! More, please!

I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way once more. With all this coming together, we should bea...

I have every faith that the Scottish people will be represented, and the Welsh and the Northern I...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I have taken a huge amount of interventions already, so I will make some progress.

This bod...

As an utterly pro-business but also pro-democracy party, we would contend that the Parliament of ...

I am not sure what word the hon. Gentleman refers to, I will be honest. There are lots of great w...

I believe that my hon. Friend just answered my question. I was going to ask whether it is the cas...

I completely agree, obviously. Parliament should not be getting into this.

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I will give way in a second. Government should not get in the way of business. Business will thri...

On interference, is it not the case that the Government are now interfering in devolution in Wale...

I completely refute that point. In fact, I think the Bill will actually create a better working e...

Does my hon. Friend agree that this is essentially an economic argument, not a political argument...

I completely agree—this is an economic thing. In fact, I am about to talk about clause 38, which ...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Why not?

I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way, but how does he explain that those of us who are not n...

I say sorry that those people are falling into nationalist arguments and giving succour to the in...

rose—

I have already given way once, so I will make progress.

The Bill is not a Westminster power...

It is pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Graham, and to speak to new clause 2, which ...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Graham

This is a good Bill, and a ne...

Will the hon. Member give way?

No, I will not give way. We have heard so many canards in the Chamber this afternoon, it is begin...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Graham.

The most important element o...

My hon. Friend is giving a very strong argument as to why this legislation is so important. Does ...

I absolutely agree with the businessman in my hon. Friend’s constituency. I think it is the Feder...

The hon. Gentleman is making some points on which we might be able to agree. The issue at hand is...

I have heard the arguments, as have Ministers, I am sure. Points have been made about the interna...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Graham.

I rise to speak to amendment...

It is an honour to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Graham.

I must say at the outset that...

Does my hon. Friend agree that for business in Northern Ireland, free and unfettered access to Gr...

My hon. Friend makes a vital point, one that I think is shared by Members across the House who re...

There are many things wrong with the Bill. Today, we are focused on the creation of yet another u...

I commend my hon. Friend on a powerful speech. Does he share my concern that as well as the gener...

Indeed. Hon. Members could be forgiven for thinking that the Bill was being rushed through withou...

I rise to speak to Liberal Democrat amendment 21, new clause 1 and new clause 4. It will come as ...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Graham. Like my hon. Friend the Member for...

I commend the hon. Lady on her Unionism and respect it absolutely. Edinburgh West is a place I kn...

Yes, I support the devolution amendment, and yes I believe, as I will come on to explain, that th...

It is a great honour to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Graham, and to follow the speech of my...

If I may, I will pick up on something that the hon. Gentleman has said. Many speakers on the Oppo...

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. We should be aware that, on top of the ...

It is always a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Westmorland and Lonsdale (Tim Farron). Alth...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Evans. I rise to speak to the amendments ta...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right to draw attention to those comments by a very honourable man, ...

I absolutely do. My hon. Friend has made some powerful points today about the disrespectful way i...

I agree with the vast majority of new clause 2, but this is the one point that really worries me,...

This might be where we differ, as I was going to come on to say, because we believe that the ulti...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Evans. I would like to thank all Members wh...

I do not think that any of us doubt the integrity of the people on the board or on that body. We ...

I take the hon. Gentleman’s point, but prior to his contribution, other Members did raise the poi...

If the office for the internal market writes a report that says, for instance, that a regulation ...

As I say, the office will put forward non-binding reports to each devolved Parliament, but then t...

The Minister is doing his best job to front this up and to give some of the detail that the Prime...

That is why I am going through the clauses and amendments at Committee stage to keep the focus on...

Mr Evans, it is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship. I must admit I am still reeling some...

Will all non-Front Benchers leave the Chamber behind me, please, and then join the queue in Westm...

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Can you help Back Benchers, please? A number of Back B...

I understand the hon. Gentleman’s point. Perhaps I have a better view of the Chamber than he has ...

Further to that point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker.

I am not sure that there can be anything further to that point of order, but out of courtesy and ...

I am grateful to you, Madam Deputy Speaker.

First, there was an attempt physically to stop ...

Order.

There are about a dozen Government Whips here—

Order. How many people with particular duties in the House there are sitting in the Chamber is no...