Exiting the European Union

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his question. I will come on to that later in my opening comments....

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I asked the Minister a specific question about consent...

Thank you for that point of order. The Minister may respond at this point or she may wish to resp...

I will respond at the end. [Interruption.]

That is the Minister’s right, but she has given an undertaking that she will respond at the end t...

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am not sure that I have ever heard such a cursory ex...

I think we need to move on. The Minister has undertaken to come back at the end. I am sure she wi...

Can I also, at the beginning of this debate, express, I am afraid, my absolute shock and disgust,...

I am listening to this, and I have to say that the impression I am getting is that the shadow Min...

Absolutely not, and my hon. Friend is right to make that point. It is not just we in this House w...

On the point that my hon. Friend has just made, anyone who was watching the Public Accounts Commi...

My right hon. Friend is absolutely right. He makes a very important point. Really, if this Govern...

I am now beginning to share the indignation of my hon. Friend on the Front Bench, because we have...

I absolutely agree. I said at the Dispatch Box a few weeks ago that the Conservative party was no...

I was particularly irritated by the Government’s cursory presentation of the measure before us be...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. I have not even started my substantive speech yet, which I in...

There is another possibility, of course, which is that the Government Whip on the Treasury Bench ...

I don’t know what is going on, but I want to put on record my huge disappointment on behalf not j...

The Opposition Front Benchers might not be opposing this measure, and there might be things in it...

My hon. Friend makes a good point, and I agree with him. I am beginning to change my mind as we s...

My hon. Friend mentions tariffs, and of course we are all hoping for an agreement that means no t...

Absolutely. My right hon. Friend makes an excellent point, and that is why this debate is so impo...

The shadow Minister took the words from my lips. Nissan is in the north-east, and although we are...

My hon. Friend makes an excellent point, and those are the real risks that we currently face. The...

I was going to talk about the automotive sector, but since my hon. Friend tempts me, I will menti...

My hon. Friend makes a powerful point. Those big manufacturing businesses are waiting every hour ...

The hon. Lady and her colleagues are making important points. She mentioned the levelling-up agen...

Absolutely. This agenda could not come at a more critical time, because these same sectors and in...

My hon. Friend will realise that businesses from Nissan to the chemicals industry on Teesside rel...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. That is one of the reasons we wanted to support this statutor...

I used to have a farm in the Rhondda. One of the issues that I know is facing Welsh farmers in pa...

My hon. Friend’s knowledge of sheep gestation periods is far superior to mine, but I very much ta...

Is not it ironic that at the election we were all promised certainty? Where are we now? We have n...

We do not even have certainty about what we are going to do at Christmas, do we—let alone any of ...

My hon. Friend the Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant) mentioned a moment ago a farm in his constit...

My right hon. Friend makes a good point. It is not only the business community, but the farming c...

The hon. Member is absolutely right. It is quite clear that the Tories are no longer the party of...

The hon. Member is absolutely right. Company directors who have not had any support during this c...

Will my hon. Friend give way?

I was just going to get on to the detail of the statutory instrument. I have not actually started...

My hon. Friend mentioned Christmas and the former vicar in me sort of bubbled up, and I remembere...

Order, just before the shadow Minister responds to the intervention, she said herself that she wi...

Not all of it.

Oh, no. I did not say “all of it”—not by any manner of means.

You don’t know the half of it.

I think that is just as well. That which refers to his singing specifically of “Hark the Herald A...

Thank you very much, Madam Deputy Speaker. Of course, my hon. Friend the Member for Rhondda (Chri...

One of the things that will be covered by that regime is the movement of food, which does not jus...

My hon. Friend makes an important point. I hope the Minister has taken note of that and that we c...

My hon. Friend is talking about the import of different foods, as my hon. Friend the Member for S...

My hon. Friend makes an excellent point about squid in the Falkland Islands that I was not aware ...

I hope that the Minister will be able to address this point when she responds, because my underst...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. This statutory instrument should and could be an opportunity ...

My hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff South and Penarth (Stephen Doughty) is absolutely right. I ...

My hon. Friend makes a powerful point. Perhaps next time he goes on a delegation there he can see...

My hon. Friend posed the question of where there is likely to be divergence. We know already that...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. That is why it is such an important issue, and we really are ...

rose—

Maybe my hon. Friend knows.

We can do better than that, of course, because we had word from the Prime Minister last week, who...

Order. We will stick to the terms of this statutory instrument, which is fairly narrow.

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. The point is important to the statutory instrument, because I am...

Paragraph 2.2 of the explanatory memorandum reminds us that the provisions, which, as I understan...

As always, my right hon. Friend makes an incredibly powerful point. Although on the face of it th...

My hon. Friend is making an important point. She will know that I raised these issues in the stat...

My hon. Friend makes an extremely important point about the impact on ports, including Holyhead. ...

My hon. Friend mentions paperwork. One issue with organic materials is the SPS—sanitary and phyto...

I really am learning some things today, and, yes, I very much think that that would lead to that....

I have declared my business interests in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. May I reas...

May I ask the right hon. Gentleman whether the game is not on the Government’s side, given that t...

On the contrary. As I have just explained, there has been no pressure to withdraw my application....

I raised a serious point in an intervention on my hon. Friend the Member for Manchester Central (...

Of course I hope we can do things to help the Falkland Islands, as we have over many years. They ...

Will the right hon. Member give way?

I am not giving way, because I have a couple of points to make, and I am conscious that many Memb...

Where are they then?

There are clearly Members on the Opposition Benches wishing to catch Madam Deputy Speaker’s eye.<...

I do not often say this, but it is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Wokingham (John...

The hon. Gentleman is asking me, but I have absolutely no idea. Unfortunately, I have no responsi...

I thank you for that, Madam Deputy Speaker. The way things are just now, I worry about why so man...

I hear that from businesses across my constituency as well. A lot of them do not know exactly wha...

I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. I am pretty sure that many businesses across the UK...

I suppose we should commend the right hon. Member for Wokingham (John Redwood) for turning up and...

I wholeheartedly agree. The shadow Minister used the phrase “rocket boosters” under the argument ...

Despite the fact that we share nationality, we do not share that particular ambition for separati...

I will need to catch up with the hon. Gentleman in better surroundings, and we can share a sausag...

I am sure the hon. Member for Stockton North (Alex Cunningham) will be entitled to a passport as ...

For clarification, I was not suggesting that the hon. Gentleman was in any way out of order in th...

Yes, so we all share the same good taste in food then.

I agree with the point my hon. Frien...

The right hon. Member for Wokingham (John Redwood) actually talked about taking back control, but...

I agree absolutely 100%. Again, if Parliament was taking back control, we would expect parliament...

Does the hon. Gentleman agree that it is about not only the import of goods, but exports? One of ...

I agree wholeheartedly. That is the problem with the silo approach that the UK Government have ta...

I am sure my hon. Friend is just clearing his throat to get started, but on the issue of the free...

Absolutely. It is about looking at the big picture but, instead, the Government make big headline...

I would be so bold as to put on the record that this Government have been guilty of cronyism. But...

Order. As the hon. Gentleman said, the point he has just made goes very wide, and very much wider...

Hopefully, I will not be too much longer—these notes might be deceiving.

A key point, as I ...

My hon. Friend has been incredibly generous in giving way. On the point about customs agents, Bre...

Yes, it is very worrying. There has been very little preparation—all last-minute stuff. That is a...

I have been informed that the Member who is No. 5 on the call list has withdrawn from the debate,...

I thank the House for its consideration of this statutory instrument and for the valuable contrib...

Apologies, but I will not be giving way.

As I have made clear, the SI is not a precondition...

Will the Minister give way?

Apologies, but I am not giving way.

Coming on to business participation, since the summer t...

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Call me old-fashioned, but I thought that the usual co...

Order. That is not a point of order—it is a point about the content of the Minister’s speech, whi...

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker.

Let me once again stress that this SI itself does not intr...

I am going to suspend the House for a few minutes in order that we can have a change of Members a...

Order. I call Minister Lucy Frazer to move motion 5. It is not moved, so I call the Leader of the...

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Given that we have just clipped through three items of...

I appreciate the point that the hon. Gentleman makes, but I have taken the decision that, as we h...

Further to that point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. In the interests of physical hygiene, it ma...

I appreciate the hon. Gentleman’s help in advising me on this matter, but I am satisfied that the...