Northern Ireland Protocol Bill

First, I am slightly disappointed that the right hon. Gentleman did not take the opportunity to c...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Of course I will give way, but I will not rehearse the debates of the previous two days.

I appreciate the hon. Gentleman’s giving way. The issue of lawfulness, which he put on the agenda...

Again, I will not repeat the debate from the first day of Committee, when all those issues were e...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I am going to move on, because we need to stick to the clauses before us. I will give way once, b...

Hopefully it will be a very helpful intervention. Does the shadow Secretary of State agree that i...

I am very grateful for that intervention. For the record, I think that all the interventions I re...

Will my hon. Friend give way?

It would be a pleasure.

The dual regulatory regime raises more questions than it answers. If I understand the Government’...

I am always very grateful to my right hon. Friend for his interventions in these debates; they al...

Will the hon. Member give way?

After I have made this point, I will, because I am always interested in the hon. Member’s views o...

On that technical point, as the hon. Member will accept, the protocol is an example of red tape b...

The hon. Member talks about what I said, but all I did was quote the words of the Dairy Council f...

The hon. Member has to be very careful in listening to bodies that claim to be representative of ...

The point I am making is quite clear. There is a difference of opinion here, and I think it is un...

Talking of putting things on the record, would the shadow Secretary of State join me in standing ...

I am certainly very grateful for the intervention, and to the witness for giving the benefit of h...

I fear the shadow Secretary of State is approaching this on the premise that the dual regulatory ...

I am grateful for the intervention. I make two simple points: first, I used the word “could” enco...

Northern Ireland does not operate in a vacuum. A business in my constituency is no different from...

I am not quite sure where to start with that intervention. The right hon. Gentleman suggests we t...

I am very grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way; he is being most generous. The argument has ...

Again, my right hon. Friend makes a fundamental point about the weakness of the Bill. It is basic...

I rise to speak to, or at least draw attention to, amendments 19 and 22 in my name, and to speak ...

I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this debate on the various amendments. I say to my hon...

I think Members across the Chamber would concur, and Hansard will certainly show, that I and othe...

I welcome the intervention from the hon. Member, for whom who I have a high regard. It is importa...

Does the right hon. Member acknowledge that it feels duplicitous to many people for him and his c...

I have no desire whatever to replace Unionist discontentment with nationalist discontentment in N...

The SDLP is acutely aware of the sensitivity of people’s identity, but does the right hon. Member...

Absolutely. The customs checks I was referring to were in the context of proposals that the Gover...

If the right hon. Member agrees that the North South Ministerial Council would be a good forum fo...

I am as anxious as anyone to get back to having those discussions, and once the confidence of the...

The right hon. Member makes an interesting point, and I think he is right when he says that it is...

We are seeking to find a solution that works for everyone, and we are listening to what business ...

I rise to speak in support of amendment 28.

It is frustrating and worrying that, yet again,...

First, as the Opposition spokesman, the hon. Member for Hove (Peter Kyle), seems to be very sensi...

Does the Member acknowledge that the North South Ministerial Council, when it is not being held t...

That brings me to my next point—that introducing reserved matters to the North South Ministerial ...

It is an honour to follow my right hon. Friend the Member for East Antrim (Sammy Wilson).

T...

I am glad the hon. Gentleman is paying respect to Mike Johnston and his integrity. It was the rig...

I thank the hon. Member for that point, but I want to make it clear that I listened to the commen...

I thank my hon. Friend for giving way; he is certainly in full flow. It is important to strip thi...

The point about seed potatoes is particularly interesting, because that represents the entire com...

I am grateful to all the participants in this important debate. Very briefly, I would like to rei...

I beg to move amendment 37, page 7, line 10, leave out “the Minister considers appropriate” and i...

With this it will be convenient to discuss:

Clause stand part.

Amendment 41, in claus...

Thank you Dame Eleanor; it is a privilege to serve under your chairship this afternoon.

We ...

I am happy to tell the hon. Gentleman how impressed I am by that.

I welcome the notion of measures that restore our control over VAT and subsidies in Northern Irel...

Although the proposer of the amendments, the hon. Member for Hove (Peter Kyle), has said that the...

I will be brief, as I have just a few short points. First, I recognise that there are genuine con...

Last autumn, the Chancellor announced several VAT changes and confirmed that he had to speak to t...

There are two points to raise on that. The first is about the practicalities. My understanding is...

I heard your positive assent, Dame Eleanor, when the shadow Secretary of State sat down, and you ...

rose—

Civil aviation parts are tariff-free internationally anyway, and large manufacturers such as Spir...

Indeed, and I am having dinner later tonight with representatives from an esteemed local company ...

No, I would not agree at all with that, because the tariffs came long before the TCA and arise fr...

Sir Geoffrey Robinson.

Being named after another esteemed Member of this House is, I am sure, a fitting tribute, but tha...

I apologise to the right hon. Gentleman; I have just realised that I called him by the wrong name...

Robinson is quite a popular name in the Democratic Unionist party. I am honoured to join my hon. ...

Does my right hon. Friend accept that this is an issue not just for us Unionists? It should be an...

My right hon. Friend is right, of course. That goes to the heart of what Brexit is about. The man...

There is the argument that says, “Well, you could negotiate this. We should go back to the EU and...

My right hon. Friend makes a valid point, but the matter goes further than that. It is not just t...

It may surprise the right hon. Gentleman that I have quite a lot of sympathy with what he is sayi...

I understand the point that the hon. Gentleman makes, but negotiations have taken place and all t...

I thank my right hon. and learned Friend the Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster Genera...

Will the Financial Secretary clarify whether the Treasury has made any approach to the European C...

As the hon. Member will know, because the point has been raised across the Committee over the pas...

Will the Financial Secretary confirm that the Treasury will never use the argument that we must n...

After this legislation has passed, we will be able to introduce VAT legislation across the UK in ...

The Minister has clarified that the Government would not act on a whim. However, she did so by sa...

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I thought it might be appropriate to draw the House’s ...

I will take any points of order further to that point of order. I see that there are none. I than...