Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill

The hon. Gentleman gets the prize for making the best point of order of the day, and possibly of ...

I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time.

News of my promotion to Secretary o...

How will the Minister answer the intemperate correspondence to which many of us have been subject...

I think that is the longest intervention I have ever heard my right hon. Friend make. He is absol...

I will give way in a little while; I want to make some progress. The Bill will enable outdated an...

Will the Minister be honest with the House? He says that the Bill will allow us to have the highe...

I can be very honest in saying that the Bill will ensure that we have the highest standards, and ...

I will make some progress.

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I will come back to the hon. and learned Lady shortly.

As has been alluded to, some naysaye...

The Minister is doing a fantastic job at the Dispatch Box. At oral questions this morning, Opposi...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The Bill is about cutting red tape where it is not needed and...

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I will make some progress and give way in a while.

As I said, rather than adapting to suppo...

I am sure that many hon. Members are standing up to say how pleased they are with that announceme...

As someone who fought to free ourselves from the shackles of Brussels, I welcome the legislation....

The right hon. Member makes an important point. This is about the United Kingdom and making sure ...

I strongly support the Bill and congratulate the Minister on his presentation. I hope that the Go...

I thank my right hon. Friend for his intervention. It is ultimately about ensuring that we are do...

The Minister said that the Bill is about doing the right thing by people. Earlier, I understood h...

I very much enjoyed serving with the hon. and learned Lady on the Joint Committee on Human Rights...

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I will come back to the hon. and learned Lady in a little while.

Has my hon. Friend noticed, as I have, that Opposition Members seem to think that the only place ...

I thank my right hon. Friend—she is a very good friend—for her comments. The Bill is ultimately a...

I will continue; I have taken quite a few interventions.

We have carefully considered how t...

My hon. Friend is doing a great job. It is right that, six and a half years after the referendum,...

I thank my hon. Friend and applaud the briefing that the CEN gave Members earlier today. Ultimate...

The Minister said earlier that the Bill was proportionate, but that is exactly what it is not, pa...

I totally disagree, but I thank the hon. Lady for the intervention. Let me remind her that the Co...

I will continue, because I have a lot to get through. I am sure that hon. Members have worked inc...

What is the justification for allowing Ministers to scrap legislation that currently applies simp...

I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his comments. He was a staunch advocate of not leaving the E...

I will not take many more interventions. I will continue for a short while.

Prior to 31 Dec...

I thank the Minister for giving way. He is making the case for the constitutional importance of t...

I thank the hon. Member for his comments and for taking part in the debate last week. To be hones...

I will continue, if I may.

Prior to the date in the Bill, the Government will determine whi...

I have given way quite a lot today, and I want to at least get to the end of my speech while I am...

I am very grateful to the Minister for giving way and I congratulate him on doing such a sterling...

I thank my hon. Friend for his comments. One of the key things for certainty is having a clear da...

I am afraid I will make progress, because I can see the Opposition Front Bencher itching to get u...

Order. I have let this run, but I have had enough now. The hon. Member for Lewisham West and Peng...

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I have no issue with Opposition Members shouting, but I think th...

I call Justin Madders—[Interruption.] Forgive me—I was totally prepared for a change of personnel...

I beg to move an amendment, to leave out from “That” to the end of the Question and add:

“t...

I thank my hon. Friend for giving way, unlike the Minister. Does my hon. Friend share my concerns...

My hon. Friend is an expert in such matters and she is absolutely right to highlight those concer...

We now know that Labour is a party of Brexit, no different from the other major party of Brexit, ...

I understand the hon. Member’s position. I simply say that, if we were to lock ourselves into a p...

Can the Opposition spokesman name a single regulation or directive of the EU that he thinks shoul...

I certainly can. I have always said, for instance, that Solvency II could be improved by having t...

Might one of the reasons why businesses are so confused about the impact that the legislation wil...

My hon. Friend is absolutely correct. The retained EU law dashboard, although useful, is not and ...

The hon. Member is giving a powerful speech. On environmental regulation, does he agree that this...

The hon. Member makes a very good point. Unfortunately, we know that the Government do not like i...

It was actually this Government, through the Environment Act 2021, who set up the Office for Envi...

I think the hon. Member has agreed with the hon. Member for Brighton, Pavilion (Caroline Lucas), ...

May I say what a pleasure it is that normal service can be resumed, and that I am now able to spe...

For some of us, the point is not the constitutional argument about which laws should be sovereign...

I am afraid that my hon. Friend has never liked the decision to leave the European Union, and eve...

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I am not giving way again. Otherwise, my hon. Friend would not have intervened at this stage, bec...

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I give way to my right hon. Friend.

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. [Interruption.]

Order. This is a point of order. It would have been simpler had the hon. Gentleman been facing th...

This is a very simple point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. My right hon. Friend the Member for N...

I appreciate the sensitivities. The hon. Gentleman knows that the content of the right hon. Gentl...

I now give way to my right hon. Friend the Member for South Northamptonshire (Dame Andrea Leadsom...

I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for all the work that he has done. I was actually hoping to...

I am very grateful to my right hon. Friend, who has made an excellent point. The ability of the H...

Given his commitment to scrutiny by the House, the right hon. Gentleman, who said that he was inv...

There is always a discussion to be had about whether a few days in a Committee of the whole House...

I thank my right hon. Friend for all the great work that has been done on the draft legislation. ...

I am grateful to my right hon. Friend, who is wise, as always. But it is even odder than that, be...

Does the right hon. Gentleman recognise that some of us may be a little bit sceptical about the d...

I do not accept that construction of what is actually happening. The House will have the ability ...

I am grateful for the chance to put a question to the right hon. Gentleman. I was going to welcom...

The hon. Gentleman knows that Dispatch Box commitments have a very high standing in our political...

The right hon. Gentleman is entirely correct. This is an issue of the supremacy of this Parliamen...

I am certainly concerned about that. In the last couple of days I had to sign off a couple of exp...

The Bill creates several new powers that will not require UK Government Ministers to seek consent...

The Scottish Parliament has been reluctant to give legislative consent motions to any Brexit-rela...

The right hon. Gentleman will of course accept that the Welsh Government have similar concerns to...

I know from my previous experience that His Majesty’s Government will observe the Sewel conventio...

My right hon. Friend previously served on the European Scrutiny Committee, as I still do. Does he...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The ports directive was debated and debated, and opposed on b...

The right hon. Gentleman will not be surprised to know that I agree with the core of his speech a...

We must not have such long interventions.

The hon. Gentleman makes a valid point. The scrutiny of statutory instruments in this House is no...

It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for North East Somerset (Mr Rees-Mogg). Little d...

Does the hon. Gentleman understand the inconsistency of his argument? He objects to Ministers in ...

The right hon. Gentleman will be aware that Scotland, exactly the same as Northern Ireland, voted...

My hon. Friend is making a terrific point. Is it not a fact that, if we were a member of the Euro...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. This is about consent, because the Scottish Parliament has ne...

In answer to the point made by the right hon. Member for East Antrim (Sammy Wilson), the differen...

Again, I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention, and I could not agree more with what he says...

Is the hon. Gentleman aware of the Institute for Government’s view that the time between now and ...

That is a very good point, and it is something that the Scottish Parliament and the Scottish Gove...

Order. The debate is well subscribed. I do not want to impose a time limit, but my advice is that...

I add my personal best wishes to my right hon. Friend the Member for North East Somerset (Mr Rees...

Here we go again: another piece of legislation introduced in the name of Brexit, which we were re...

The right hon. Gentleman is rather avoiding the point that the legislation came in with exactly t...

Well, what I do know is that I sat on the Council of Ministers for seven years as a Cabinet Minis...

It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Leeds Central (Hilary Benn). I welcome the U...

I am sure the hon. Member will realise that some of us are less happy than she is about this appr...

I thank the hon. Member for that, but we have had assurances from the Minister that he is going t...

I have just heard the news that the COP26 President has lost his position in Cabinet. Does the ho...

I am obviously not party to all these things, but I believe the COP26 President is just not atten...

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I will press on because I think I will be under pressure—I will perhaps give way in a minute.

Order. I gently remind hon. Members that, if we are to be fair to each other, I did say that spee...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Taunton Deane (Rebecca Pow). I hope she will appre...

The hon. Lady will have seen that I put that point to the Minister earlier and he said that claus...

Clause 15(5) is why the Bill is the anti- growth coalition. Businesses, consumers and environment...

Having witnessed the EU legislative process at first hand as an MEP for six years, I can attest t...

I listened to the new Prime Minister’s speech this morning, in which he promised to fix “mistakes...

As usual, my hon. and learned Friend is making a forensic speech. She will be interested to learn...

Indeed, and I am pleased to say that I spent the weekend in Cardiff. It was my first visit, and I...

The UK is party to many international legal arrangements, many of which do not enjoy a great deal...

I will speak as a trade unionist, taking up the point made by the hon. Member for Ruislip, Northw...

As other Members have outlined, this Bill should not be before us. The chaos that has characteris...

In last Thursday’s business questions, there was some discussion about whether the Bill should be...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way? I will not be speaking later in the debate.

indicated assent.

The hon. Gentleman refers to business uncertainty. Has he seen the detailed briefing that has bee...

I have not seen that briefing, but I will now look because the hon. Gentleman makes a very strong...

To state what is so obvious to my struggling constituents, we are in the middle of a cost of livi...

Some 78% of voters in Glasgow North voted to remain in the European Union in 2016, but now in thi...

I rise to speak in support of the Opposition’s reasoned amendment. Many of us voted to leave the ...

I was elected to this place on a prospectus for Scotland’s independence, which is a completely le...

I do not know if the hon. Gentleman is not paying attention, but has he not noticed, and does he ...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention, and if he paid attention he would know that the...

As we have heard, the Bill threatens environmental, health and industrial protections by casting ...

Will the hon. Member give way?

No, I will leave it, thanks.

Rather than scrapping any chemicals regulation, the industry w...

It is like the old days, is it not? I was going to say the good old days, but they were not all t...

Order. Not only is the hon. Gentleman going a bit wide of the Bill, but he is mentioning current ...

Too long!

I heard, Mr Deputy Speaker, from a sedentary position, “Too long!” I am trying to resolve that—he...

I am told that the Chiltern hundreds are beautiful at this time of year.

I hear the Scottish highlands are even more beautiful, but we might debate that one at some other...

It is a positive delight to follow the hon. Member for Perth and North Perthshire (Pete Wishart),...

I am glad that the hon. Lady is raising the issue of animal welfare, which is extremely important...

I entirely agree with the hon. Gentleman. I hope very much that the Minister will give us that gu...

The chaos recently visited on our constituents is yet another episode in the Conservative party’s...

I too am strongly opposed to the Bill. We can be wishful in our thinking that we are simply going...

This is a Government operating without a mandate. We have had three Prime Ministers in less than ...

One of the most pernicious aspects of this Bill is the threat to maternity and paternity rights. ...

I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention and I will be touching on that point. Others have men...

My hon. Friend is giving a powerful speech, as she always does. She is talking about the sunset o...

My hon. Friend makes a valid point about the disruption that this Government have caused in the p...

Order. You should not use the word “your”—that refers to me.

Apologies, Mr Deputy Speaker. As I was saying, we have seen Tory austerity, attacks on working pe...

I am sorry, there were some noises there but I was not saying anything.

Okay, Conservative Members can make a lot of noise, because that is all they ever do. Thanks.

On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. At noon, the new Prime Minister promised “integrity, prof...

I thank the right hon. Lady for her point of order. While she will clearly have opportunities to ...