Northern Ireland (Executive Formation etc) Bill

It is now 1,134 days since this House passed the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation etc) Act 2...

I thank both the hon. Lady and my right hon. Friend the Member for Basingstoke (Dame Maria Miller...

The Secretary of State will be aware that since the introduction of the new legislation to Northe...

The hon. Lady and I have had this conversation before. I have a statutory duty to deliver that se...

Conservatives believe that work should pay and that those who choose not to work should not be as...

I absolutely will. Indeed, depending on the passage of the Bill through this House and the other ...

Is the Secretary of State equally deeply angry about those abstentionist MPs from Northern Irelan...

The hon. Gentleman will be talking about Sinn Féin Members of Parliament. I guess I would compare...

Clearly, the vast majority of MLAs want Stormont up and running. They want to do 100% of their jo...

Like Sinn Féin did four years ago.

Precisely—I agree.

Amid the interesting debate that is going on across my shoulder, I can honestly say to the Chair ...

As many Members have said, the Secretary of State is being very generous with his time. He said t...

I think I might arrange for my hon. Friend a meeting with my Department’s lawyers, who will happi...

I assure the hon. Member for North Dorset (Simon Hoare) that if he has his way, and believes that...

I seem to be in the middle of an argument between two great gentlemen of this House, so I will ju...

It is worth confirming to the House that all MLAs, from whatever party—even if some of those part...

I thank my right hon. Friend, the former Secretary of State for doing exactly that. I am fully aw...

My right hon. Friend is right to introduce this Bill, which I am happy to support, but with the t...

In my former role as Government Chief Whip, this place having any sway over what happened at the ...

I thank the Secretary of State for setting out the measures in the Bill. I was clear when he intr...

He went to the conference in Blackpool.

The shadow—sorry, the soon to be shadow Minister intervenes to point out that the Prime Minister ...

I want to give the hon. Gentleman time to outline issues that have alarmed him. Does what has hap...

The hon. Gentleman raises extremely serious issues, which relate to the Republic of Ireland and a...

It is a pleasure to follow the shadow Secretary of State, the hon. Member for Hove (Peter Kyle). ...

The Chair of the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee alludes to differentiating between MLAs who w...

Yes, I do. At the end of the day, irrespective of which forum people are working in, that is taxp...

As I said in response to the Secretary of State’s statement on 9 November, my party has made clea...

I support this proposed legislation. We had the bandages in New Decade, New Approach of keeping M...

I call the leader of the DUP.

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It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Skipton and Ripon (Julian Smith). We fondly ...

On that point, that mandate was created in May of this year—a very clear mandate for the DUP to b...

I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention.

I agree entirely with the right hon. Member fo...

The right hon. Member referred to digitalisation and Fujitsu. I can recall, as I am sure he can, ...

I am happy to offer clarity to the Chairman of the Select Committee. If the digitisation is used ...

I think we all take the point about Sainsbury’s, but may I respectfully say to the right hon. Gen...

I assure the hon. Member that our position has been absolutely consistent. We have said from day ...

Order. Interesting and important as this is, let us have a look at the scope of the Bill. Perhaps...

Mr Deputy Speaker, the scope of the Bill is about the government of Northern Ireland. If the gove...

The right hon. Gentleman and I are both members of the EU-UK Parliamentary Assembly, which met re...

The hon. Lady has made an important point. Let me say at this stage that I applaud the Government...

Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?

Order. I will allow this intervention, but I think we have gone way beyond the Bill that is befor...

Does my right hon. Friend agree that the EU, on the issue of medicines, did show flexibility this...

I thank the former Secretary of State for making that point, and I agree with him. I think that t...

I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way one last time. I just want to remind him...

I would like to be optimistic about the European Union changing its negotiating stance, but we ha...

Although I am an English MP, I have a huge affection for the people of Northern Ireland. What hap...

Will the right hon. Gentleman outline where he saw these price differentials? Through my work, I ...

Order. I make the same plea: there are plenty of opportunities to talk about these other issues. ...

I will not respond to the hon. Member for Belfast South (Claire Hanna). I have not been to Northe...

I know I will not need to reprimand Gregory Campbell, because he will focus on the legislation.