Northern Ireland

Since there has been an objection to the two motions being debated together, we will take them se...

I beg to move,

That the draft Windsor Framework (Constitutional Status of Northern Ireland)...

If the Chancellor of the Exchequer wishes to lower the VAT rate or to take something out of VAT a...

On the example my right hon. Friend has given of VAT, that has just been done for a number of dif...

May I sincerely recognise the efforts of the right hon. Gentleman, his team and his colleagues in...

I completely agree with the hon. Gentleman. It has been a pleasure to work with all the party lea...

There was a memorial service on Tuesday for somebody who I think never gets enough credit for his...

I disagree with what the hon. Gentleman said at the end of his intervention and completely agree ...

Can the Secretary of State give a list or summary of what those who are against the right hon. Me...

I would love to be able to outline anything. I have a piece of paper with that on it; oh, it is b...

I am holding up the piece of paper.

I am afraid that the back of a postage stamp is too big to write what they have achieved. The rig...

The Secretary of State indicates that there are now “vital democratic safeguards”—he used the plu...

Yes: we have the withdrawal Act itself, and the right hon. Gentleman is sitting in the place that...

The ability of Ministers to govern is already severely constrained by things like the Human Right...

I thank my right hon. Friend for his question, which has been put before. It was put yesterday an...

As my right hon. Friend may expect, I shall now refer to section 38 and ask him a question about ...

I note my hon. Friend’s point. As I said yesterday, I hope he recognises what we are doing in thi...

From listening to the Secretary of State and reading the Command Paper, we would perhaps think th...

Yes, nothing that we are doing here changes that fundamental principle. The hon. Gentleman is abs...

Further to the point made by the hon. Member for Foyle (Colum Eastwood), the difficulty was that ...

Yes, and I think the right hon. Gentleman and the hon. Member for Foyle (Colum Eastwood) are maki...

As one who in living memory served as a Minister responsible for the environment and for agricult...

Anyone who ever becomes Father of the House is obviously wise and well experienced and that was a...

The Secretary of State has repeatedly said that the deal we are looking at today will not prevent...

If my right hon. Friend goes through paragraphs 136 to 141 of the Command Paper, she will see us ...

Can the Secretary of State provide a little further clarity about the independent review of the W...

I can give the hon. Gentleman that confirmation. It will be for Ministers to make sure that the p...

On the regulatory issues in Northern Ireland, several laws have been passed in Europe—we hear tha...

The review will be based on the entirety of law, but essentially it has to look forward. The hon....

It is worth making the point that while the Secretary of State is right in his response on the re...

I could not have put it better myself. The hon. Gentleman is knowledgeable about the subject and ...

Does my right hon. Friend, who himself was on the European Scrutiny Committee, recognise that we ...

I had the pleasure of serving for five years on the European Scrutiny Committee under the wise ch...

The Secretary of State and everyone on these Benches will know that over the past two years, I ha...

Actually, for an element of law that would be triggered by the Stormont brake, I think the bigges...

The Secretary of State is at odds in making that argument. That is one argument that the Minister...

I am afraid that the right hon. Gentleman is completely wrong. I know that he has written to my r...

We are obviously debating the regulations, but may I point right hon. and hon. Members to annex A...

I thank my right hon. Friend for making that point. He is right that a lot of noise and heat have...

I thank the Secretary of State for being generous in giving way. As he knows, I always try to be ...

I believe that it does—100%.

Someone wanting to send goods from GB to NI would naturally expect to use the new internal market...

It is the UK Government in that area.

Further to that point, in respect of paragraph 96 of the Command Paper, will the Secretary of Sta...

We will give legal direction to the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs on t...

We all accept that the DUP had a particular issue about all this, but does the Secretary of State...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for that point; he makes it fairly. To be honest with him, there was o...

I am grateful to the Secretary of State for giving way again. I think it has to be understood tha...

The hon. Gentleman is a friend of mine, so I hope that he does not mind my disagreeing with him o...

I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for being so generous. Does it not all boil down to this? A...

I agree with my right hon. and learned Friend, the Chair of the Northern Ireland Affairs Committe...

I am grateful to the Secretary of State for his explanation of the first set of regulations that ...

Some suggest that the Acts of Union should be as they were in 1801, but my hon. Friend the Member...

I am a teetotaller, so perhaps I do not feel the suffering in that example in the same way as oth...

Does the right hon. Member recognise the difference between a tariff being put on by this Parliam...

We have seen quite a lot of disruption to arrangements in recent years, have we not? The point I ...

indicated assent.

I see that the Secretary of State is nodding. It is also important to remind ourselves of the sig...

Does the right hon. Gentleman accept that there is a distinction between new and amended legislat...

I take that point, but we are talking about two separate categories: one is a long list relating ...

Does the shadow Secretary of State recognise that there is a different school of thought from som...

The hon. Member makes an extremely powerful and useful point. The businesses that I have spoken t...

Further to that point, which is a very good one, would the EU not decide to use its powers if Sto...

The Stormont brake was the result of a negotiation between the Government and the European Union....

What people have missed over the past few weeks is the cross-party support for both the Windsor f...

The right hon. Gentleman makes an extremely powerful point. I hope everyone will notice the near—...

I am not trying to rail against reality; I am just seeking the truth. Would it be a fair summing-...

It is very kind of the right hon. Gentleman to say that we are intensely relaxed about the prospe...

There is obviously a big time pressure on this debate. I want to bring the Secretary of State bac...

I will certainly bear that exhortation in mind, Madam Deputy Speaker.

This debate has prope...

A lot of this is quite surreal, because it falls into the grounds of piffle. I remember sitting i...

I feel the emotion and hear the proper points that the hon. Gentleman makes. The process became t...

I call the Scottish National party spokesperson.

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My party and I have never made any secret of our disagreement with Brexit and the manner in which...

The hon. Gentleman says that he does not begrudge us the achievement of some of the objectives th...

The border is certainly a complex one to try to police, and that has been at the forefront of man...

Order. Let me once again emphasise the need for brevity so that we can get the majority of people...

Section 38 of the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020 prescribes that parliamentary so...

The Chairman of the European Scrutiny Committee, who is my friend, has outlined his concern about...

I am extremely glad to hear the hon. Gentleman make that point.

To conclude, I simply say t...

It is an honour to follow the hon. Member for Stone (Sir William Cash); we truly value his contin...

I thank my right hon. Friend and colleague for bringing that forward. He is absolutely right to s...

I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention. He restates a point he made earlier to the Secretary...

I thank the leader of the party for his comments. This is crucial: it affects every single person...

I need add nothing to the point made by my hon. Friend. We welcome the explicit reference in the ...

May I put it on record that I think the right hon. Gentleman has done a lot of good work over the...

The hon. Member has made his point with fortitude and determination, but he will understand that ...

I echo the right hon. Gentleman’s sentiments about paragraph 47 in annex A. I want to comment on ...

I thank the hon. Member for his intervention, his continuing interest in Northern Ireland and his...

I acknowledge the point made by my right hon. Friend, but does he also accept that, in proposed n...

I urge my right hon. Friend to read all the proposals. If he does, he will see that a new statuto...

I pay tribute to the nationalist and other parties who have been patient during the process, and ...

With the leave of the house, I will answer a few of the points that have been raised. We have hea...

The right hon. Member makes reference to the fact that, within the legislation, there is now a sa...

I thank the hon. Lady for her question. Before I answer it, may I say that I owe her an apology, ...