Brexit Readiness and Operation Yellowhammer

My Lords, I am very puzzled by a great deal in this Statement. The optimism on negotiations sugge...

I thank the noble Baroness and the noble Lord for their comments. Let me run through their questi...

My Lords, I wonder whether the Minister can help me. When I heard him replying to a question on t...

I will stick by the statements that I made earlier. For those that were not here earlier, let me ...

My Lords, ages ago we were told that there were some essential Bills to go through before the 29 ...

Those Bills are not essential. We have all the appropriate legislation in place to enable our dep...

My Lords, this debate —for want of a better word—demonstrates, I am sure the noble Lord would agr...

I do in fact agree with a large part of the most reverend Primate’s remarks. I was not going to s...

The noble Lord, Lord Callanan, seems to give the impression that the referendum result was unambi...

I do not know what the noble Lord’s definition of ambiguity is, but in response to the question “...

Just before we were so rudely interrupted on 9 September, the Secretary of State, Mr Gove, gave e...

The noble Lord, Lord Kerr, asks a number of questions. In response to his first question, yes, we...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for repeating this Statement, which says that in leaving the EU th...

Unsurprisingly, no I would not agree. We can have different standards. A lot of the EU standards ...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for repeating the Statement and apologise for missing the first co...

I think the noble Baroness has had too much sun during her vacation. I think I am correct in sayi...

My Lords, can I ask the Minister about an aspect of Yellowhammer that he did not refer to and whi...

Let me explain to the noble Lord what these assumptions are all about. The Cabinet’s civil contin...

My Lords, the noble Lord specifically referred to shellfish in his Statement—an industry of consi...

We will of course do our level best to make sure that the flow at the border does not result in a...

My Lords, the equivocal position of the Minister on standards, which he laid out this afternoon, ...

With regard to his first question, the noble Lord knows very well that I cannot commit to promisi...