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HANSARDLeaving the EUAs my right hon. Friend already knows, I want to see the future relationship in place by the beginning of 2021, which is well in advance of the next general election. The other…12 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the EUWhat I am doing is working to ensure that we can bring a deal back to the House. It will then be for the right hon. Gentleman and other Members of the House to determine whether…12 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the EUThere will be a number of statutory instruments that the House will be addressing. The House will be working hard on Brexit arrangements next week. On the issue of tariffs in the…12 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the EUThe extension of article 50 does not solve the problem. The only way to solve the problem of having no deal is to agree a deal. The right hon. Lady says that my delays have caused…12 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the EUObviously, what we are doing now is working with the EU to achieve what this Parliament has said it wants to see achieved, notably legally binding changes to the backstop that…12 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the EUI have consistently said— and I made the point in my statement this afternoon—that what I want and what the Government want is a deal with the European Union. But there is only…12 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the EUThank you, Mr Speaker. I say to the right hon. Member for Ross, Skye and Lochaber (Ian Blackford) that, in his intervention from a sedentary position, I think he may have…12 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the EUThe right hon. Gentleman has been making the same points in response to my statements, regardless of their content, for some time now. He talks about the economic analysis, and we…12 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the EUMy right hon. and learned Friend is absolutely right that the economic partnership agreement with Japan came into force on 1 February. Of course, prior to that, we had been…12 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the EUI recognise hon. Members’ concerns regarding the legally binding nature of any changes that are achieved. Of course, the Attorney General will make information available to the…12 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the EUMy hon. Friend has made an important point, which is that if it is the case that we believe that we want to make trade agreements with countries around the world on terms other…12 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the EUI refer the hon. Lady to the answer I gave to that question earlier.12 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the EUWhen I was in Northern Ireland, I met the five political parties. I met representatives from civil society and businesses. They were making a variety of points in relation to this…12 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the EUCertainly, when I go on the doorsteps, I do get from people an urgent desire to get this sorted—not to get a second referendum and a people’s vote but actually to deliver on the…12 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the EUThe choice that this House and Members of this House will face—this choice will come at whatever point, but I believe that it should come before 29 March so we can deliver on…12 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the EUI am not quite sure what timescale the hon. Gentleman thinks he would save by having a second referendum, because that in itself would take considerable time to take through the…12 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the EUThe hon. Gentleman suggests that I revoke article 50. Revoking article 50 means going back on the result of the 2016 referendum—12 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the EUIt is no good the hon. Gentleman shaking his head. What the European Court of Justice made clear in its determination was that it was open to an individual member state to request…12 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the EUWhat the Government are doing is taking the instruction of this Parliament, which was to get changes to the withdrawal agreement and to the backstop, so that this Parliament can…12 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the EUThe hon. Gentleman talks about money spent. Money was indeed spent on securing all the contracts let. Third-party due diligence was properly carried out and would have been…12 Feb 2019