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HANSARD Northern IrelandI can give the hon. Gentleman that confirmation. It will be for Ministers to make sure that the panel is completely independent.01 Feb 2024HANSARD Northern IrelandI had the pleasure of serving for five years on the European Scrutiny Committee under the wise chairmanship of my hon. Friend, and he is absolutely right. That scrutiny is what…01 Feb 2024HANSARD Northern IrelandAnyone who ever becomes Father of the House is obviously wise and well experienced and that was a particularly wise comment from a particularly well experienced hon. Member. My…01 Feb 2024HANSARD Northern IrelandThe hon. Gentleman is a friend of mine, so I hope that he does not mind my disagreeing with him on this. The Command Paper will, I hope, deliver the restoration of Stormont: the…01 Feb 2024HANSARD Northern IrelandIt is the UK Government in that area.01 Feb 2024HANSARD Northern IrelandWith the leave of the house, I will answer a few of the points that have been raised. We have heard a wide and varied range of contributions on all aspects of the regulations from…01 Feb 2024HANSARD Northern IrelandI agree with my right hon. and learned Friend, the Chair of the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee. He makes an important point eloquently, as ever. Mr Speaker—sorry, Madam Deputy…01 Feb 2024HANSARD Northern IrelandI believe that it does—100%.01 Feb 2024HANSARD United Kingdom Internal Marketindicated dissent .01 Feb 2024HANSARD Northern IrelandOn the example my right hon. Friend has given of VAT, that has just been done for a number of different things. I believe the latest one was solar panels, but I will check with…01 Feb 2024HANSARD Northern IrelandI thank my right hon. Friend for making that point. He is right that a lot of noise and heat have been generated in many ways by people who have done absolutely nothing in this…01 Feb 2024HANSARD Northern IrelandI thank the hon. Lady for her question. Before I answer it, may I say that I owe her an apology, because I completely misheard her question yesterday? I was having trouble hearing…01 Feb 2024HANSARD Northern IrelandI am afraid that the right hon. Gentleman is completely wrong. I know that he has written to my right hon. Friend the Minister for Food, Farming and Fisheries—I have his reply,…01 Feb 2024HANSARD Northern IrelandI beg to move, That the draft Windsor Framework (Constitutional Status of Northern Ireland) Regulations 2024, which were laid before this House on 31 January, be approved. Getting…01 Feb 2024HANSARD Northern IrelandI would love to be able to outline anything. I have a piece of paper with that on it; oh, it is blank—nothing, absolutely zero.01 Feb 2024HANSARD Northern IrelandI am afraid that the back of a postage stamp is too big to write what they have achieved. The right hon. Member for Lagan Valley (Sir Jeffrey M. Donaldson) has achieved so much in…01 Feb 2024HANSARD Northern IrelandI disagree with what the hon. Gentleman said at the end of his intervention and completely agree with what Sir Peter Brooke said at the time and our commitment to the Belfast/Good…01 Feb 2024HANSARD Northern IrelandI note my hon. Friend’s point. As I said yesterday, I hope he recognises what we are doing in this statutory instrument—making Northern Ireland’s place in the United Kingdom a…01 Feb 2024HANSARD Northern IrelandI thank my right hon. Friend for his question, which has been put before. It was put yesterday and it is a genuinely fair question. I can honestly say that this package of…01 Feb 2024HANSARD Northern IrelandYes: we have the withdrawal Act itself, and the right hon. Gentleman is sitting in the place that safeguards our laws themselves. It is right that we are updating domestic law to…01 Feb 2024