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HANSARD Future Free Trade AgreementsI thank the shadow Secretary of State for giving way and for the excellent speech that he is making. When I asked the Secretary of State earlier whether, given the different sizes…21 Feb 2019HANSARD Future Free Trade AgreementsI really appreciate the hon. Gentleman’s anecdotes about sheep farming. He talks about improvements in efficiency, but does he recognise that our landscape—I am thinking…21 Feb 2019HANSARD Future Free Trade AgreementsI thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention, but let us be clear. He gives the example of wine—we are not huge producers of that in Northumberland—and fruit, but I am talking…21 Feb 2019HANSARD Future Free Trade AgreementsIt is a pleasure and an honour to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Warwick and Leamington (Matt Western) in speaking in this debate. This has been a tumultuous week in British…21 Feb 2019HANSARD Future Free Trade AgreementsI thank the Minister for that intervention and for giving me the opportunity to reiterate that, as my hon. Friend the Member for Brent North (Barry Gardiner), the shadow Secretary…21 Feb 2019HANSARD Future Free Trade AgreementsI do not know whether the hon. Gentleman was in his place when I started speaking, but I acknowledge that Honda’s decision is not entirely based on Brexit. However, as we have…21 Feb 2019HANSARD Future Free Trade AgreementsI thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. I had not seen the last set of quarterly figures. I hope that in the annual figures, we are still exporting more than we import, but…21 Feb 2019HANSARD Future Free Trade AgreementsI thank my hon. Friend for that excellent point. The competitiveness of the sector means that margins are narrow, so any such factor—Brexit and access to markets are significant…21 Feb 2019HANSARD Future Free Trade AgreementsMy hon. Friend raises a very unpleasant memory for me of when, as an engineering student at Imperial, back in the ’80s, I heard Margaret Thatcher say that the UK was going to be…21 Feb 2019HANSARD Future Free Trade AgreementsI will give way, but I do not wish to emulate others in making long speeches.21 Feb 2019HANSARD Future Free Trade AgreementsI thank my hon. Friend for that important point. Many organisations, such as the Manufacturing Trade Remedies Alliance, have explicitly come out against the Government’s deal and…21 Feb 2019HANSARD Future Free Trade AgreementsThe Minister knows very well that the business organisations that have said that to me—I speak to them extensively as a shadow Minister—do not wish their names to be given. […21 Feb 2019HANSARD Deprivation of Citizenship StatusThe actions and words of Shamima Begum are reprehensible and almost undoubtedly illegal, but we are not to know because the Secretary of State has rejected due process and the law…20 Feb 2019HANSARDTerms and Conditions of EmploymentMy hon. Friend makes an excellent point. The burden of debt has been shifted. We still have our public debt, but the burden has been shifted on to our poorest families. The…19 Feb 2019HANSARD Exiting the European Union (Structural and Investment Funds)I thank the Minister for setting out the technical details of the statutory instrument so clearly. Here we have yet another statutory instrument that makes provision for the…19 Feb 2019HANSARD Exiting the European Union (Structural and Investment Funds)On transport.19 Feb 2019HANSARDTerms and Conditions of EmploymentIn the Labour party’s long history of standing up for working people, the introduction of the national minimum wage in 1998 was a particularly proud moment, and let us never…19 Feb 2019HANSARDTerms and Conditions of EmploymentI thank the Minister for that clarification. Is she saying that all staff at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy will be paid the London living wage from…19 Feb 2019HANSARDTerms and Conditions of EmploymentI thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention, but it does show a lack of understanding of the economic realities in our country. The richest are not paying their fair share;…19 Feb 2019HANSARDTerms and Conditions of EmploymentAs one of my colleagues helpfully says, the hon. Gentleman must wait and see. In our 2017 manifesto, we set out our fully funded taxation and spending policy. The hon. Gentleman…19 Feb 2019