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HANSARDPoints of OrderFurther to that point of order, Mr Speaker. I would not seek for a minute to challenge your decision, not least because you would rule me out of order, but I have to say that I…09 Sept 2019HANSARDProrogation (Disclosure of Communications)May I pursue the point about the evidence presented by the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster to the Select Committee last Thursday? I did indeed ask him whether he would…09 Sept 2019HANSARDExports: No DealAbout 3 million wooden pallets are used every month to transport goods, including food, between the UK and the EU. After a no-deal Brexit, those wooden pallets will no longer be…05 Sept 2019HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) BillI will give way in a moment. In other words, the Bill gives the Prime Minister the flexibility that he wants and needs to get a deal if he can. It does not render further…04 Sept 2019HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) BillI will take just one more intervention at this stage, because many people want to speak and time is short.04 Sept 2019HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) BillI can only agree, and I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for being one of the Bill’s sponsors.04 Sept 2019HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) BillI think I have just explained the reason, which has been made clear by my right hon. Friend the leader of the Labour party, my right hon. and learned Friend the shadow Secretary…04 Sept 2019HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) BillThere may well be a general election at some point, but this legislation needs to be passed. It needs to go through the other place and receive Royal Assent, and it needs to be…04 Sept 2019HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) BillI will give way one more time.04 Sept 2019HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) BillI completely agree with my hon. Friend. That is one of the many unanswered questions about what happens the other side of Halloween. I shall come back to that point a little later…04 Sept 2019HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) BillI have not had a chance to read the final version, and it will be tabled with the Clerks during this Second Reading debate, but I am aware of the intention of the amendment and I…04 Sept 2019HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) BillI beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. I want to say at the start that every Member of this House, whatever view they hold on the fundamental political question…04 Sept 2019HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) BillI do not know where these sector deals are. My concern, and the reason for this Bill and the support I hope it will enjoy in the House today, is that the Prime Minister has made…04 Sept 2019HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) BillIf the Bill is passed, the House of Commons will pass it in the knowledge that it is seeking in the circumstances set out an extension to 31 January. If, however, the European…04 Sept 2019HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) BillI have dealt with that last point—an extension of whatever length. There is a means by which the Government can ask the House not to approve that, and then the House would have to…04 Sept 2019HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) BillWill the hon. Lady bear with me? The previous Prime Minister spent nearly two years saying that no deal is better than a bad deal and it did not seem to work then, and I do not…04 Sept 2019HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) BillThe hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. Throughout a lot of these debates we have not discussed anything like enough what will happen the other side of 31 October, if the Prime…04 Sept 2019HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) BillThey absolutely do. Having now, in a sense, concluded a discussion and reflection on the economic and other consequences of no deal, I want to turn to what the Bill actually does.…04 Sept 2019HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) BillThe right hon. Lady is absolutely right. One consequence of Prorogation is that our Select Committees cannot meet. We cannot scrutinise the Government and hold them to account.…04 Sept 2019HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) BillI respectfully disagree with the hon. Gentleman, because just as no deal is unacceptable, so revocation—which is basically saying, “Let’s cancel the whole result of the…04 Sept 2019