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HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillI will give way, because it will give me an opportunity to get the sex of Madam Deputy Speaker right the second time.09 Jan 2020HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillI thank my right hon. Friend for his intervention. Just as we will be watching the House of Lords carefully next week, they have been watching us carefully during the Bill’s…09 Jan 2020HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillI have seen that report, but from my discussions with the Secretary of State, that does not reflect the tone of the meeting with the Prime Minister. There is a political…09 Jan 2020HANSARDEU CitizensI thank the right hon.— [ Interruption. ] Sorry, my hon. Friend—the title does not go with the constituency. I do not know her well, but she is already a great improvement, and I…09 Jan 2020HANSARDEU CitizensSuch issues are for the Home Office, but an advantage of taking back control is that we can look at our relationships with other parts of the world, particularly the Commonwealth,…09 Jan 2020HANSARDEU CitizensThe settlement scheme is free.09 Jan 2020HANSARDEU CitizensI am more than happy to meet my right hon. Friend to talk about the specifics of that case and the EU settlement scheme. Yesterday the Minister for immigration talked about why…09 Jan 2020HANSARDEU CitizensThe Secretary of State regularly discusses the rights of EU citizens with the Home Secretary and other Cabinet colleagues. To protect the right to reside, EU citizens who are…09 Jan 2020HANSARDEU CitizensMy hon. Friend makes a good point. The Prime Minister made a big, bold offer for EU citizens, and we urge member states to do the same.09 Jan 2020HANSARDNHSI welcome my hon. Friend to the House and can certainly confirm that.09 Jan 2020HANSARDNHSThe hon. Lady talks about bureaucracy, but one of the reasons why we want to take back control is to reduce that bureaucracy. We will be in control of our own destiny to manage…09 Jan 2020HANSARDNHSThere have been improvements in tier 2 visas and 700 more EU doctors have come on board. The hon. Lady talks about the manifesto and 50,000 more nurses. We will do more on the…09 Jan 2020HANSARDNHSThe Government are moving forward on the implementation of the withdrawal agreement, and we are confident that the deal will be ratified on 31 January. Under the terms of the…09 Jan 2020HANSARDNHSI congratulate my hon. Friend on his election. His experience as an A&E doctor will, I am sure, pay dividends here. I promised my office that I would make no jokes about his…09 Jan 2020HANSARDEuropean Court of JusticeI agree with my hon. Friend. I recognise the importance of this issue as I, too, represent a coastal constituency. As we leave the EU, we will be an independent coastal state and…09 Jan 2020HANSARDEuropean Court of JusticeI congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Great Grimsby (Lia Nici) on her election as the first Conservative MP for Great Grimsby since 1945—fantastic! The withdrawal agreement…09 Jan 2020HANSARDEuropean Court of JusticeIt is wonderful to see my hon. Friend in the Chamber—he is not the first Conservative MP for his constituency since 1945, but the first ever Conservative MP for Heywood and…09 Jan 2020HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal) ActsI beg to move, That this House approves, for the purposes of section 2(2)(a) of the European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 2) Act 2019, the report made by the Secretary of State for…08 Jan 2020HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillLater in my speech, I will highlight areas where we are going to go further. Perhaps I will give way to the hon. Gentleman again at that point if what I say does not give him…08 Jan 2020HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillNo; that is not what I said, and our intention is not as the hon. Gentleman suggests. But it is for this Parliament to decide what it wants to do, rather than simply following…08 Jan 2020