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HANSARDWithdrawal Agreement: Proposed ChangesThe reason why they are an improvement on the backstop is that the backstop could have left Northern Ireland linked to the EU in perpetuity without any consent. This consent…07 Oct 2019HANSARDWithdrawal Agreement: Proposed ChangesI have tried to be as open as I can within the remit of trying to get a good negotiation. On the record, in response to an earlier question, I went through the trusted trader…07 Oct 2019HANSARDWithdrawal Agreement: Proposed ChangesMy right hon. Friend served in the Department for Transport and knows these issues incredibly well. I look forward to talking to him in more detail about East Midlands airport and…07 Oct 2019HANSARDWithdrawal Agreement: Proposed ChangesIf Parliament had not been in Session, I would have been helping to negotiate with member states, and perhaps we would have collectively, having spent more time doing that, got a…07 Oct 2019HANSARDWithdrawal Agreement: Proposed ChangesI am flabbergasted that the hon. Gentleman says he does not know who I am, because previously when I was at the Dispatch Box he asked me whether I knew about Huddersfield, and…07 Oct 2019HANSARDWithdrawal Agreement: Proposed ChangesI thank my hon. Friend for speaking up for Scotland in this Parliament, and for focusing on the nitty-gritty of the economy. No deal will not be as good as a deal for the whole…07 Oct 2019HANSARDWithdrawal Agreement: Proposed ChangesI thank my hon. Friend for speaking up for Scotland. He raises a very important point about fund distribution, and while some of these things are in the purview of the Cabinet…07 Oct 2019HANSARDWithdrawal Agreement: Proposed ChangesTo paraphrase a famous quotation: well, they would say that, wouldn’t they? EU representatives are negotiating. When we put papers in front of them, they are not going to say,…07 Oct 2019HANSARDWithdrawal Agreement: Proposed ChangesWhere there’s a will, there’s a way. People said that it was impossible that negotiations would reopen, but negotiations did effectively reopen after the Prime Minister spoke to…07 Oct 2019HANSARDWithdrawal Agreement: Proposed ChangesI thank the hon. Gentleman for raising that. Obviously, the broader case is that the convention of the ’50s on extradition will come into play. There is a problem with four or…07 Oct 2019HANSARDWithdrawal Agreement: Proposed ChangesI thank my right hon. Friend, and confirm that nothing has changed since his birthday—I think that that was what he was referring to. Apologies for not congratulating him at the…07 Oct 2019HANSARDWithdrawal Agreement: Proposed ChangesIn answer to the latter question, yes. When it comes to slippery poles, the thing that is slippery is introducing a ten-minute rule Bill to say that if hon. Members, for whatever…07 Oct 2019HANSARDWithdrawal Agreement: Proposed ChangesI think the Government expect cross-party support because there are a number of colleagues who have behaved very reasonably. I am afraid I did not hear who the hon. Lady was…07 Oct 2019HANSARDWithdrawal Agreement: Proposed ChangesTo be frank, I was not being careful with my terminology. If the hon. Gentleman is asking, “Is there no infrastructure?”, there is no infrastructure. In relation to cameras, I saw…07 Oct 2019HANSARDGeneral Affairs CouncilThe UK did not attend the General Affairs Council (GAC) in Brussels on 16 September 2019. The UK Government have decided that from 1 September until exit day, UK Ministers and…03 Oct 2019HANSARD Irish Border: Customs ArrangementsFirst, I have not said what is or is not in the non-papers. As a Minister, I see all the papers I need to see. I am not going to list papers that I have seen, papers that I have…01 Oct 2019HANSARD Irish Border: Customs ArrangementsBefore the weekend.01 Oct 2019HANSARD Irish Border: Customs ArrangementsThat is not the Government’s plan. The Government’s plan is to get Stormont going.01 Oct 2019HANSARD Irish Border: Customs ArrangementsWe are committed to finding a solution to the north-south border that protects the Belfast/Good Friday agreement. We can best meet those commitments if we explore solutions other…01 Oct 2019HANSARD Irish Border: Customs ArrangementsThere were eight or nine questions there, and I will try to cover them all, but if I do not, perhaps we will pick them up in questions. I think it is completely reasonable that…01 Oct 2019