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HANSARD Preparations for Leaving the EUWe have reciprocal healthcare agreements with a number of member states. Spain is the most prominent, but we are working through each of the member states. I will be sure to write…08 Oct 2019HANSARD Preparations for Leaving the EUI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for raising the matter. First, let me say that I was not in on that telephone call. Secondly, let me affirm that the Bundeskanzlerin and the…08 Oct 2019HANSARD Preparations for Leaving the EUYes, I think it is, but it is also important that if we put to one side the rhetoric that organisations often use to try to secure attention and look in a granular way—…08 Oct 2019HANSARD Preparations for Leaving the EUThank you, Mr Speaker. If we put aside the rhetoric for one moment, there are granular issues that local resilience forums and local enterprise partnerships address. I would be…08 Oct 2019HANSARD Preparations for Leaving the EUAbsolutely. We could have been out of the European Union with a deal if Opposition Members had backed the Prime Minister, Theresa May, in her efforts.08 Oct 2019HANSARD Preparations for Leaving the EUMy right hon. Friend was kind enough to say that I was courteous; I also thank him for the courtesy and thoughtfulness with which he addresses every issue in this House. He is…08 Oct 2019HANSARD Preparations for Leaving the EUI am confident that we will make progress on aviation, but I understand its importance to my hon. Friend and his constituents.08 Oct 2019HANSARD Preparations for Leaving the EUMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. I know that there were good people who voted for the right hon. Gentleman’s Act thinking that it would help the country, and I do not cast any…08 Oct 2019HANSARD Preparations for Leaving the EUMy right hon. Friend is absolutely right: Minette Batters is a powerful and effective advocate for farmers in the UK, and she too is right. I know from my previous job, and from…08 Oct 2019HANSARD Preparations for Leaving the EUWe are taking steps to improve animal welfare standards when we leave the EU, not least by taking steps to end the live export of animals to Europe. We are also introducing…08 Oct 2019HANSARD Preparations for Leaving the EUBusinesses in Newcastle and the north-east, and more broadly, are at various different states of readiness. Some companies that are fully ready see opportunities to grow from the…08 Oct 2019HANSARD Preparations for Leaving the EUBusiness takes a variety of views on Brexit, and indeed on a no-deal Brexit, but I have yet to meet a single business man, woman or organisation that thinks that a no-deal Brexit…08 Oct 2019HANSARD Preparations for Leaving the EUI thank my right hon. Friend for the enormous amount of work he did when he was Secretary of State for Transport to prepare us for leaving without a deal and the opportunities of…08 Oct 2019HANSARD Preparations for Leaving the EUWe are currently revising those estimates, and we hope to publish that revision. One of the key things is that the HMRC calculation of which companies will be ready depends on…08 Oct 2019HANSARD Preparations for Leaving the EUAlmost all. There are still one or two statutory instruments that need to be passed.08 Oct 2019HANSARD Preparations for Leaving the EUMy hon. Friend is right. As I mentioned earlier, some member states have been more generous than others. We respect the political constraints under which some Governments operate,…08 Oct 2019HANSARD Preparations for Leaving the EUThat is not a matter for me.08 Oct 2019HANSARD Preparations for Leaving the EUI think it would, and, to be fair, the attitude of EU member states and others towards the proposition that we have put forward would, I hope, be warmer and more flexible if they…08 Oct 2019HANSARD Preparations for Leaving the EUThey should pay attention and do everything they are asked to by the outstanding Member of Parliament for Walsall North.08 Oct 2019HANSARD Preparations for Leaving the EUBoth the hon. Gentleman and I have been trade union members. We have both been involved in industrial action and we both know how important it is to uphold workers’ rights. I have…08 Oct 2019