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HANSARDEU Exit: End of Transition PeriodMy hon. Friend is right. We want to help and support business. That is why we have provided the funding that we have. One reason for publishing the reasonable worst-case scenario…23 Sept 2020HANSARDEU Exit: End of Transition PeriodThe hon. Lady makes an important point. The Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government will outline how the shared prosperity fund will be distributed. She…23 Sept 2020HANSARDEU Exit: End of Transition PeriodMy hon. Friend makes absolutely the right point. The certainty of knowing that we will leave on that date and the publication of the information today will, I hope, help…23 Sept 2020HANSARDEU Exit: End of Transition PeriodGoods coming from Ireland to Wales should not face impediment because we are staging our processes in the way that I described. For goods going the other way, much depends on the…23 Sept 2020HANSARDEU Exit: End of Transition PeriodI am grateful to my right hon. Friend. I was not aware that there were any diaries being published this week.23 Sept 2020HANSARDEU Exit: End of Transition PeriodYes. My hon. Friend is a brilliant advocate for the people of Consett and the whole of his constituency. There will not be an extension.23 Sept 2020HANSARDEU Exit: End of Transition PeriodThey have been developed. They are in operation now. We are refining with business exactly how they should operate for businesses’ benefit.23 Sept 2020HANSARDEU Exit: End of Transition PeriodMy right hon. Friend is absolutely right to raise that issue. It is because of the EU’s mishandling of the Airbus project that the US imposed tariffs on malt whisky that did not…23 Sept 2020HANSARDWithdrawal Agreement Joint CommitteeThe fourth meeting of the Withdrawal Agreement Joint Committee will take place on 28 September 2020 in Brussels, with delegations attending in person and by video conference. The…23 Sept 2020HANSARD Point of OrderFurther to that point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am grateful to the hon. Lady for raising it. The Paymaster General, who of course is a Cabinet Office Minister and does an…23 Sept 2020HANSARDEU Exit: End of Transition PeriodThe right hon. Gentleman makes an important point. One of the things that the Government have always stressed is that in the event of a no-deal exit, the sectors that would be…23 Sept 2020HANSARDEU Exit: End of Transition PeriodMy hon. Friend is absolutely correct that no deal is in nobody’s interests. The fact that the First Minister of Wales or the Mayor of London is holding out the prospect of an…23 Sept 2020HANSARDEU Exit: End of Transition PeriodMy hon. Friend makes a very good point. It is precisely because we want to avoid that scenario that we are sharing it today so that the Government can be held to account for doing…23 Sept 2020HANSARDEU Exit: End of Transition PeriodIt was published in July. It outlines the IT systems with which business will interact, but of course we are augmenting and updating it, so it will be published later this month.23 Sept 2020HANSARDEU Exit: End of Transition PeriodThe border operating model, which we published earlier, outlines the IT systems—23 Sept 2020HANSARDEU Exit: End of Transition PeriodEverything my right hon. Friend said I completely agreed with, apart from one thing—I cannot believe that he went to university in 1968. He looks much younger than that.23 Sept 2020HANSARDEU Exit: End of Transition PeriodI am grateful to the hon. Lady for raising that, and for the opportunity I had to visit Ulster Carpets in her constituency over the summer. The Government are committed to…23 Sept 2020HANSARDEU Exit: End of Transition PeriodMy hon. Friend is absolutely right that one of the benefits of departing from the EU is that we can safeguard our marine environment from predators, and we will take all steps…23 Sept 2020HANSARDUnited Kingdom Internal Market BillHow?14 Sept 2020HANSARDUnited Kingdom Internal Market BillDon’t be so hard on yourself.14 Sept 2020