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HANSARDGrowth StrategyIt does not mention Brexit. Brexit is not in the article.21 Jan 2020HANSARDDirect Payments to Farmers (Legislative Continuity) BillDoes the hon. Gentleman think that people need to change their diets? How can we have more British-grown food?21 Jan 2020HANSARDGrowth StrategyI beg to move, That this House has considered the growth strategy for the UK. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hollobone. A most welcome change has occurred…21 Jan 2020HANSARDGrowth StrategyIndeed, and I welcome the emphasis placed on that by the Prime Minister and Ministers. I hope that we can give them some more ideas on how that can become realistic policy. I am…21 Jan 2020HANSARDGrowth StrategyYes, I am happy for there to be attractive reasons why people should go to the parts of the economy that have been less heavily invested in and that are less pressurised. However,…21 Jan 2020HANSARDGrowth StrategyMost people buy a house because they want somewhere to live that is theirs, and that they can then do up and change in the way they see fit, subject to planning. But yes, of…21 Jan 2020HANSARDEducation and Local GovernmentWest Berkshire and Wokingham are very appreciative that at last we are going to get a bit more money, which we really need for our schools, and I am grateful for the work the…14 Jan 2020HANSARDBritain in the WorldWill my right hon. Friend add the Commonwealth to his list of organisations that will be increasingly important? We have a number of very close ties with the Commonwealth, to…13 Jan 2020HANSARDBritain in the WorldDoes my right hon. Friend agree as well that in order to have flexibility, it is very important that we have the key military technologies under our own control, and the…13 Jan 2020HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillBut does the hon. Lady not understand the message of the referendum and the election? There are very large numbers of directly acting regulations that we can do nothing about, and…08 Jan 2020HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillWill the Minister make sure, in the discussions with the devolved Governments, that the interests of England are also central to his considerations? We do not have a devolved…08 Jan 2020HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillGood advice, but I am trying to address the SNP point related to its proposals on how we treat devolved government fairly and whether we are listening properly to Scotland. I…08 Jan 2020HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillMy right hon. Friend puts it brilliantly; that is exactly the kind of limitation of our sovereign power, and of our freedom to make decisions that please our electors, that I have…08 Jan 2020HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillClause 38 is welcome. I pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Stone (Sir William Cash) for being one of the co-authors of that excellent piece of Government-proposed…08 Jan 2020HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillLet me elucidate the point. I sometimes think the Opposition do not seem to understand that we are in the WTO through the EU anyway. The whole EU is governed by WTO rules and the…08 Jan 2020HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillI am very much in favour of clause 38, which reasserts our sovereignty. If the European Union wanted to legislate punitively against us during the implementation period, can I…08 Jan 2020HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillNobody is disputing that we can pass laws while a member of the EU as long as the EU allows us to. It is quite simple.08 Jan 2020HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillI gently remind the hon. Member that during the election senior Labour people argued passionately that it was fine for a leave voter to vote Labour and that they were not all in…08 Jan 2020HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillCan my right hon. Friend give us an estimate of how much the implementation period will cost us, and will he reassure us that once we are out properly at the end of this year,…07 Jan 2020HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillThose of us who have had to study European Union affairs for all too long, because they affect our own country so much, have learned from bitter experience that deals nearly…07 Jan 2020