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HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI think I am grateful to the hon. Lady. I will come back to this point in due course, but she will have seen that there is an explainer for each and every one of the 587…24 May 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillMy hon. Friend the Chair of the Justice Committee makes important points, and I hope that I can reassure him on some of them in my next two paragraphs. To answer his very last…24 May 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI am delighted that the Attorney General says that so loudly from a sedentary position, because she took at least some of those measures through this House. I am grateful to her…24 May 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI pay tribute to my hon. Friend for all his work in this area. He will have heard the Secretary of State’s call for greater scrutiny and for a breadth of experience, which she is…24 May 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillThe hon. Gentleman, I know, will forgive me because I have been a very long time and I must make some progress. It perpetuates a situation that is unacceptable to the Government…24 May 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillAs my hon. Friend knows, I pay enormous deference to those experienced in the law—not least to him, as long-standing Chairman of the Justice Committee—but he heard my response:…24 May 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillHaving given way to my hon. Friend the Chair of the Select Committee, of course I give way to the hon. Gentleman.24 May 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI sort of agree—although that is a little bit of a facetious way to put it from the hon. Gentleman, but there it is. To deliver clarity, to remove the principle of supremacy in…24 May 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI do agree with my hon. Friend, who is absolutely right. That is the whole purpose of this Bill and the reason we are ending the supremacy of retained EU law. I turn now to Lords…24 May 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillNo, I will not. I have given way twice to the hon. Lady and I am going to make progress. However, we recognise the need to protect environmental and food standards. Therefore, I…24 May 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI have given way to my hon. Friend once, but not twice, so I will give way to him again.24 May 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI am grateful again to my hon. Friend; I am glad I gave way to him twice and did not leave him there, asking without receiving an answer. I can simply repeat the assurances that…24 May 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI will not. The sifting procedure will provide additional scrutiny of the powers, while retaining the flexibility of using the negative procedure when there are good reasons for…24 May 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillThank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I fear I have tried your patience for too long, so I will seek to conclude. I know a number of other right hon. and hon. Members want to catch…24 May 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillWhat a great pleasure it is to follow the winding-up speech from the Back Benches by my hon. Friend the Member for Devizes (Danny Kruger). I agree with him entirely. This has been…24 May 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillShe is shaking her head. Well, she is missing out, because she would enjoy it and do it well. She made an impassioned speech on why she believes that we should have remained in…24 May 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI am very grateful indeed to the right hon. Gentleman for his engagement throughout the debate, not only today but previously. He and I have engaged on certain related,…24 May 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI will, but it will be the last intervention that I take.24 May 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI am very grateful to my hon. Friend, the Chairman of the European Scrutiny Committee, for that point. I believe he has been a member of the Committee since 1985 and has chaired…24 May 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillThe hon. Lady intervenes at a very early stage in the debate. I have not even concluded my preamble, let alone turned to the individual amendments, which I will, of course,…24 May 2023