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HANSARD EU: Withdrawal and Future Relationship (Motions)I am sorry if I was not clear. It is not an instruction; it is a recommendation. That is entirely different when it comes to whipping.27 Mar 2019HANSARD EU: Withdrawal and Future Relationship (Motions)The hon. and learned Lady mentioned the spirit of cross-party working. She also asked about the Labour whipping arrangements, and I can assure her, as one of those who has signed…27 Mar 2019HANSARDMedicinal Cannabis ProductsThe Health Committee heard last week that patients are dying unnecessarily and up to a million families are being driven to criminality by getting medical cannabis illegally, and…26 Mar 2019HANSARD Article 50 ExtensionDoes my right hon. and learned Friend agree that it is absolutely ridiculous to suggest the idea of participating in democratic elections this May as the main reason for this…20 Mar 2019HANSARD Article 50 ExtensionI did not think it was possible to feel more outrage at or contempt for the behaviour of this Government and this Prime Minister. The right hon. and learned Member for…20 Mar 2019HANSARD Article 50 Extension ProcedureThe Minister seems to be the only person in this House who thinks the deal can be agreed before this week’s European Council meeting. It is not going to be; let us get real about…18 Mar 2019HANSARD Business of the HouseMay we have a statement from the Second Church Estates Commissioner, the right hon. Member for Meriden (Dame Caroline Spelman), on the outrageous decision by the Church of England…14 Mar 2019HANSARD UK’s Withdrawal from the European UnionAs always, I am extremely grateful for the words that my right hon. and learned Friend has to say on another referendum, but does he understand that many Opposition Members are…14 Mar 2019HANSARDUK’s Withdrawal from the European UnionWill the Secretary of State give way?13 Mar 2019HANSARDUK’s Withdrawal from the European UnionGiven what my right hon. and learned Friend said a moment or two ago, which was absolutely right, about the Government’s repeated failure to seek consensus to get us out of this…13 Mar 2019HANSARDUK’s Withdrawal from the European UnionWill the right hon. Gentleman now attempt to answer the question asked by the right hon. Member for Broxtowe (Anna Soubry) and explain the media reports? Given that the Prime…13 Mar 2019HANSARDEU Withdrawal Agreement: Legal ChangesWill the Minister acknowledge that tabling an amendment with Government support tomorrow to make support conditional on a not-yet-negotiated agreement would fulfil neither the…11 Mar 2019HANSARDHealth and Social Care CommitteeI congratulate my hon. Friend on his excellent chairing of the inquiry, his drafting of the report and his speech. Children in their first 1,000 years do not have as much of a…28 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the European UnionIs not the crucial difference between what the Prime Minister is proposing and the proposal of the right hon. Member for West Dorset (Sir Oliver Letwin) and my right hon. Friend…26 Feb 2019HANSARD Honda in SwindonThis is a devastating blow for the south-west, Swindon and the wider UK manufacturing base. Does the Secretary of State not accept that it is a fact that our not being in the new…19 Feb 2019HANSARD UK’s Withdrawal from the EUFollowing my right hon. and learned Friend’s replies to the hon. Members for Bracknell (Dr Lee) and for Totnes (Dr Wollaston), does he agree that the Government have clearly…14 Feb 2019HANSARDDraft Employment Rights (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019
Draft Employment Rights (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019
Draft Employment Rights (Amendment) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2018
Draft Employment Rights (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2018I was not referring to the hon. Gentleman, of course, but I invite him to study the writings and comments of members of the European Research Group and their favourite economist,…13 Feb 2019HANSARDDraft Employment Rights (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019
Draft Employment Rights (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019
Draft Employment Rights (Amendment) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2018
Draft Employment Rights (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2018It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Evans. I want to pick up where my hon. Friend the Member for Wallasey finished: on the issue of trust. I know the Minister to…13 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the EUWith the Prime Minister recklessly running down the clock to a crash-out Brexit, can I say to the responsible members of her Government that if they fail to act soon to prevent…12 Feb 2019HANSARDNissan in SunderlandI thank the Secretary of State and his like-minded colleagues for what we read they are trying to do to avert a ruinous no-deal Brexit, as he just described it, but I gently…04 Feb 2019