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HANSARD Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillWe can always discuss amendments. The ones I am supporting are the Government amendments, which provide the certainty and clarity that Members in both Houses have asked for. What…11 May 2023HANSARD Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI do not disagree with that, but the statutory instruments that I would want us to be focused on in this House should be the ones that are repealing EU law; all those hundreds of…11 May 2023HANSARD Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillThat is right. I have published the dashboard that shows all of the laws that have been identified. Some are still, even as we speak, being identified now. The MOJ has done a good…11 May 2023HANSARD Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI am trying really hard not to laugh at what the hon. Lady has said. She is in a party that cannot even decide who paid for a caravan and is falling into a complete shambles. How…11 May 2023HANSARD Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillThere is still a sunset, and it will end the interpretive effects of the supremacy of EU law. The same number of measures that we were likely to revoke by the sunset will be in…11 May 2023HANSARD Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillBecause I am in Switzerland next week and in the middle east the week after. As I said to the Chair of the European Scrutiny Committee, I am happy to appear in front of the…11 May 2023HANSARD Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI thank my hon. Friend for his comments. That is exactly what this approach is trying to generate. We need to find the things that we know are holding Britain back, rather than…11 May 2023HANSARD Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillThe hon. Lady will know that I was not privy to those conversations. If she writes to me with the specifics, I should be able to provide an answer. What we have talked about…11 May 2023HANSARD Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillYou can see a classic example of what I am talking about, Mr Speaker. The hon. Lady complains that the sunset would not allow her constituents to know what is being repealed, but…11 May 2023HANSARD Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillIt was not the right procedure.11 May 2023HANSARD Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillThe hon. Gentleman will be pleased to know that this change in approach actually helps with that. It allows us to continue beyond the end of this year, whereas the Bill as…11 May 2023HANSARDIndia Trade NegotiationsThe eighth round UK-India free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations took place from 20-31 March. The ninth round took place shortly afterwards, from 24-28 April. As with previous…11 May 2023HANSARD Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI can reassure the hon. Gentleman that this is not a change in policy: it is a change in approach, using a schedule to list exactly what we are removing. The purpose of the Bill…11 May 2023HANSARD Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI am very happy to say that. I was not involved in negotiations on the Windsor framework, and I have said repeatedly that this is my plan. It is not the Prime Minister’s plan, and…11 May 2023HANSARD Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillNo, that is complete nonsense. The hon. Gentleman is talking about what he hopes and wishes would happen, rather than the reality.11 May 2023HANSARD Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillNo, I do not think that it has come out of any idleness. If anything, I would say that the civil servants have been working feverishly on this, and what they have been doing is…11 May 2023HANSARD Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillIt is very surprising to hear the hon. Lady criticise the scrutiny process given that it was brought in by a Labour Government under the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act…11 May 2023HANSARD Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillThe point that the laws that we are not having on the schedule will either be kept or reformed—the reform process will be scrutinised in the House—is one that I have explained…11 May 2023HANSARD Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI completely agree with my hon. Friend. He is absolutely right: the Bill provides business certainty and legal certainty and removes interpretive effects and the supremacy of EU…11 May 2023HANSARD Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillThe hon. Lady calls herself a silly MP; it is not my place to disagree. She asks about the changes to holiday pay. We are just making the bureaucracy easier; we are not taking…11 May 2023