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HANSARDLeaving the European UnionThank you, Mr Hanson.04 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the European UnionThere would be 10% less money for public services, 10% fewer jobs, and we would be 10% less wealthy than we would otherwise be. The Treasury was right to share that with the…04 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the European UnionIf the Minister thinks that that is not the wisest thing to do, why did the Chancellor reassure businesses that that is exactly what is happening?04 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the European UnionIt is always fascinating to hear Conservative Members rubbishing their own party’s Chancellors and former Chancellors. The economy may not have lived up to the former Chancellor’s…04 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the European UnionI did not see the cartoon, but I think that was a line from a Mel Brooks movie, and the hon. Lady is right to characterise things in that way. That is why the idea that…04 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the European UnionWe could measure the pound at different points, but the hon. Gentleman will know that the pound has fallen since we took the decision to leave. That produced a short-term benefit…04 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the European UnionWe will come to that shortly. When she is questioned, the Prime Minister just keeps hitting the repeat button. She knows it is nonsense and, what is worse, she knows that…04 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the European UnionI shall be echoing my hon. Friend’s point in a moment. The immediate task that the Prime Minister has set herself is to reopen the deal that she said, two weeks ago, was…04 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the European UnionIt is a pleasure to wind up for the Opposition with you in the Chair, Mr Hanson. I congratulate the hon. Member for Sutton and Cheam (Paul Scully) on his introduction to the…04 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the European UnionWe are very clear why we would take no deal off the table. As the Prime Minister now acknowledges, as the Chancellor has spelled out and as the Treasury analysis has demonstrated,…04 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the European UnionIf the hon. Lady lets me finish the point, she can intervene again. By the Government’s analysis, no deal would shrink the economy by about 10%. The impact would be particularly…04 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the European UnionThe hon. Lady is right, although she is playing with words, on the Treasury analysis. It is not that the economy would shrink 10% from the point where it is now; it would shrink…04 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the European UnionThe hon. Gentleman raises a much broader question. There would not be fees in relation to the customs union, but, as the Government have acknowledged, there clearly will be…04 Feb 2019HANSARDCitizenship RightsI wrote to the Minister immediately after the no-deal paper on citizenship rights was published on 6 December, seeking clarification on points that appeared to reduce rights…24 Jan 2019HANSARD Mental Health: AssessmentI thank the hon. Lady for giving way. Clearly, there is competition for interventions because this is such an important issue. On the question of process, a constituent of mine…22 Jan 2019HANSARD Mental Health: AssessmentWill the hon. Lady give way?22 Jan 2019HANSARDRecognition of Fibromyalgia as a DisabilityI congratulate my hon. Friend on securing the debate. Sara, a young mother in my constituency, has fibromyalgia, triggered by the birth of the youngest of her three children. She…15 Jan 2019HANSARDLeaving the EUThe hon. Gentleman knows that it was the last but one Brexit Secretary, himself an opponent of the Prime Minister’s deal, who agreed to the sequencing of the decisions, and who…14 Jan 2019HANSARDLeaving the EUI will.14 Jan 2019HANSARDLeaving the EUI anticipated that intervention, and the hon. Gentleman will anticipate my response. I said that we would waste no time. I am not going to share with him exactly the way in which…14 Jan 2019