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HANSARD Covid-19: PPE ProcurementMy colleagues on the Public Accounts Committee are at an important evidence session this morning, otherwise I have no doubt that many more of them would be here. The report on PPE…24 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Fifth sitting)It is clearly not for me to comment on the best way for a Department for domestic English affairs to rule on what English courts and English Law Officers can do and must do.…24 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Fifth sitting)I do not know whether the Minister fully understood the significance of my question. We have not tabled the amendments because we think that the power is being given to the…24 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Fifth sitting)The comments I made in relation to the last group of amendments are equally, if not more, applicable here. I appreciate that many members of the Committee would not have thought…24 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Sixth sitting)I beg to move amendment 50, in clause 10, page 11, line 12, leave out paragraph (b) and insert— “(b) for sub-paragraph (2), substitute— (2) Power may only be exercised by virtue…24 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Sixth sitting)The difference, of course, is that any secondary legislation—even if it is done by the affirmative procedure—goes through a Delegated Legislation Committee in which, at best,…24 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Sixth sitting)The Minister referred to domestic secondary legislation. Does she not understand that if a piece of secondary legislation relates exclusively to, for example, a devolved power of…24 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Sixth sitting)I stand to speak in favour of the amendment, although, at best, all it seeks to do is take an entirely unacceptable clause and make it slightly less unacceptable. Clause 11 is…24 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Sixth sitting)rose —24 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Sixth sitting)I oppose the inclusion of clause 11, as I indicated earlier. I will give the Minister credit and assume that she just got confused. She has attempted to justify removing the…24 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Sixth sitting)I cannot speak about what decisions the Scottish Parliament will take after we are independent, but I look forward to seeing that day before any of us are very much older. I am…24 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Sixth sitting)Will the Minister give way?24 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Sixth sitting)Can the Minister explain the difference between restating and amending? At what point does a restatement of a piece of legislation become either an amendment or a completely new…24 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Sixth sitting)I am sorry if the Minister did not understand my question. I am talking not about the political, democratic scrutiny, but about the legal interpretation of restated legislation,…24 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Sixth sitting)I rise to speak to amendments 55 and 56 in my name and that of my hon. Friend the Member for Argyll and Bute. This is an attempt to, once again, restrict the Executive’s power…24 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Sixth sitting)Sorry, but have amendments 55 and 56 been disposed of?24 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Sixth sitting)I had intended to press both to a Division, Sir George, but to save time, and given that the Government Whip already has her great big no vote ready to hang up to make sure that…24 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Sixth sitting)A long time ago now, it seems, I was a member of my local planning authority for a number of years. We used to get dozens and dozens of planning applications for consideration,…24 Nov 2022HANSARDScottish Referendum Legislation: Supreme Court DecisionIf the Secretary of State is so convinced that there is a substantial anti-independence majority among today’s people of Scotland, will he agree to publish in its entirety all the…23 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Fourth sitting)I do not want to detain the Committee much longer, but I cannot support clause 1. It is not just about me not accepting that this Parliament has the right to take my people out of…22 Nov 2022