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HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Third sitting)My recollection, which may help the hon. Member on his first point, is that Angus Robertson said they had not had a chance to begin to quantify the amount of legislation. He was…22 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Third sitting)The Minister has tried heroically but unsuccessfully, I am afraid, to argue that this arbitrary deadline will not place enormous strain on a civil service that is already under…22 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Third sitting)I put it to the Minister that rejecting the amendment very much affects the devolution settlement. It means that the priorities on which the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Ireland…22 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Third sitting)rose—22 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Third sitting)I have a great deal of sympathy with amendment 90, but amendment 91 seems to be telling the devolved Administrations how to do their job. Does the hon. Gentleman not think that if…22 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Third sitting)I note that the hon. Gentleman’s incredulity is almost as great as mine with respect to a Minister who a minute ago said that we can deal properly with 4,000 bits of legislation…22 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Fourth sitting)I am possibly anticipating what will be said later, but for clarification will the hon. Member confirm that retaining all this EU legislation in domestic law does not in any way…22 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Fourth sitting)I may be mistaken, but I distinctly remember being a member of the European Scrutiny Committee in this place for several years. The explicit job of that Committee was to…22 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Fourth sitting)Will the Minister give way?22 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Third sitting)Like my hon. Friend, I have been puzzling over why the Government are so determined to die in a ditch over this 2023 date. Does he think it is because instead of admitting to the…22 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Fourth sitting)I will ask question that the Minister chose not to hear. The Bill runs to 37 pages, and we do not know how long the Government have taken to put it together, but we know that they…22 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 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Fourth sitting)The Government have admitted that, even before we decide on clause 1, three important parts of what the Minister described as a fundamentally important clause need to be amended,…22 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Fourth sitting)Before the comments from the hon. Member for Walthamstow, the Minister thought she was winning the argument. She said that there was nothing unusual in legislation having to be…22 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Fourth sitting)The Minister’s clarification in response to my hon. Friend the Member for Argyll and Bute’s questions has been about as clear as mud. On the basis of that response, I sincerely…22 Nov 2022HANSARDAutumn Statement ResolutionsAs I think everyone on these Benches will agree, the Budget we have just had presented to us means that the Union is anything but great. Will the Minister tell my constituents one…21 Nov 2022HANSARDAutumn Statement ResolutionsWill the Minister give way?21 Nov 2022HANSARDAutumn Statement ResolutionsThe job conditionality that the Minister has just referred to has been welcomed in certain sections of the right-wing press, whose agenda says that the only reason somebody is not…21 Nov 2022HANSARDAutumn Statement ResolutionsThe Office for Budget Responsibility and the document that accompanies the Budget tell us that it was asked to prepare forecasts six times in six weeks for a succession of…21 Nov 2022HANSARD Autumn StatementFar the best way to take people out of poverty is to pay them a decent wage so that they never get into poverty. I see that the Chancellor is nodding. Why has the nodding…17 Nov 2022