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HANSARD Northern Ireland ProtocolI thank my hon. Friend for his warm words of support and assure him that the Foreign Secretary, in particular, is intensely engaged with his counterparts in Spain to try to find a…27 Feb 2023HANSARD Northern Ireland ProtocolI thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention and also for the engagement that he has had with me and the Secretary of State. It is good to talk. There has been plenty of that,…27 Feb 2023HANSARD Northern Ireland ProtocolI pay tribute to my right hon. Friend for her work but also for her comments just now, which were powerful and moving. She is right that we must look forward, and we will not let…27 Feb 2023HANSARD Northern Ireland ProtocolI join the hon. Gentleman in paying tribute to my hon. Friend the Minister of State. He is absolutely right to shower praise on him. Not only has my hon. Friend been instrumental…27 Feb 2023HANSARD Northern Ireland ProtocolI thank my right hon. and learned Friend for his chairmanship of the partnership from our side. He and they do valuable work, and I have been grateful—as have the Secretaries of…27 Feb 2023HANSARD Northern Ireland ProtocolMy hon. Friend is absolutely right, and it is something that I know the Minister of State, Northern Ireland Office, my hon. Friend the Member for Wycombe is specifically focused…27 Feb 2023HANSARD Northern Ireland ProtocolI hope that the hon. Gentleman takes the time to study the deal in detail, and that he will see, after he has done that, that it delivers against the objectives that I set out,…27 Feb 2023HANSARD Northern Ireland ProtocolI thank my right hon. Friend for his support and for the advice that he has provided to me and the team. This is obviously an area that he knows well from his own experience, and…27 Feb 2023HANSARD Northern Ireland ProtocolMy right hon. and learned Friend makes an excellent point. He will remember that the Government had to drop from the UKIM Bill certain provisions guaranteeing unfettered access…27 Feb 2023HANSARD Northern Ireland ProtocolThe UK is and will remain a member of the ECHR. Today’s agreement is about the Belfast/Good Friday agreement—the hon. Lady was right to highlight it—and restoring the balance in…27 Feb 2023HANSARD Northern Ireland ProtocolI thank my right hon. Friend for his support, which means a lot to me because the topic of Brexit is something that he has thought and done a lot about over the years. He is…27 Feb 2023HANSARD Northern Ireland ProtocolThat is exactly the point of the Stormont brake. It is based on the petition of concern mechanism—a Good Friday agreement institution—and requires 30 MLAs from two parties. If it…27 Feb 2023HANSARD Northern Ireland ProtocolI thank the hon. Lady for her support and for the way in which she and her colleague the Member for Foyle (Colum Eastwood) have engaged with me and the Secretary of State over…27 Feb 2023HANSARD Northern Ireland ProtocolI thank my right hon. Friend for his support and also for his invaluable advice over the past few weeks. I agree with him. He is right to highlight illegal migration in…27 Feb 2023HANSARD Northern Ireland ProtocolI join the hon. Gentleman in supporting our farmers, whether in Northern Ireland or, indeed, in Yorkshire. Actually, the agreement we have reached on veterinary medicines lasts…27 Feb 2023HANSARD Northern Ireland ProtocolGoing forward, when the Executive are up and running, as I hope very much they will be, it will be for the Assembly in Northern Ireland to decide. For those goods rules in annex…27 Feb 2023HANSARD Northern Ireland ProtocolThis is about ensuring the free flow of goods within our United Kingdom; that is what the green lane is there to do. It was always going to be the case after we left the European…27 Feb 2023HANSARD Northern Ireland ProtocolThe Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill is passing separately to these arrangements, but these arrangements provide for the appropriate sovereignty in Northern Ireland…27 Feb 2023HANSARD Northern Ireland ProtocolI thank my right hon. Friend for his comments. I am pleased that we were able to publish all the documentation. I know that that was important not just to him and to my hon.…27 Feb 2023HANSARD Northern Ireland ProtocolI thank my right hon. Friend particularly for her support given her long-standing credentials in this area and the passion with which she believes in our Union. I am grateful to…27 Feb 2023