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HANSARDDraft Postal Packets (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2023I am really pleased that my hon. Friend has brought that up, because it touches on the timing point that colleagues have raised. Understandably, colleagues have asked, “Why is…17 Jul 2023HANSARDDraft Postal Packets (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2023Again, I just remind the Committee that we are dealing with parcel movements here; we are not litigating the entirety of the Windsor framework. As I say, we think it is a really…17 Jul 2023HANSARDDraft Postal Packets (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2023If I may, I will continue. In relation to the overwhelming majority of parcels, there will be no changes. The one instance in which there will be a requirement to go through green…17 Jul 2023HANSARDDraft Postal Packets (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2023I will give way to the hon. Gentleman in a moment; I am still answering my right hon. Friend the Member for Wokingham. Had the Prime Minister not negotiated the new Windsor…17 Jul 2023HANSARDDraft Postal Packets (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2023I will certainly answer the first of the points the hon. Gentleman made in his intervention—I was not able to catch them all, so I very much hope that he will be able to speak in…17 Jul 2023HANSARDDraft Postal Packets (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2023Again, I will try to answer the hon. Gentleman’s intervention as fully as I can. The Windsor framework does not introduce any discrimination against anyone. Businesses do not have…17 Jul 2023HANSARDDraft Postal Packets (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2023Thank you, Mr Pritchard. To reiterate, I beg to move the motion. Before I start, I do recognise the concerns of right hon. and hon. Members and the care with which they have made…17 Jul 2023HANSARDDraft Postal Packets (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2023If I may, I just want to set out the circumstances, because I very much hope that that will help with some of the concerns that have been raised. I know that there is a great deal…17 Jul 2023HANSARDDraft Postal Packets (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2023I must give way to my right hon. Friend the Member for Wokingham, and then I will give way to the hon. Member for North Antrim.17 Jul 2023HANSARDDraft Postal Packets (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2023If I may, I will make a little progress, but I hope that colleagues feel that I have been generous with interventions. The Government need to ensure that the powers of HMRC and…17 Jul 2023HANSARDDraft Postal Packets (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2023I want to ensure that I can provide the list to my hon. Friend now. However, just on that wider subject, the situation that he has described is exactly what we want to try to…17 Jul 2023HANSARDDraft Postal Packets (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2023I genuinely thank my hon. Friend and acknowledge the spirit in which he asked those questions. Historically, the role of postal parcels has not necessarily been defined in…17 Jul 2023HANSARDDraft Postal Packets (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2023If I may, I will address that point, and then I promise I will come to the hon. Member for North Antrim in due course. I am pleased that my right hon. Friend the Member for…17 Jul 2023HANSARDDraft Postal Packets (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2023I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the draft Postal Packets (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2023. May I say what a pleasure it is to serve under your…17 Jul 2023HANSARDDraft Postal Packets (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2023I am just moving the motion—17 Jul 2023HANSARDDraft Postal Packets (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2023I would like to answer the shadow Minister’s questions and then I will happily give way. In terms of HMRC, we are fully confident that we have the staff and resources to meet the…17 Jul 2023HANSARDDraft Postal Packets (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2023I give way to my hon. Friend the Member for Rochford and Southend East.17 Jul 2023HANSARDDraft Postal Packets (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2023We acknowledge the range of views on the framework, but I emphasise that the SI is solely concerned with the powers available to HMRC and Border Force to ensure that the…17 Jul 2023HANSARDDraft Postal Packets (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2023I remind the Committee that we are looking at parcels, not at freight—although of course there are extensions in that regard. Of course, if items are being imported into Great…17 Jul 2023HANSARDDraft Postal Packets (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2023May I finish the point, please? We need to ensure that Northern Ireland is not being used as a back door into the EU. I am coming at this matter not necessarily from the…17 Jul 2023