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was Saudi Arabia is doing as well. Could the Leader of the House please | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
give us the forthcoming business? The business for next week will be | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
as follows, Monday the 30th of January, second reading of the | :00:11. | :00:16. | |
pension schemes Bill Lord's, Tuesday the 31st, second reading of the EU | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
notification of withdrawal Bill, day one. Wednesday the 1st of February, | :00:21. | :00:27. | |
conclusion of second reading of the EU notification of withdrawal Bill. | :00:28. | :00:33. | |
Thursday 2nd of February, select committee statement of the second | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
report of the public illustration committee entitled Will the NHS ever | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
learn, followed by a general debate on the Armed Forces covenant report | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
2016. The subject of that debate having been determined by the | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
backbench committing. 3rd of February private members bills. 6th | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
of February will be as follows, Monday the 6th of February, | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
consideration in committee of the EU notification of withdrawal Bill, day | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
one. Tuesday the seventh, continuation of consideration in | :01:11. | :01:12. | |
committee of the EU notification of withdrawal Bill. Wednesday the | :01:13. | :01:19. | |
eighth, conclusion of consideration in committee of the EU notification | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
of withdrawal Bill. Followed by remaining stages of the EU | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
notification of withdrawal Bill. Thursday ninth, business to be | :01:27. | :01:33. | |
nominated by the backbench business, Nessie. Friday the tenth we will not | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
sit. The business in West Westminster Hall for the sixth and | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
9th of February will be as follows, Monday the sixth, debate on an E | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
petition relating to the domestic ivory market in the UK. Thursday | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
ninth, debate on the sixth report from the science and technology | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
committee on the smart monitoring of electricity and gas. In recent | :01:58. | :02:05. | |
weeks, exchanges at business questions have been notably | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
protracted and it would really help if questions and replies could be | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
pithy, including the exchanges from the front bench. Thank you. Your | :02:15. | :02:23. | |
comments are duly noted. Can I thank the Leader of the House for the | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
business. And could he start by confirming that the 20th of July | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
that will be the date that the house rises for summer recess? In | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
addition, the great repeal Bill will be in the Queen's speech, could you | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
let us know when that will be debated? The British people owe a | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
debt of gratitude to Gina Miller because of her courage the highest | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
court of the land confirmed it is inconsistent with long-standing and | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
fundamental principles that far-reaching constitutional change | :02:55. | :02:56. | |
cannot be brought about by ministerial decision all ministerial | :02:57. | :03:03. | |
action alone but requires an act of Parliament. Can the Leader of the | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
House tellers if the Prime Minister got the memo that Parliament is | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
sovereign? White papers are a tool of participatory democracy not a | :03:11. | :03:17. | |
policy commitment. The honourable member earlier this week along with | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
30 members across the house or asked for the white paper on the Gottman's | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
plans. The Secretary of State had exhumed on Tuesday did not answer. | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
Instead the Prime Minister announced it in response to a question at | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
Prime Minister's Time. Can the leader please confirm whether all | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
policy U-turns will be announced in this way and will we have two | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
negotiate an extension for Prime Minister's Question Time? And could | :03:45. | :03:52. | |
the leader respond to will the white paper and risk assessments be | :03:53. | :03:54. | |
published before the committee stage in the coming two weeks. The Kaufman | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
is clearly does not do process or substance. The Secretary of State | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
had ex who said what we have come up with is a competence of free trade | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
agreement and customs agreement that will deliver the exact same benefits | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
as we have, same outcome different name. We call it the single market, | :04:18. | :04:26. | |
we... Could the Leader of the House in sure there is time to debate this | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
alternative terminology so there is no confusion? And staying in the EU, | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
could the Leader of the House find time to debate the comprehensive | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
trade agreement between EU and Canada? The Secretary State for | :04:41. | :04:42. | |
International development apparently committed the Government to have a | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
vote before the 15th of February and the Secretary of State confirms the | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
chair of the European scrutiny committee that he overwritten | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
Parliamentary scrutiny. The Government can't use the Brexit | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
shambles as an excuse at four policy failures of fiscal irresponsibility | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
so could we have a debate on the NA oh report at HRC policy with | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
concentric. ?23 million was paid as commission to the farm on a | :05:12. | :05:22. | |
commission worth --. ... If the Government can find the 23 million | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
for the commission can any damages the breach-of-contract be set aside, | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
10 million of which could be set aside to cover the costs of child | :05:32. | :05:38. | |
burial, a campaign sake started by the man of the Swansea East. Could | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
we also have debate on the climate change risk assessment? The report | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
highlighted urgent priorities. It said were action was needed on | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
flooding coastal change risks. There are risks from health from high | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
temperatures. Risks to public water supply. No speech, no statement and | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
a twitter account is stark silence. Irresistible to the White House. | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
Could we have a statement from the Secretary of State as many people we | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
need to know what steps will be taken to protect future generations. | :06:15. | :06:24. | |
A five-year sentence has been confirmed, it is not clear what the | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
charges are, and representation must be made. And I'm sure all members | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
will join me in celebrating the consecration of the first woman | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
bishop in Wales! She will now become Bishop of saying Davies. Great | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
little city. Whatever the shape of the bill to be published later | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
today, I would like to remind honourable members that the | :06:48. | :06:55. | |
procedural material is open in the library to help people with the | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
bill. Parliament is indeed sovereign. Mr Speaker, if I can try | :06:59. | :07:06. | |
to reply briefly to the points made by the honourable lady, I join her | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
firstly in welcoming the new Bishop of St Andrews, saying Davies, to her | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
duties, I'm getting carried away by Burns day... Saints Davids. To her | :07:18. | :07:28. | |
duties. And I think that she has obviously taken charge of what must | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
be one of the most picturesque and delightful dioceses in the country. | :07:32. | :07:38. | |
-- St Davids. On the question of misses Ratcliff, one ruble friend | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
the Minister for the Middle East has spoken on Monday this week to | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
express concern about the appeal verdict, this case has been | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
previously raised directly by the Prime Minister and the Foreign | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
Secretary with the president and with the Foreign Minister, our | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
Ambassador will continue to raise this case at every level and at | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
every opportunity in Iran. -- Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. On the | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
question of consent checks, the government has accepted that both | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
provided an acceptably poor service and HMRC must learn lessons from | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
this experience, I hope the house will recognise that the government | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
was right to prioritise the people who actually had tax credit claims | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
that had either been handled wrongly or had not been properly assessed, | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
and HMRC has now dealt with all 181,000 cases taken back from | :08:34. | :08:40. | |
concentric. I shall look at her request for a debate on climate | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
change, but as she will know, this is something to which the government | :08:45. | :08:53. | |
continues to give a higher priority. I cannot as yet give the house | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
details of dates for the summer recess. I would hope to do so as | :09:00. | :09:11. | |
soon as possible. There was a need for the right honourable friend to | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
over right scrutiny procedures because the EU timetable for | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
agreement accelerated faster than expected and was frankly in our | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
interest, a relationship with Canada, support for free trade. And | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
EU relationships with other countries that we agreed, the | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
agreement was something that the UK has been championing since the | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
inception of negotiations. But I did say in my evidence to the scrutiny | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
committee two weeks ago that we would look for an opportunity, | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
possibly to try to link the debate to a broader debate, on | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
International Trade, before much longer. On the broader question | :09:55. | :10:01. | |
about Europe, I have to say to the honourable lady, that I'm sorry that | :10:02. | :10:09. | |
she was a little bit grudging in her response to the government | :10:10. | :10:10. | |
announcement on a white Paper. This was not in this case the government | :10:11. | :10:30. | |
made the announcement in prime ministers questions, with a packed | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
house, packed press gallery, and packed gallery, I thought the | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
honourable lady might have welcomed that, and I hope that it will not be | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
much longer before in prime we will have authoritative statement of what | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
on earth the opposition policy is for which we have been waiting for | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
too long. Would my right honourable friend find time for a debate on | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
regulation finding the operation of... I understand it was very well | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
for some people but it has had an adverse impact on the licensed taxi | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
trade in Southend. -- finding the operation of Uber. I understand that | :11:09. | :11:15. | |
that got my understanding is that drivers whose licences have been | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
revoked by Southend Council who continue working in the town by | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
obtaining a Tfl icings and working for Uber. -- Tfl licence. Those | :11:24. | :11:32. | |
concerns should be raised directly with Tfl. It is the responsibility | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
of local licensing authorities to ensure that not just taxi drivers | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
but private hire drivers are also fit and proper person's to hold that | :11:45. | :11:51. | |
licence. -- fit and proper persons. Thank you for an immaculate silk of | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
grace last night, just to let you know, you are down for it is enter | :11:58. | :12:04. | |
next year! LAUGHTER -- you are down for a tam o' shanter | :12:05. | :12:18. | |
next year. He should have chanced his arm and said we will definitely | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
be staying in the European Union, because first there was a White | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
Paper, then there was no White Paper, act and for! As leader of the | :12:25. | :12:31. | |
house, as the guardian of this house's | :12:32. | :12:43. | |
Can we have a debate about special relationships, particularly how, you | :12:44. | :12:53. | |
are supposed to behave in one of the special relationships. When a United | :12:54. | :13:00. | |
States president says torture is an instrument of policy, when | :13:01. | :13:02. | |
particular religions are picked out for exclusion, when women's rights | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
are set back decades, should this country be not just a little more | :13:08. | :13:18. | |
cautious before accepting this Trumpian embrace. What we now know | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
is that all these Scotland acts, demolition and settlement, they are | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
not worth the ermine they are written on. There is no such thing | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
as permanence as Parliament, what we heard about, what was so convincing | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
about enshrined in law is nothing other than Parliamentary wore full. | :13:40. | :13:46. | |
Week by week, of "Brexit" Britain, is looking like a less attractive | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
prospect for Scotland. We need to know that our views will be | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
respected, or we will have to consider whether we remain in this | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
British Isles. On the important question asked | :13:58. | :14:12. | |
about torture, the Prime Minister said very clearly, the United | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
Kingdom remains resolutely opposed to torture on grounds of moral | :14:17. | :14:24. | |
principle, on grounds of our participation in the UN Convention | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
against torture, and other such international legal incidents, and | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
on the grounds that it does not work because you cannot place much value | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
in information, evidence extracted by means of torture. That continues | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
to be and will continue to be the government position. I have to say, | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
this question about Scotland, in the United Kingdom, it was the Scottish | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
Government's decision to go to the Supreme Court, over the question of | :14:55. | :15:01. | |
consultation with the devolved administrations. It has always been | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
the case, and set down in the three devolution acts, that the United | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
Kingdom's participation in international organisations, | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
membership of international organisations, is a reserved matter, | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
under those devolution settlements. On the other questions about Europe, | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
this house voted overwhelmingly for the referendum Bill to give a | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
decision to the people, it voted overwhelmingly for the Prime | :15:33. | :15:34. | |
Minister to trigger Article 50 by the end of March, and that is what | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
we are seeking to deliver. In reminding colleagues of the need for | :15:41. | :15:43. | |
brevity I also remind them that those that came into the chamber | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
after the debate started should not be standing, it is as simple as | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
that. And the leader of the house confirmed that during the committee | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
stage of drawing the bill, the government temptation will be to | :15:58. | :15:59. | |
resist every and each amendment which seeks to guide the government | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
in legal knots and in Piedmont negotiations. The bill, as | :16:05. | :16:10. | |
honourable members will see when they have studied it, is a short | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
bill which empowers the Prime Minister formally to trigger Article | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
50 and commenced the negotiation, that is all that the bill is about. | :16:21. | :16:28. | |
Since this government came to office, it has sought to avoid | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
government scrutiny to leave the EU, and achieve ends by resorting to the | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
use of the Royal prerogative, bypassing this Parliament. First it | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
lost in the High Court, then it lost in the Supreme Court, and now | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
finally, it has had to concede that Parliament is sovereign by | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
publishing a bill and a White Paper. I was astonished at the amount of | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
time that the leader of the house has given this Parliament to debate | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
it. He's being very quiet about whether the White Paper will be | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
published. Can you give us more time and tell us that he is going to | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
publish the White Paper? I think, if you consider that this is a two | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
clause bill, of which the second clause is dealing only with the | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
extent of the bill, to the United Kingdom, there is plenty of time, | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
including two full days at second reading, for all opinions to be | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
fully expressed. Can we have a debate on the ongoing witchhunt of | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
former service people who served in Northern Ireland during the | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
troubles, this is a travesty of justice, bringing shame on the | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
country, and has to stop. There will be Northern Ireland questions next | :17:42. | :17:44. | |
Wednesday, February one, when my honour above friend may wish to | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
press this point, as he knows, the Secretary of State has already | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
expressed concern about this and it is important that criminal | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
investigations are conducted independently and impartially but | :17:57. | :17:59. | |
service men and women are not singled out in any way. Can I thank | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
the leader of the house for the statement and the confirmation that | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
there will be a backbench debate on the Armed Forces covenant. Earlier | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
this week, backbench committee determined that a debate on is ready | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
settlements in occupied Palestinian territories would be tabled for the | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
next available date, and that will be on the 9th of February. Also | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
hoping that we can table on that date but we need confirmation from | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
the applicant is that it is OK to do so a debate on the governance of | :18:35. | :18:35. | |
football. Can ask that I am --... I am | :18:36. | :18:55. | |
grateful to the honourable gentleman and I try to assist in getting him | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
adequate notice. He is helping the whole of the house. We hear about | :19:02. | :19:13. | |
the excellent work in my constituency. With increasing life | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
expectancy and conditions like dementia on the rise, can we have a | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
debate about how we can support such organisations and cooperation train | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
them and local authorities? He's quite hard right to highlight this | :19:29. | :19:31. | |
point and I would like to congratulate him and those people in | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
Warwickshire who are working so hard to improve those services living | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
with people for -- for people living with dementia and contributing to | :19:42. | :19:50. | |
research. We've seen a doubling of funding for research on dementia. | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
Helping people living with dementia needs families, voluntary | :19:56. | :19:58. | |
organisations and local authority statutory services to cooperate. Can | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
I tell him that just three days to debate the detail of the most | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
important issue facing this country in a generation, the repercussions | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
of which will face generations to come, is completely unacceptable and | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
I vote that every opposition party in this house and everyone who come | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
cares about democracy, will vote against this contempt of Parliament | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
when it comes to the motion. I would say to him that his party supported | :20:27. | :20:36. | |
the referendum Bill inputting the question to the people, and his | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
party supported the timetable of triggering Article 50 by the end of | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
March. The Bill is designed to secure those objectives are met. | :20:47. | :20:52. | |
Does the leader agree that there is actually ample time to debate the | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
Bill, with two days second reading and three days in committee stage. | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
Could he confirmed the precise sitting times on those days? We will | :21:02. | :21:09. | |
try to ensure that there is plenty of time and that adequate protection | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
is given against the risk of statements or urgent questions so | :21:15. | :21:17. | |
that members on all sides have the opportunity to debate these matters | :21:18. | :21:24. | |
fully. It's such a pleasure and surprise to be called before | :21:25. | :21:31. | |
friends! Previously I asked about the budget for a National Audit | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
Office and consequences for Scotland he has still to get back to me. Last | :21:38. | :21:44. | |
week there should be barnacle consequence was for the budget. How | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
much will they get and when will it happen? I would like to go see the | :21:49. | :21:57. | |
response he has had about this but I'll do my best to provide a | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
response. Because the pro Minister has been so clear, I do hope that | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
the white paper won't tell us anything that we don't already know. | :22:08. | :22:15. | |
LAUGHTER All colleagues will have followed | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
the Government's various statements on their approach to the EU exit | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
with the assiduous nurse might honourable friend has shown. We | :22:25. | :22:31. | |
should be clear about that while we wish to provide clear statements it | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
would not be in the national interest to set out in detail our | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
negotiating position. That would be the most foolish step for any | :22:39. | :22:45. | |
Government to take. Should it not be made clear next week for not only | :22:46. | :22:53. | |
does the UK not sanction torture as stated yesterday but will condemn | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
the use of torture by the United States, if waterboarding is brought | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
back? Would it not be absolutely wrong if this country, this | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
Government, became an apologist for a bigoted and wrong-headed US | :23:07. | :23:17. | |
president? There is no question of this country endorsing or supporting | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
torture. The rejection of torture is written into the various | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
international agreements to which we are party and has been integral to | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
numerous statements on this subject by the Prime Minister, the Foreign | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
Secretary and many other members of the Government. Can we have a debate | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
on how Government can do better to ensure the prosperity agenda | :23:38. | :23:40. | |
stemming from defence procurement is used to ensure existing clusters of | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
high-tech businesses in the south-west such as jovial benefit | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
from inward investment by large beneficiaries of governance spending | :23:51. | :23:57. | |
such as Boeing? My honourable friend highlights real opportunities for | :23:58. | :24:00. | |
business to benefit from technology. One of the things this country does | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
need to improve on is how we turn our intent is this and our | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
technological expertise into commercial job creating | :24:13. | :24:14. | |
opportunities and this may be a very good opportunity to seek a debate to | :24:15. | :24:22. | |
pursue this further. Last week I attended the Eastbrook primary | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
school in my constituency. They have a free breakfast club attended by | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
around 70 children every day. This is facilitated by Huddersfield town | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
football club and their charity partners. They support a number of | :24:36. | :24:37. | |
schools in the district. Can we have a debate to discuss how we can | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
encourage or mandate other football clubs to do other types of community | :24:44. | :24:46. | |
initiatives which support the communities? I can't promise a | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
debate in Government time but I applaud the initiative and I think | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
there are many parts of the country in which local sports clubs and | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
other voluntary organisations are supporting their schools | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
incompatible ways. Some of us in this place can talk for Britain, not | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
me, of course. But surely we can hardly complain about getting four | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
days -- five days on to Klaus Bell. This is implementing the will of | :25:18. | :25:27. | |
people. -- two Klaus Bell. Can the leader confirm he will try to avoid | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
statements on any of these days. We will try to, not to have unnecessary | :25:34. | :25:41. | |
statements, but events happen and there is other business that has to | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
be presented to Parliament. That explains why we said that on Tuesday | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
next week the secretary debate will continue until midnight and I'm sure | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
the honourable members will have every opportunity to speak and make | :25:56. | :25:58. | |
all the points they went to make in rats. Doesn't it beggar belief that | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
the Government are so afraid of proper debate that they've only | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
allocated this pathetic three days to the committee of the EU | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
withdrawal Bill, less than we had for the Lisbon Treaty, the Amsterdam | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
Treaty, the single European act, and a tiny fraction of what we had the | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
Maastricht, an eighth of the time we had? Doesn't it speak volumes of the | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
Government's deficiency of their plan that they are trying to gag | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
Parliament in this way? I have more respect than him to suspect this is | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
anything more than synthetic rage. There is no comparison between | :26:37. | :26:43. | |
previous bills that sought to ratify EU treaties which had a direct | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
impact on many different aspects of UK law, and eight to Klaus Bell of | :26:50. | :26:59. | |
which a single clause is a substantive one which is entirely to | :27:00. | :27:02. | |
give authority to the Prime Minister to trigger an Article 50 process and | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
begin a negotiation. Last Friday I had the honour of attending bracken | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
barracks to Kaymer rate the 138th anniversary of a battle that was | :27:15. | :27:22. | |
immortalised in the film, Zulu. Can we have a debate on importance of | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
educating young hit people on the history of our Armed Forces? My | :27:27. | :27:32. | |
honourable friend draws attention to the very deep connection between | :27:33. | :27:40. | |
Brecon and the 24th Rab judgment of foot. I understand the museum is | :27:41. | :27:47. | |
there. I hope the commemoration goes well and he may seek other | :27:48. | :27:52. | |
parliamentary opportunities. The leader would not want to constrain | :27:53. | :27:56. | |
the debate around the Article 50 Bell. Will he therefore be bringing | :27:57. | :28:00. | |
forward with the Bill a money resolution so that the widest | :28:01. | :28:02. | |
possible range of amendments can be tabled? I don't think the Prime | :28:03. | :28:07. | |
Minister can needs any additional resources to trickle after tackle 50 | :28:08. | :28:14. | |
once authority has been given. Will he join me in welcoming today's | :28:15. | :28:18. | |
growth figures. Can we have a debate on the fundamental strength of the | :28:19. | :28:21. | |
UK economy which grew by 2% last year? I would like to think that | :28:22. | :28:28. | |
very good news on growth, which is also good news for jobs and living | :28:29. | :28:32. | |
standards in this country, would be welcomed across the house. It is | :28:33. | :28:35. | |
attributable to industry and workers. The former Conservative | :28:36. | :28:43. | |
Lord Chancellor described Government in this country as an elective disc | :28:44. | :28:48. | |
dictatorship. This Government with their timetabling of the EU | :28:49. | :28:52. | |
withdrawal Bill seems determined to prepare right. Whether he was right | :28:53. | :28:57. | |
or wrong, it seems in the name of two not Christie that people | :28:58. | :29:00. | |
campaigned frostily see you. I repeat the question, why are | :29:01. | :29:07. | |
discovered in trying to muzzle voice of the people in Parliament with | :29:08. | :29:12. | |
their timetabling of this Bill? I think the five days allotted can | :29:13. | :29:17. | |
hardly be described as muzzling and the house voted both for the people | :29:18. | :29:24. | |
to take the decision and for the March timetable for the triggering | :29:25. | :29:29. | |
of Article 50. The passage of the Bill through Parliament is intended | :29:30. | :29:32. | |
to ensure the wish of the house can be delivered. Next week one of my | :29:33. | :29:40. | |
constituents appears in the Supreme Court because the Department for | :29:41. | :29:43. | |
Education wants judges to interpret the word regular in relation to | :29:44. | :29:49. | |
school attendance. If the Government wins the case the law will | :29:50. | :29:52. | |
retrospectively criminalise the actions of tens of thousands of | :29:53. | :29:58. | |
parents. If the law needs to be changed it should surely come before | :29:59. | :30:01. | |
Parliament for proper debate and scrutiny. Could the leader in | :30:02. | :30:06. | |
courage the secretary of state to make a statement on this. My | :30:07. | :30:12. | |
honourable friend I'm sure we'll understand it would not be | :30:13. | :30:15. | |
appropriate for either the secretary of state or me to comment on this | :30:16. | :30:18. | |
case when it is currently before the courts. The Department requested | :30:19. | :30:27. | |
permission to intervene because we need clarity about what the law | :30:28. | :30:34. | |
actually says and means now, before we can take any policy decisions | :30:35. | :30:40. | |
that might be needed. Last week the business Department announced a | :30:41. | :30:49. | |
major review. Yet on Monday of this week the Treasury brought forward a | :30:50. | :30:56. | |
legislative reform order, seeking the formation of a new type of | :30:57. | :30:59. | |
limited partnership with even less controls. Can we have a debate on | :31:00. | :31:05. | |
the use of Dallara owes? Is the honourable gentleman knows, Ella | :31:06. | :31:14. | |
Rose have a genuine purpose in Scotland and have existed through | :31:15. | :31:18. | |
long time in Scottish law. As he also says there have been serious | :31:19. | :31:23. | |
allegations and evidence that this status has been abused and that is | :31:24. | :31:29. | |
why the enquiry is taking place. If the enquiry concludes there is a | :31:30. | :31:33. | |
need for changes in the law then the Government want to consider those | :31:34. | :31:37. | |
quickly but carefully. We are hearing from Labour's backbenches | :31:38. | :31:46. | |
that they would seek to as oppose the Government. Has he had any | :31:47. | :31:50. | |
representations from labours front bench that they will seek to oppose | :31:51. | :31:57. | |
the Government 's programme motion? It is not for me to disclose on the | :31:58. | :32:04. | |
floor of the house. But I think there have been public, numerous and | :32:05. | :32:14. | |
often contradictory about the plans they can to take. Hull has had | :32:15. | :32:20. | |
nearly 350,000 people attending in the last week. I hope you might be | :32:21. | :32:26. | |
able to attend in the course of 2017. Many of those visitors | :32:27. | :32:29. | |
actually came through the railway station and imagine my surprise when | :32:30. | :32:33. | |
I learned that trans-Pennine who operate the railway station and | :32:34. | :32:36. | |
decided to close the waiting room and toilets at 7pm because of | :32:37. | :32:43. | |
anti-social behaviour. After the three hole and peas have made | :32:44. | :32:45. | |
representations they said keep them open till nine. But only if there is | :32:46. | :32:50. | |
no more anti-social behaviour. Could we please have a debate about when | :32:51. | :32:56. | |
we decided jobs could dictate the facilities passengers and general | :32:57. | :33:06. | |
maps of the politic -- public? First of all, I would like to congratulate | :33:07. | :33:12. | |
the city of Hull on their first few weeks as city of culture and I hope | :33:13. | :33:17. | |
many honourable ambers on all sides are able to take the opportunity to | :33:18. | :33:21. | |
go to hold during the course of this year. The last time I went, I do | :33:22. | :33:28. | |
remember visiting City Hall and being hugely impressed I the | :33:29. | :33:31. | |
architecture and the sense of civic pride. On the question of | :33:32. | :33:37. | |
anti-social behaviour that she raised, I have a lot of sympathy | :33:38. | :33:41. | |
with what she says. I would hope that the franchise holder, local | :33:42. | :33:48. | |
police, local authority, can work together to find an effective | :33:49. | :33:50. | |
solution that means these facilities can remain open. | :33:51. | :33:56. | |
I welcome the government commitment to publishing the White Paper this | :33:57. | :34:03. | |
week, I thank my friend for his work in enabling this to happen, but can | :34:04. | :34:06. | |
he outlined discussions he has had to enable this, and also on the | :34:07. | :34:11. | |
timescale that my constituent views can be heard in Parliamentary time. | :34:12. | :34:15. | |
There will be fiercely opportunities to debate the particular bill that | :34:16. | :34:22. | |
has been published today. Pretty narrow in scope but there will be | :34:23. | :34:26. | |
the repeal bill, which the government has said we will | :34:27. | :34:38. | |
introduce there will continue to be various debates on aspects of | :34:39. | :34:49. | |
departure from the European Union. Notwithstanding the importance of | :34:50. | :34:53. | |
issues like "Brexit", will the leader of the house consider how we | :34:54. | :34:59. | |
ensure that other legislation receives the prominence it deserves, | :35:00. | :35:04. | |
yesterday was an historic day for the parliament, when the gender pay | :35:05. | :35:08. | |
gap red regulations were passed, forcing large companies with more | :35:09. | :35:17. | |
than 250 employees to publish gender pay gap information. Very happy to | :35:18. | :35:24. | |
give consideration to that because I think that we will all wish to see | :35:25. | :35:31. | |
much greater public knowledge of and understanding of things that go on | :35:32. | :35:35. | |
in our Parliament that perhaps you not grab the headlines and do not | :35:36. | :35:44. | |
happen at when prime time. It does demand considerable consensus among | :35:45. | :35:52. | |
the house. Last week, a gas issue meant the town was disconnected from | :35:53. | :35:54. | |
the network for a considerable will the leader of the | :35:55. | :36:08. | |
house join me in thanking all efforts on the ground, and can we | :36:09. | :36:13. | |
have AIDS debate next week on emergency planning and getting it | :36:14. | :36:19. | |
right. -- can we have a debate. Given the other business we have, I | :36:20. | :36:24. | |
cannot promise a debate, but can we unhesitatingly both thank and | :36:25. | :36:28. | |
congratulate the statutory services and individual constituents in | :36:29. | :36:37. | |
Rafael what they managed it. Can we have a statement on funding cuts to | :36:38. | :36:41. | |
the equalities and human rights commission, with hate crime on the | :36:42. | :36:46. | |
increase, does the leader of the house appreciate that many | :36:47. | :36:48. | |
honourable members think these cuts send their own message to women, the | :36:49. | :36:56. | |
BAME community and those that suffer from disabilities. Because of the | :36:57. | :36:59. | |
need to bring public finances under control, all parts of the public | :37:00. | :37:03. | |
sector are facing difficult decisions but I can point the | :37:04. | :37:10. | |
honourable gentleman towards questions on women's equality on | :37:11. | :37:17. | |
February two. The leader of the house and I were both elected in | :37:18. | :37:22. | |
1992. And he will recall the many days that we spent on the Maastricht | :37:23. | :37:31. | |
Treaty. Can you tell the house how much consideration he has given to | :37:32. | :37:38. | |
previous debates on these matters, not just in 1992 but in the 1970s, | :37:39. | :37:45. | |
when we joined the European Union, and also, what discussions and | :37:46. | :37:47. | |
considerations were given at that time to the opposition parties and | :37:48. | :37:51. | |
what they said then compared to what they are saying now? If I am honest, | :37:52. | :38:01. | |
I think that any of us who came in in 1992 would probably not look back | :38:02. | :38:05. | |
at the debates on the Maastricht Treaty as the greatest moment of | :38:06. | :38:11. | |
glory for the House of Commons. And it is not something that I think we | :38:12. | :38:16. | |
necessarily want to put more recently arrived colleagues through! | :38:17. | :38:20. | |
I think that given the very narrow scope of the bill that is being | :38:21. | :38:24. | |
published today, that the five days that we have announced and the six | :38:25. | :38:31. | |
substantial amounts of additional time, particularly on second | :38:32. | :38:34. | |
reading, that we are providing four, means that Parliament has plenty of | :38:35. | :38:38. | |
opportunities to have a debate on this will stop in full. | :38:39. | :39:01. | |
When this house agreed we had not discussed the issue of women's state | :39:02. | :39:07. | |
pension and equality, will this government bring forward a debate | :39:08. | :39:11. | |
and make sure it bring forward proposals that deal with the women | :39:12. | :39:16. | |
that are suffering. The last government the coalition did commit | :39:17. | :39:20. | |
over ?1 billion to lessen the impact on those who were worst affected by | :39:21. | :39:24. | |
the change in pension age, no one will see their pension age change by | :39:25. | :39:30. | |
more than 18 months. Those who face the largest increase in the state | :39:31. | :39:33. | |
pension age released at least seven years notice of that. We have also | :39:34. | :39:38. | |
got to be realistic about the fact that people are living longer and if | :39:39. | :39:42. | |
we are going to equalise the state pension age, then we do need to | :39:43. | :39:48. | |
raise the state pension age for both men and four women, and the cost of | :39:49. | :39:52. | |
reversing the 2011 at will be ?30 billion. -- 2011 act. In Gwent, the | :39:53. | :40:04. | |
air is fresh and pure, but the air in London is putrid, can we have a | :40:05. | :40:13. | |
statement on air quality and the impact of diesel emissions, the | :40:14. | :40:15. | |
government needs to better protect the public health of its people. | :40:16. | :40:23. | |
Improving air quality is a priority for the government and for my right | :40:24. | :40:30. | |
honourable friend the Secretary of State for environment in particular, | :40:31. | :40:32. | |
we follow best available evidence but we are ready to update those if | :40:33. | :40:36. | |
necessary, and we have been at the forefront in Europe to make sure we | :40:37. | :40:42. | |
can see more accurate real world emissions testing of cars in | :40:43. | :40:44. | |
particular. Can we have a debate on the Mersey | :40:45. | :41:15. | |
crossing so that the government Canuks blame why they have broken | :41:16. | :41:19. | |
promises to my constituents. I cannot promise a debate in the | :41:20. | :41:24. | |
meantime. -- so that the government can explain. I will always ask the | :41:25. | :41:36. | |
relevant Minister to explain. 40 branches of banks are being closed, | :41:37. | :41:43. | |
200 jobs will be lost. My constituents will be left without a | :41:44. | :41:49. | |
single local bank branch. We can send a strong signal to banks, | :41:50. | :41:52. | |
including Clydesdale, about the negative impact this closure will | :41:53. | :41:56. | |
have on local economies and local communities. I think that this is | :41:57. | :42:02. | |
probable is something you want to raise by way of an adjournment | :42:03. | :42:04. | |
debate or backbench debate on the issue, more generically, but I quite | :42:05. | :42:10. | |
understand the plight of some of her constituents, it is incumbent upon | :42:11. | :42:16. | |
the big retail banks to reflect very carefully, in particular before | :42:17. | :42:19. | |
closing the last banking outlet in a particular community. Will the | :42:20. | :42:25. | |
leader of the house do me a favour and stop suggesting that those who | :42:26. | :42:28. | |
are on this side of the house and the other side of the house they | :42:29. | :42:32. | |
believe passionately in the scrutiny of this European built being | :42:33. | :42:36. | |
thorough, would he stop suggesting that we are trying to overturn the | :42:37. | :42:40. | |
popular vote on the referendum. That is not the case, new nose it is not | :42:41. | :42:46. | |
the case, please be honest about it! This house, as well as voting for | :42:47. | :42:52. | |
the referendum, also voted for the Prime Minister to trigger Article | :42:53. | :43:00. | |
50, before the end of March, 2017. Because of the Supreme Court | :43:01. | :43:05. | |
judgment, it is necessary for a bill to go through all its legislative | :43:06. | :43:09. | |
stages in both houses, for the wish of the house, in respect of the | :43:10. | :43:13. | |
timetable to be met. I believe that the five days we have allotted will | :43:14. | :43:17. | |
give ample opportunity for the narrow issue to be adequately | :43:18. | :43:25. | |
debated. And we have a ministerial statement on HS2 in South Yorkshire, | :43:26. | :43:31. | |
they went out for consultation, plenty of support in South Yorkshire | :43:32. | :43:34. | |
but not a consensus and consequently they are currently out thought by | :43:35. | :43:40. | |
the MHC Easton Road re-routed through South Yorkshire, we have | :43:41. | :43:43. | |
learned this week that they are now looking at putting a parkway station | :43:44. | :43:48. | |
on possibly eight hearts of that re-route but none of them are for | :43:49. | :43:51. | |
public consultation now. Could we make sure that we have good return | :43:52. | :43:56. | |
for public money, they are wasting money hand over fist! What I would | :43:57. | :44:06. | |
suggest is that I report to the Minister with direct responsibility | :44:07. | :44:15. | |
for HS2, to, like you, Mr Speaker, I can speak with personal constituency | :44:16. | :44:21. | |
experience of wrestling with HS2, and it is important that the | :44:22. | :44:24. | |
honourable gentleman and his constituents get clear answers and | :44:25. | :44:29. | |
are able to make strong representations. In January last | :44:30. | :44:33. | |
year, a group of MPs invited trade union leaders to address a meeting | :44:34. | :44:36. | |
in Parliament and it has since emerged that meeting was equally | :44:37. | :44:43. | |
recorded. Given that MPs of all parties hold meetings on the | :44:44. | :44:46. | |
parliamentary estate, I would be grateful if the leader of the house | :44:47. | :44:49. | |
could clarify rules on third parties recording meetings without consent | :44:50. | :44:53. | |
and give me his view on whether those rules may have been breached? | :44:54. | :44:58. | |
I'm very concerned by what has been said, if you would like to let me | :44:59. | :45:01. | |
have full details, then I will investigate this as quickly as | :45:02. | :45:07. | |
possible. The Prime Minister has indicated that Parliament will vote | :45:08. | :45:09. | |
on the terms of a final "Brexit" deal, what if there is no deal, will | :45:10. | :45:13. | |
there be a reference back to this house, will there be a vote about | :45:14. | :45:19. | |
whether we leave the EU on no terms? The decision to leave the EU was | :45:20. | :45:29. | |
taken by the referendum. The house knows where I stood, as Democrats we | :45:30. | :45:34. | |
have two except the outcome of the vote, but if there is no deal under | :45:35. | :45:40. | |
the terms, specified in article 50, then, as the Prime Minister said | :45:41. | :45:44. | |
yesterday, we have to fall back on other arrangements. The SNP will | :45:45. | :45:53. | |
certainly be the opposing quite a disgraceful motion, but will the | :45:54. | :45:59. | |
White Paper, giving the government's position, organising irrevocable | :46:00. | :46:03. | |
step to the greatest constitutional change in this country for 50 years, | :46:04. | :46:07. | |
been published before the committee stage of the bill, and if not, why | :46:08. | :46:13. | |
not? I said to the house a few moments ago, I hope that we can | :46:14. | :46:19. | |
publish the White Paper, as soon as possible, and the other point I | :46:20. | :46:22. | |
would make to the right honourable gentleman, is that the authorisation | :46:23. | :46:28. | |
for our departure from the European Union was given by a referendum of | :46:29. | :46:32. | |
all people of the United Kingdom, some of us like that decision, some | :46:33. | :46:37. | |
do not, but it was a democratic decision that the electorate was | :46:38. | :46:42. | |
entitled to take. 22 weeks, still no date for the restoration and renewal | :46:43. | :46:46. | |
debate, as the leader of the house turned into Oscar Wilde, who said, | :46:47. | :46:50. | |
never put off till tomorrow what could possibly be done the day | :46:51. | :46:55. | |
after, or Ellen Degeneres, who said, don't procrastinate, put it! -- put | :46:56. | :47:01. | |
it off. Or does he seriously think that we can carry on like this and | :47:02. | :47:04. | |
hope that somehow we will muddle through. He says that we will have a | :47:05. | :47:11. | |
debate Sunday, but Sunday is not a day of the week. The honourable | :47:12. | :47:15. | |
gentleman made his point as forcefully now as he did during his | :47:16. | :47:17. | |
debate in Westminster Hall, early this week. He will know, from the | :47:18. | :47:24. | |
business that faces the next two weeks, that it has not been possible | :47:25. | :47:27. | |
to schedule the debate on restoration and renewal then, I hope | :47:28. | :47:31. | |
that we will be able to identify a date as soon as possible. The leader | :47:32. | :47:40. | |
of the house will be aware of the controversy in Northern Ireland | :47:41. | :47:42. | |
surrounding the renewable heat initiative and the millions lost, a | :47:43. | :47:46. | |
colleague of mine sought information from Whitehall departments, under | :47:47. | :47:49. | |
freedom of information, received a letter this week from both, one | :47:50. | :47:55. | |
month after asking for the information. Saying that there was | :47:56. | :47:58. | |
too much work needed to get that information, so he has put the | :47:59. | :48:02. | |
questions in again. Can we guarantee from the leader of the house that no | :48:03. | :48:06. | |
politics will be played here and that the information will be found | :48:07. | :48:14. | |
and will come out? The deadlines set under the Freedom of Information Act | :48:15. | :48:21. | |
are a matter of law. Not a matter of discretion. For ministers or | :48:22. | :48:25. | |
officials. Clearly, ministers here do not have any direct authority | :48:26. | :48:32. | |
over the devolved departments within Northern Ireland. But I would | :48:33. | :48:39. | |
certainly hope that any Whitehall department would respond well within | :48:40. | :48:43. | |
the time frame, specified within the Freedom of information legislation. | :48:44. | :48:52. | |
We all wish the Prime Minister well in her work to increase exports. Is | :48:53. | :48:59. | |
it time for a debate about the relationship between this country | :49:00. | :49:03. | |
and a president who since he's in your duration has behaves like a | :49:04. | :49:10. | |
petulant try child out to destroy the achievements of his | :49:11. | :49:13. | |
predecessors. A new region is promised between Trump and the UK. | :49:14. | :49:17. | |
Is there a danger that this will be a new dark age? Mr Trump has been | :49:18. | :49:25. | |
elected by the people of the United States under their democratic | :49:26. | :49:31. | |
constitution. And under Conservative and Labour governments alike it has | :49:32. | :49:37. | |
rightly been a national priority in terms of our security interests, | :49:38. | :49:42. | |
geopolitical interest, interesting prosperity and trade, to forge as | :49:43. | :49:48. | |
close as possible a partnership with and understanding of a new American | :49:49. | :49:52. | |
administration. That has to be in the interests of the people we | :49:53. | :49:55. | |
represent and that is what the Prime Minister will be seeking to do in | :49:56. | :50:02. | |
Washington. Further to the point made by my honourable friend, the | :50:03. | :50:05. | |
member for Chester, can we have an urgent debate discuss the Government | :50:06. | :50:10. | |
Ponte's relating on its promise to provide special help for small | :50:11. | :50:16. | |
businesses when they knew... That is the second time they've written I | :50:17. | :50:22. | |
reneges on something. That decision was announced by the then Chancellor | :50:23. | :50:30. | |
on the 23rd of April 2000 15. Can we have an urgent debate to find out | :50:31. | :50:33. | |
again by the Government is refusing to honour its commitments? There are | :50:34. | :50:39. | |
questions the Secretary of State for business on Tuesday the 31st which | :50:40. | :50:43. | |
will provide you with an opportunity. If I may I will look | :50:44. | :50:48. | |
into the pointy raises a long sized that raised by his honourable | :50:49. | :50:55. | |
friend. Given the decline and the abuse of civil liberties and human | :50:56. | :51:00. | |
rights in Malaysia over the last few months, in particular the arrests, | :51:01. | :51:14. | |
would the leader agreed to a statement or better still a debate | :51:15. | :51:23. | |
on this matter? As so often, he is pursuing his interest in human | :51:24. | :51:28. | |
rights, I can't offer an immediate statement in Government time but I | :51:29. | :51:30. | |
will ask the appropriate minister to write to you. Gwent music is a local | :51:31. | :51:38. | |
authority music service that provides opportunities to young | :51:39. | :51:42. | |
people in my cup constituency, including my own daughter, can we | :51:43. | :51:46. | |
have a debate on the importance of affordable music lessons in our | :51:47. | :51:53. | |
schools across the country? I recognise and sympathise with the | :51:54. | :52:00. | |
underlying point you are making. This will turn on decisions not just | :52:01. | :52:04. | |
by the United Kingdom Government but by the Welsh Government and Welsh | :52:05. | :52:12. | |
assembly, by local authorities and by individual schools about their | :52:13. | :52:15. | |
priorities. But I would hope ways can continue to be found to be | :52:16. | :52:20. | |
maintaining those standards of excellence for war people wanting to | :52:21. | :52:28. | |
pursue music. Can he give us an absolute guarantee that the | :52:29. | :52:31. | |
unelected House of Lords will not have more time to debate the Brexit | :52:32. | :52:36. | |
Article 50 Bill than the elected House of Commons? The House of | :52:37. | :52:47. | |
Commons will have the final say, as an practically all legislation. As | :52:48. | :52:51. | |
is always the case, the House of Lords has its own procedures and it | :52:52. | :52:54. | |
is not in the gift of the Government to set down what times will debate | :52:55. | :52:59. | |
are going to be in the House of Lords on any Bill. And the prize the | :53:00. | :53:12. | |
patients goes to Jeff Smith! -- patience. And we wish him a happy | :53:13. | :53:19. | |
birthday. Thank you. It is quite right other Parliamentary business | :53:20. | :53:22. | |
should be shelved in the next couple of weeks to debate Article 50, | :53:23. | :53:26. | |
including the bus services Bill. In Manchester we have been demanding | :53:27. | :53:29. | |
London style bus franchising powers the many years. We can wait a little | :53:30. | :53:33. | |
longer but can I encourage the leader to reschedule the bus | :53:34. | :53:37. | |
services Bill as soon as possible after the recess so Manchester can | :53:38. | :53:40. | |
properly manage our transport network? This may be an inadequate | :53:41. | :53:48. | |
birthday present, but I will do my best to deliver on what you want. | :53:49. | :53:57. | |
Point of order. I am glad the Brexit secretary is here to his moment of | :53:58. | :54:02. | |
history. If I could just detain him for a second, he used | :54:03. | :54:03. |