Live Exiting the European Union Questions House of Commons

Welcome to BBC Parliament's live

coverage of the House of Commons. In

one hour's time, Plaid Cymru will

ask a question about the situation

in Catalonia. Andrea Leadsom will

announce upcoming business in the

chamber and take questions. The

Northern Ireland Secretary will

update MPs on the latest round of

talks about power-sharing. The

Justice Secretary will then make a

statement on prison sentencing. The

main business is two busy -- debates

tabled by the Backbench Business

Committee, the first concerns Calais

and their arrival of child migrants

in Europe, that is followed by a

debate on violence and sexual

harassment in schools. Join me at

11pm for a round-up, but first we

have questions to the Secretary of

State for exiting the EU, and his

team of ministers.

Order, order. Questions for the

Secretary of State for exiting the

European Union.

We have made a lot of progress

through five rounds of negotiations,

and we are now within touching

distance of an agreement on

citizens' rights. I am confident we

can conclude discussions on

citizens' rights in the forthcoming

weeks.

Universities UK and Scotland have

expressed concerns about accessing

skilled labour after Brexit. Would

buy right honourable friend agree

that the mutual recognition of

professional qualifications should

be a priority?

Our science and

research paper sets out the

importance of continuing to meet the

talent needs of our country, and we

have set out a positive approach to

the mutual recognition of

professional qualifications. We

would like to see broader Dafydd --

definitions for the professionals.

It is our offer more generous than

the other side? -- is our offer.

I think my right honourable friend

is correct to carry that, in areas

such as voting rights which we would

afford to EU citizens in the UK

which we would like to see

reciprocated across the EU.

End the University has 25% of their

senior academic staff as EU

nationals. What a saying to such

institutions, they need that staff

to compete as one of the world's

leading universities?

I have met with them to discuss this

issue, and I recognise the benefit

they receive from EU nationals

working at the University, and from

nationals across the world who

contribute to their research. We

have set out, they have welcomed,

and we will continue to work closely

with the university 's sector.

EU nationals living in my

constituency, who are seeking

permanent residency are being

advised that currently there is no

process, and they would have to wait

for a letter telling them to leave

the country, which unsurprisingly

causes a great deal of anxiety and

distress. Is that the official

advice?

The official advice is that the Home

Office is working on a process to

ensure that settled status can be

achieved straightforwardly. There is

no need to apply for that status as

yet for anybody, because it is very

clear that EU nationals in the UK

have the right to be here. What

we're talking about is a process so

that when the legal order changes,

as the Prime Minister says, we want

them to stay and we want that

process to be made as

straightforward as possible.

Would my honourable friend not agree

it is not only EU citizens in this

country who need reassurance, it is

also the very large number of

British citizens living in a host of

EU countries, that did the same

reassurance? When do they expect to

conclude this agreement?

It is very important we work through

the detail of this agreement to show

how it works on both sides, and that

it can deliver for both EU citizens

living in the UK and vice versa.

These talks have been constructive,

and we do believe we are in touching

distance of a full agreement.

Last night, this House unanimously

passed a binding motion requiring

the Government to provide 58

sectoral impact assessments to the

Brexit subcommittee, non-EQ UK

nationals work in many of those 58

sectors, and you, Mr Speaker,

indicated it did not need to be

deliberated over for a long time.

When will the papers be handed over?

The right honourable gentleman was

present for the whole of yesterday's

debate, and I said we would this --

respond appropriately, and we will

do as soon as conceivable.

As soon as conceivable, I would hope

means by the end of the week, Mr

Speaker, and certainly before this

House goes into recess. I think that

was the period we were discussing

last night. But the motion is clear,

it is the impact assessments that

must be provided, not redacted

copies, the assessments. The

Government could have amended the

motion, it chose not to. Can now be

confirmed but the full copies will

be handed over, and it would then be

for the Brexit Select Committee to

decide to what extent and in what

form the assessments are published?

I would point out that the first use

of the word "Reductions" came from

him speaking for the opposition. But

I would say -- redaction is. But we

take very seriously the motion of

Parliament, the Secretary of State

has already spoken to the chairman

of the Select Committee for exiting,

and we will be discussing this

further with him in due course.

With permission, I will answer

questions two, 13, 19 together.

The Government has firmly committed

to workers' rights and extending

them when that is the right choice

for the UK. The European Union

withdrawal Bill will ensure that

workers' rights will continue to be

available in UK law after we have

left the EU. We do not need however

to be part of the EU to have strong

protection for workers. The UK

already will be on minimum standards

in a large tumbler of areas.

The trade union act has shown us

differently. The UK has some of the

most restrictive trade union rights

and freedoms in the Western world,

and even these could be compromised

post-withdrawal. Can you give a

guarantee that my constituents will

have as a minimum the same, if not

more, workers' rights when we have

left the EU?

Yes, I can. Her constituency voted

overwhelmingly to eat -- leave the

EU. It did that with open eyes. This

assertion but somehow our trade

union rights, more importantly our

employment law rights, are less good

than the rest of the EU, is simply

untrue. My first meeting as

Secretary of State was with the

General Secretary of the trade union

Council, because I had been

co-operating with her over trade

union law just a few months before.

If she wants a single test, the

single test of employment protection

in the UK versus the EU, the most

fundamental right is a right to

safety at work. We have one of the

best, best records in the EU, for

safety at work, much better than

Germany, Italy, nearly all the

European countries.

I'm very grateful to the Secretary

of State for saying he would intend

to extend workers' rights when it

was like to do so. But I have got a

great concern that some in his

Conservative Party would see it as

an opportunity to further deregulate

rights of our citizens at work.

Would he be looking towards doing

away with employment tribunal fees,

which prevent young workers,

particularly women, from taking

sexual harassment claims against

their own employers?

The first thing to say is I think in

the first three speeches are made

after we had taken this job, -- I

had taken this job, I made it clear

we were not going to use the

departure from EU as a way of

reducing employment rights. But the

Prime Minister has, independent of

this process, instigated the Matthew

Taylor review, to report back on

employment rights for security, pay,

rights, progression, training,

representation, opportunities for

underrepresented group, and new

business models in the gig economy.

The Prime Minister is actually

intended to improve on employment

rights, not reduce them.

I welcome the fact that the

Secretary of State has said that he

wants to extend workers' rights.

With that in mind, with the

Government look at the hard work

done by the Member for Great

Grimsby, whose Private Members' Bill

has sought to enshrine workers'

rights immediately into UK law?

Let me say this to the honourable

lady. The nature of the British

constitution is that Parliament

always is the last to decide, you

can entrench anything in British law

in perpetuity. So what we would be

doing is, as a party, as a

Government run up is seeking to

extend workers' rights, and as a

parliament it will be in our control

to do that.

The European Charter of rights

contains protections for example in

equality and children's rights not

contained in the European Convention

on human rights. Can the Secretary

of State give us a commitment that

these rights will be protected as we

leave the EU?

I thank my honourable friend for

raising the point. As said all

along, from the beginning, in fact

from the White Paper, that presented

what was then the repeal Bill, now

the withdrawal Bill, was that we

believe all the rights under --

enjoyed under the charter, are

rights that come either from

European Union law or from the

agency are writes British domestic

rights, or from EU law, which we are

to carry forward. I said I think to

the Shadow Secretary of State at the

time, but if there were any rights

missed, we would seek to put them

back. So that is what we are going

to do. And of course we will discuss

this at great length in the

committee, and at report stage of

that Bill. And my undertaking to her

is that we will preserve rights.

I know my right honourable friend

takes workers' rights seriously,

however, one white which British

workers will not have potentially is

the right to go and work within the

EU without a visa. The idea of

associate citizenship was raised by

the president of the European

Parliament and others. Would he look

seriously at this, so that British

workers, perhaps younger ones, would

be able to go and work in the

European Union without a visa,

certainly for a limited if not

extended period of time?

We will look at these altogether. I

have spoken about this briefly

already. I will be interested to

hear what they are proposing. We

will listen to anything of this

nature. The aim is to be good for

Europe, good for Britain and good

for the citizens of Europe and

Britain and that is what we intend

to do.

This question is ironic

coming from the Labour Party who

voted against the withdrawal bill,

that will protect worker's rights.

We pass legislation in this place to

protect them and will continue to do

so.

I remember the last time he

asked the question in this session

on the subject and he reminded us

that it was the Conservative Party

that introduced the first employment

protection legislation and we will

still be doing it after the Labour

Party has gone.

Am sure I will take

comfort from his assurances about

the Prime Minister's change of mind.

Given that there is no intention

whatsoever to reduce worker's rights

as a result of leaving the EU, would

he undertake to table amendment so

the unprecedented powers given to

ministers in that bill cannot by

statute be used to abuse worker's

rights?

The point is they are not

intended to remove or reduce any

law. They are intended to make the

laws practical matters what they

will do. If we haven't got it right,

we will talk to everyone involved to

make sure we have got it right.

As

well as the potential threat to

worker's rights, there is a threat

by the removal of the Charter

fundamental rights from domestic

legislation. As the junior minister

was unable to give the Select

Committee an example of anyone whose

interests would be damaged by

retaining that charter could he tell

us who's interests will be damaged

if we leave it in place?

I have made

this point over and over again. It

is essentially a list of existing

rights. It doesn't generate any new

ones. I have said to the Shadow

Secretary of State, if you identify

one that is lost, we will put it

back.

Of all the people of Prime

Minister could have chosen to fill

another vacancy in her breakfasting,

last week she sat upon someone who

has called for the agency worker's

directors and all the other barriers

to employing people. What signal

does the secretary of state think it

sends to people across the country

about how they will maintain rights

at work?

The new Minister of my

department is a brilliant

appointment and they will deliver

the Government's policy incredibly

well.

The public will rightly be

suspicious about the commitments the

Secretary of State has given. The

sentiments that Lord Callaghan

expressed widely shared on the

Government's ventures. The Secretary

of State could accept the things

that Hants worker's rights. Can he

give a commitment today?

I will take

no lecture for somebody who voted

against the entire bill.

I will

answer questions three, seven and 22

together. We have been working

closely with us create area of

staple food and run affairs. --

rural affairs. We will provide

stability for.

It is important he is

having those discussions with DEFRA.

In terms of their financial

arrangements, their future crop

rotations and future animal stocks.

In making our pledge to maintain the

same cash funds to the end of

Parliament, I would say we do expect

the end of parliament to be 2022

which will give a greater level of

security and certainty of the farm

owners than anywhere else in the new

-- EU, where funding is guaranteed

until 2020.

It is clear to me that

Banbury cake should be enjoyed the

world over. What opportunities are

being done for global trade in the

food and farming trade post Brexit?

I agree that Banbury cake should be

enjoyed the world over and we

continue to work with the Department

for trade to identify opportunities

for such sales.

I support the call

from my honourable friend from

Dumfries and Gallery -- Galloway.

When will the Government respond to

this request and can he reassure

farmers in my constituency that

wherever the future support system

is developed post Brexit come it

will affect the challenging

conditions some farmers in Scotland

face?

I have characteristic

attention to detail. We have

received the letter from Dumfries

and Galloway and I know the

Secretary of State for environment

is looking into the issues raised

and will respond in due course.

Can

I encouraged the minister to wake up

early in the morning and listened to

Farming Today. Did he hear them

saying that farmers are going to go

bankrupt, farmers want to know what

the prognosis is for the farming

sector. Wake up, listen to BBC

Farming Today and do something

decent for farmers in this country.

He makes his point in his

characteristic style. My first

interview was for Farming Today. I

have always taken it seriously. The

point I make is I don't always rise

in time to listen to it but we have

given the guarantees we have and I

would reiterate the point we have

made that we expect these guarantees

to last until 2022. A better

guarantee than anywhere else in the

EU.

Sheep farming is integral to the

landscape and economy of Cumbria and

much of the rest of the country. 40%

of lamb products are exported. 90%

of which goes to the European Union

will stop rules state that tariff

the sheep products is 52%. What can

the Minister say to encourage and

give confidence to our sheep

farmers?

The honourable gentleman

knows that we wish to have a deep

and special partnership of the

European Union including a free

trade agreement of unprecedented

scale. I hope we will be able to

complete tariff free trade.

This

Government is letting farmers down.

They cannot agree what type of

chicken we should be allowed to

import after the EU -- after we'd

leave the European Union. The

Environment Secretary said many

things but what is the Government's

position on the importation of

chlorinated chicken?

When we have

left the EU, I look forward to the

debates in this house on all of

these matters.

I will take questions

four and 17 together. The Government

is committed to the best deal for

the UK. A deal that works for all

parts of the UK. We have been

engaging with the Scottish

Government and devolved

administration should be engaged in

this process. We are undertaking

sector and analysis covering the

whole of the UK economy including

Scotland.

Report concluded Scotland

faces losing 30 billion in the event

of a hard Brexit. How does that

compare to this Government's own

impact and how it affects Scotland

and when will it be published?

It is

covering the entire UK economy. We

will take into account the

circumstances before negotiating the

strategy. Keeping in mind, the

documents I have requested don't

exist in the form suggested in the

motion.

Scotland and the UK has it

significant pharmaceutical industry.

The Government repeatedly talks

about the option of leaving the EU

without a deal. Is the Minister

aware the World Trade Organisation

drug list was last updated in 2010.

Any drugs developed since then would

face tariffs.

We have been engaging

with the pharmaceuticals industry in

Scotland and across the UK. She will

note the joint letter from the

Secretary of State for Health

setting out our intention to

establish close cooperation on this.

There is huge mutual benefit in

continuing to do so.

We have an

importance of in Scotland for the

food and drink industry. What

discussions has my honourable friend

has -- had with the Department for

rural affairs and ensuring the best

deal for Scottish fishermen and

seafood processing industries in the

UK as we leave the EU?

Emacs and

important point. We have been

meeting regularly with the Scotland

Office and our colleagues to discuss

these issues. They have been

discussed in the JNC with regard to

the important principles.

Scotland

is a significant beneficiary of the

European investment bank. If Britain

leads the European investment bank

after Brexit, will the Government

replace it with the British

investment bank with equivalent

resources?

You will note the UK is a

significant shareholder in the

European investment bank as well as

being a significant beneficiary from

its lending is. The Chancellor set

out this is an area where we will

look at the opportunities for future

cooperation when we come to the

future relationship. The UK will

take whatever steps are necessary in

the event that there was no deal. We

are working towards a constructive

deal for both sides.

A future

partnership between the UK and the

EU is in the interests of both sides

and I am confident we will secure a

good deal. A responsible Government

should prepare for all potential

outcomes and we are undertaking were

to cross -- work across the group of

scenarios. We will not risk are

negotiating position.

The Government

are hiding the truth FAQs about

Brexit from the British people. The

Government using this information

are making contingency plans for a

failure to make a trade deal. How

can businesses and public services

make their plans if they don't have

the same information?

Who mentioned

true facts? There is a

misunderstanding about this central

analysis. It is not a series of 50

plus quantitative forecasts and if

they were such forecasts, they

couldn't be said to represent true

facts. We have made our position

clear and we will continue as we

have set out.

The EU's refusal to

discuss the future relationship is

clearly founded upon the relief

which no doubt the assessments will

show to be mistaken, that they made

the UK hand over large sums of money

to be the horrors of no agreement.

Will my right honourable friend and

his colleagues are sure that you --

EU that was the UK is anxious to

have a free trade agreement, it is

also entirely happy to trade with

them on a WTO basis?

I am grateful

for his question. He is an expert in

these matters. President has said we

all working actively on a deal. Mr

Barnier has said we wanted build a

lasting partnership with the UK. We

want to deliver that partnership but

the point he makes is well made.

The

Government recently published a law

enforcement and criminal justice

negotiation paper without consulting

the Scottish Government. The

Minister tell me what engagements

did he have with the Scottish legal

profession before this paper was

published?

He might honourable

friend for Worcester has met with

them and were he to be given a

question, he would give a full and

serve.

It is wise of the Government

to prepare dossiers on the impact

Brexit within the UK. I assume the

European Union has done something

similar as to what they are going to

do when they lose ten to £12 billion

a year and the German Government may

have done one about the impact of

the German car industry and the

French may have done one about the

wine industry in France. Has he

received any representations from

any of the politicians opposite to

press those governments to publish

their dossiers?

He makes an

extremely good point. I feel sure

all sides in this negotiation are

conducting meta-analysis. He makes a

good point and I think electors for

all members of this house will know

who is asking for which negotiating

capital to be revealed on what it

says about people's actual

acceptance of the referendum result.

As the Prime Minister set out in her

speech, the Government would like to

work with the EU to find ways of

ensuring the long-term development

of our Government. This includes

programmes such as those which

promote science, education and

culture, and our mutual security.

This will be a matter for the

negotiations.

Why has the Secretary of State not

engaged on the issue with more

energy with the Commission? And if

access is not maintained, will there

be a commitment to funding UK

researchers as third country

participants?

We have engaged with great energy on

this issue, but the structure of

talks means this is something for

the funeral partnership -- future

partnership. We have published a

paper setting out a very open office

to discuss these issues with the EU,

and we look forward to their

response. But those have not been

published yet.

The Minister does not seem to get

it, that the time for phage is over.

UK researchers are being excluded

from projects now, because the

Government have failed to confirm

our position. -- the time for fudge

is over. UK students considering

applications now for the Erasmus

programme starting in 2018, do not

know whether they will be able to

continue for this programme is'

duration. Ministers should stop

sending conflicting signals, and

compete -- commit to both programmes

for the duration of the

multinational financial framework.

Will they do that?

Or I would point out to the

honourable gentleman is that we have

already protected funding up to

2022, the research and development

funding guarantees is essential --

additional to science funding. With

regard to Erasmus, we will

underwrite successful bids,

submitted while the UK was still a

member state. So his information is

just not right.

I apologise, Mr Speaker. I will

answer ten and 17 together. A

reciprocal agreement to maintain the

rights of citizens in the UK.

The

Minister's in rather a pickle. I

feel his pain, but there is no

grouping of ten with 17. As in

American football, the honourable

gentleman can have a brief time out!

Children's rights.

Our commitment

will remain unwavering after we have

left the EU. The Charter of

fundamental rights did not create

any new rights, instead it

catalogued rights which have already

existed. They will be retained in

law at the point we accept.

It is clear ministers take

children's rights after Brexit very

seriously, and the Minister will

know that EU mechanisms such as Euro

poll on the European Arrest Warrant

have played a very significant role

in protecting children from serious

cross-border crime. What assurances

can he give the House that

children's interests of safeguarding

will be paramount? -- Europol.

I refer the honourable lady to our

future security paper, which makes

the point about our interest in

cooperating on these matters. But

this has takes the issue of

children's rights seriously, and we

will ensure that we establish the

best approach to this, both in

negotiations and our own domestic

law.

Number 11. This one is mine! My

colleagues and I have engaged with

the financial security -- services

sector, and have received assurances

from a wide variety of stakeholders,

and will continue to do so.

Because of our current inability to

access European markets, London

financial services sector processes

transactions worth about £880

billion every day. -- because of our

ability. That is about 100 times our

net annual contribution to the EU at

the moment, and about 15 times the

highest spoken of as a potential

financial settlement. Does he not

agree it is imperative...

I'm glad the? 'S coming! Questions

are terribly long-winded. -- the

question mark.

Is it not imperative we protect

access to financial sectors to

European markets?

My honourable friend draws attention

to the huge importance of global

financial sector in London to the

whole of Europe, and we are very

well aware of the importance of

financial services market access,

that the access that we have

benefits customers and business

across the EU and Europe, and we are

-- UK and Europe. That is why we are

working closely with the Treasury to

make sure we have the strongest

possible offer reciprocal market

access.

It is not just that you're clearing

houses deal with transactions worth

?1 trillion a day, it is that the

100,000 jobs in the sector could be

at risk if Brussels decides that

because of systemic risk, the

clearing houses have to move to

within the EU. Colour as the

Minister to take this seriously, and

enter into negotiations to make sure

we protect the vital industry?

Negotiations are ongoing, and the

council is still discussing the

merits of relocation policy. HM

Treasury as you know Leeds financial

services including ongoing business

as usual EU negotiations, but this

is an issue with which we continue

to work with them very closely.

What percentage of the 75,000 people

the Bank of England put that could

lose their jobs might come from the

Europe clearing sector? And would he

support the call from the Bank of

England for that to be an amendment

to the EU withdrawal Bill to protect

derivatives?

The honourable gentleman refers to a

figure which I understand the Bank

of England discussed and did not

produce, and I think with regards to

amendments to the repeal Bill we

look forward to debating those of

the upcoming committee stage.

Number 12, so. Article 50 stipulates

that the final withdrawal agreement

should be concluded on behalf of the

union by the council after obtaining

consent from the European

Parliament. They are entitled to a

state yes or no vote, it cannot

amend the withdrawal. As if I

minister has said, we are confident

we will be able to conclude the

negotiations in time to honour the

voting commitments made both in our

Parliament and the European

Parliament. We do not expect

failure, but success.

Given that crazed Europhile MEPs are

seeking to punish the United Kingdom

for daring to vote to leave the

European Union, and given that these

same people are under the deluded

impression that no deal is actually

worse for the UK than a bad deal, it

would seem to me that it is very

likely the European Parliament will

seek to veto any such agreement.

Should we therefore redouble our

efforts to prepare for a no deal

situation?

The last time I used the phrase "Get

the behind me, Satan", he thought I

was calling him Satan! So I will

keep off that and say this. Of

course the European Parliament is

very enthused about the institutions

of the European Union. But when it

comes to the throat, the vote will

be clear on the deal will be clear

that we will agree with the EU. And

they will also have to reflect their

responsibilities, the MEPs, to their

own constituents, in their own

countries. And what he and I have

always agreed is that the best

outcome for everybody is a free

trade arrangement bubble help not

just us, but Holland, France,

Germany and all the other 27 member

States.

His honourable friend told the

Select Committee that the deal will

cover permission to protect personal

data between the EU -- UK and EU, so

if there is not a deal, there will

no longer be a formal basis for that

part of the economy that depends on

particular cases. Should we then

take steps now to ensure a data

adequacy declaration from the

European Commission, and in that

light, can I commend to him

amendment 151 in my name to the

European withdrawal Bill?

Let me say this. When talking to but

the Select Committees both in the

Lords and the Commons, in the last

week or so, I made plain that I

think a so-called no deal is not

probable. The deal is by far and

away the most probable thing that is

in the future for our country. But

even a no deal is not likely to be a

complete blank slate, I talked to

him about what is called a basic

deal, so areas such as data and

aviation and nuclear trade and a

whole series of whether our massive

amounts to lose on both sides, I

would expect a deal in any event.

But we are looking in our

contingency plan exercise at all

options, and we will have plans for

them as well.

As we leave the EU, the Government's

committed to ensuring that Britain

remains a global hub. A future paper

sets out our aim for a -- and

ambitious arrangement that ensures

valuable research links between us

continue to grow.

The Prime Minister established in

the Lancaster House speech the

Government's priority in terms of

science and technology. Can the

Minister of data house on the

Government's plans for future

collaboration with the EU in this

area?

As champion of the fourth industrial

Revolution, he is right. The

Government said that the UK will

build on its relationship with the

EU and establish an agreement on

science and innovation that ensures

valuable research legs continue to

grow, this will deliver shared UK

prosperity. The UK would like to

work with EU on designing this

agreement, and would welcome a full

and open discussion about all the

options, and continued

collaboration.

The UK has a world beating

universities and research sector,

and Newcastle University in my

constituency is an excellent

example. They have emphasised to me

repeatedly that successful research

and innovation depends on

collaboration with people from all

disciplines, coming to the UK. What

will the Minister do to ensure that

it's possible, ensure -- reassure

research is now in the UK that they

will continue to be able to work?

We have been very clear we do not

see the referendum result as a vote

for the UK to pull up the

drawbridge. We will make an open and

tolerant country that recognises the

valuable contribution people coming

to our country will make to edge. As

science paper sets this out, our

citizens' White Paper sets this out.

We have made great progress through

five rounds of negotiations, and are

now within touching agreement

bust-up distance of agreement. --

touching distance of agreement.

As can be seen in the last

publishing joint table, over two

thirds is in the green sector. This

progress has been built further in

the latest round of negotiations. We

reached agreement on a number of

issues including the broad framework

for residents. All aspects of

reciprocal health care arrangements,

the vast majority of security social

-- session security arrangements,

and enabling citizens directly. We

are confident that with flexibility

and creativity on both sides, we can

reach a final agreement shortly.

EU citizens living in Colchester are

important parts of our community.

What assurances can buy right

honourable friend give me and them

that reaching an agreement will

their rights before our departure

from the EU will continue to be the

utmost priority in our negotiations?

I can reassure my honourable friend

and his constituents that protecting

the rights of European Union

citizens in the UK and UK nationals

in the EU is the first priority for

us in these negotiations. As my

right honourable friend the Prime

Minister has made clear repeatedly,

we want people to stay and we want

families to stay together. We

continue to seek a reciprocal

arrangement, that will work in the

interests of both EU citizens in the

UK and UK nationals in the European

Union. We are confident that with

flexibility and creativity, will be

able to conclude discussions on

these citizens' right swiftly.

Could you perhaps outlined the

discussions do you have had with the

Home Secretary in relation to the EU

citizens' rights in relation to the

visa situation for seasonal workers?

We have had a number of other

stations around a whole Dutchman

whole question of the labour market

generally and Northern Ireland in

particular. But we have commissioned

of course the migration advisory

Council to produce a report which

will cover this issue as well.

However, he has -- if he has

specific issues, I'll be happy to

from him? --.

As I touched on earlier, reaching a

reciprocal agreement to safeguard

the rights of EU citizens in the UK

and UK nationals in the EU is our

first priority. It is clear this is

the share priority for both sides,

we are confident we will reach a

deal, and we will have held five

rounds of discussions so far.

Despite the Foreign Secretary

telling EU nationals their rights

will be protected whatsoever they

remain unsure. Their morale remains

challenged. Why doesn't the

Government accepts Labour's

suggestion of a unilateral

recognition of EU citizen's rights

which will transform the town of

these negotiations and be a giant

step forward for this country and

the people we serve?

What the Prime

Minister has said is we want them to

stay if the honourable gentleman

looks at the detail of the

negotiations, he will see this is

about making sure it works and

making sure people have those rights

properly protected. We have received

agreement and the UK -- and let UK

goes beyond the EU. We want to make

sure we end up with a deal that

provides certainty to citizens in

the EU and UK.

We build a bridge to

our future partnership to our

business and people time to adjust

and allowing new system to be put in

place. It makes sense for there to

be one set of changes. The Prime

Minister's speech set out for a time

limited implementation period based

on the existing shops of EU rules

and regulations to provide certainty

to individuals and businesses. The

European Council set up the

possibilities in its guidelines. We

want to get this agreed as early as

possible.

The Chancellor has

described the proposal for a

transitional arrangement as a

wasting asset the businesses. The

arrangements become less vulnerable

the longer it takes to negotiate

them. They seized to provide

certainty about the future. Does the

Minister agree with this assessment

can he therefore rule out lengthy

negotiations over the terms of the

transitional arrangements?

The

honourable lady makes a good point.

There are three reasons for the

implementation period. One of them

is to give businesses a significant

amount of time after the decisions

are made so they can make their

decisions on the basis of clarity

and certainty. The other two are to

give Government time to prepare

changes and to give foreign

governments time to accommodate also

because we will depend on French

customs arrangements. The first is a

wasted thing if it goes on very

long. The council is the middle of

December. If it finds progress on

that point, we'll start straightaway

and conclude as fast as we can. It

is a negotiation and there are two

sides to the decision. We will be as

quick as we can to give greater

certainty to British business.

We

are better informed in including any

consideration that might be thought

to be in any degree material.

In the

event of a no deal, why would the EU

agreed to a transitional period?

You'll have to ask the Union mats.

-- that.

I am hoping...

Eager to

hear the question but number one

will do for a start.

I have been

here a lot longer than the

honourable lady so I have less

excuse. The Prime Minister's speech

in Florence provided new dynamic for

the EU negotiations. This was

recognised at the October counsel

when leaders confirmed to start

internal work on the partnership. We

are making good progress on a raft

of separation issues, financial

separate and I look forward to

further hard work when I travelled

to Brussels to continue talks next

week. I will continue to engage with

member states across Europe to talk

about the deep and special

partnership we seek to strike. I am

meeting with my counterparts in the

Irish Government later today.

I

thank the Minister. I'm hoping the

Secretary of State can help answer a

question that my constituents keep

asking about how much is all of this

going to cost us? It is certainly

something Government departments

don't seem able to answer. I have

been asking them and some of them

think they are not paying anything

at all and thinks everybody else is

paying. Department for business as

it has received extra cash to do

with the negotiations. Culture says

he does know how much this will

cost. DC LG says it is expecting the

Treasury to pick up the tab. The MoD

says no funding is required. Can the

Secretary of State committed

publishing by departments, buy gear,

how much money is being put aside

for the cost of the negotiations and

whether that money is...

Order. I

know she is an academic Doctor but

it is not time to give the

presentation of a thesis.

The speed

of whip doesn't equate to speed of

question. We have already said they

had decided money from planning.

I have the nations and regions in

the UK and I have already seen the

London mayor talking about the North

and I'm about to see Andy Street. We

will continue our ongoing

discussions with the regions of the

UK though through the local

Government but the businesses.

Callum steel said that failure

will... Organised crime does not

respect national borders so can he

assured the Scottish Police

Federation that it will continue

after Brexit.

We are making plain that the

question of security,

counter-terrorism, foreign policy,

it will make a second treaty which

we intend to put to the European

Union and every single member state

I have spoken to has welcomed that.

I expect we will be able to make the

Scottish Police Federation very

happy.

One of the questions our fine

producers asked in Lincolnshire was

they wanted access to labour to

continue as free movement and. I

wonder if he can reassure those

great businesses that he will

continue to work with the Home

Office to make sure some version of

seasonal agricultural worker's

scheme continues as free movement

ended.

I will make one further point

to the one I made to that question

about the NAC looking at this.

Throughout the last year, I have

said that taking back control of

migration doesn't mean their sudden

stop on migration or a being managed

in a way that damages the economy.

He can take comfort from that.

Following the very clearly expressed

will of the houses that the sectoral

analysis should be given to the

select committees, does he agree

that the Government must give the

papers to the select committee in

fall? Or does he not trust the

Select Committee?

I missed a very

good debate by the sound of it, one

that would suit my character. I have

spoken to the chairman of the Select

Committee. He sends his apologies

for not being here today. I am

organising to talk to him about how

we handle the confidentiality of the

documentation. I reiterate the point

that these documents are not some

grand plan. They are data about the

regulations, markets of individual

sectors which will form our

negotiation. We will be open as we

can be with the Select Committee.

Has the Secretary of State be made

aware of the evidence from the

aviation industry to the transport

select committee on Monday when they

spoke very positively about the

future of their industry post-Brexit

bust up they were satisfied with the

Government's approach and talk of

aircraft being grounded is nonsense.

I thank him for that important

question. We have been aware of that

evidence. We will continue to work

with the industry to make sure we

have the best approach to future

negotiations on this front. It is

reassuring to her confidence from

the aviation industry.

Ministers

have kindly committed to coming back

to the House with their response to

last night's vote in due course. We

note that shortly meant to four

months. But the ministers confirm

what they mean by due course and if

they don't know yet, when will they?

He has spoken already to be chairman

of the Select Committee and I spoke

with him briefly last night. We will

move as swiftly as is possible in

normal circumstances.

Today's

resilient fishermen are based in my

constituency. Did -- for decades

they have seen their livelihoods and

freedoms eroded by EU regulations.

Will the Minister explain and

reassure the fishermen about the

opportunities they face once we

leave the EU and take back control

over our fisheries policy?

If travel

during my duties I have met

fishermen who have been keen to take

back control of our waters and I can

assure her that this Government will

be seeking a fairer share of quota

as we take control of our fisheries

policy.

Will the Secretary of State

undertake and publish a list of the

regulatory agencies currently

operating under the European Union

which he believes will need to be

replicated by the United Kingdom on

the day Brexit?

That workers

currently ongoing. Departments have

set out that they will expect to

bring forward together between 800

to 1000 statutory instruments to

carry forward the degree of

certainty and continuity we expect

to deliver through the Repeal Bill

and we will put those instruments

before the House.

The President of

the article will be presenting in

London later this month. He take

that opportunity to explore with him

the opportunity that court might

give as a means of resolving dental

legal disputes and other matters of

resolution in a transitional future

arrangements?

I have met the

President and he is a very

enterprising individual who wants to

get more business for his court. I

don't think it will be the one that

we land with that when we go through

the whole question of arbitration

mechanism, we will look at all

options.

What steps has it taken to

look at environmental standards on

the UK leaving the EU?

We take the

environmental standards very

serious. It has promised to be the

first ever to leave the environment

and a better state than previous

generations. This is something we

looking forward to discussing with

the EU as part of their partnership

discussions.

Whilst looking for an

open free trade agreement, isn't it

sensible planning to prepare for a

no deal scenario?

Yes, he is right

and that is precisely what we are

doing. We are planning for all

options. The deal option, the

bare-bones or basic deal or the

incredibly improbable no deal

option. All of them are prepared

for.

Speaking on behalf of small

businesses in my constituency, what

plans does his department have to

protect supply chain SME's when the

UK leaves the EU?

Small businesses will benefit from

the access etc in the paper and this

is something we're looking to

discussing.

There have been reports

that senior current and former

parliamentary figures have been

engaged in private discussions with

the EU's chief negotiator and that

some of these individuals are

members of Her Majesty's Privy

Council. And the interests of

transparency is, at the transcript

you made available and is

Bjerregaard extra activity as

helpful only hindrance to the

national interest of the country.

There are no such records, helpful

or pendants, it Doi...

A series of

amendments have been tabled to

protect the place of Scotland and

Wales at any constitutional

settlement and they wonder if the

have been representations from the

Scottish or Welsh Conservative

leaders about areas is the ability

to be changed.

We are in constant

discussion with the Conservatives

and both Scotland and Wales over the

future of the Brexit and they have

been very active.

Again today the

Government has completely failed to

understand the urgent need for a

transition agreement as soon as

possible. Greedy Secretary of State

say apart from being out of the

European Commission -- could the

Secretary of State say which other

will not be included in radio.

We

really position with the European

Council will come to a conclusion

then the middle of December. We have

said today that we are going to

undertake the negotiation as fast as

possible thereafter. However urgent

we can be a do not know.

Could be

have some error clarity about the SU

or protected status for agricultural

exports including the 14

agricultural products and Wales

worth over £300 million.

I would be

very clear it is our intention to

seek agreement with European Union

about recognition of unprotected

names of origin, at a something we

will continue to work with

colleagues at Stephan to deliver.

The nuclear safeguards built

committee were told by witnesses

that the bill was inadequate and the

time insufficient to create an

alternative structure when you leave

the EU. Given the risks, with the

Secretary of State committed to

pushing for maintaining in the

agreement.

What I've say is that the

restitution act likely coupled to

the pain union and therefore we need

to leave it as the eve of the year.

While we will listen you look

carefully at the advice which has

been given by those experts and

stick what steps are appropriate to

the Government.

The young people of

the Glasgow youth Council are

applying for Erasmus funding, the

Secretary of State like to give them

best wishes. They are applying as

the pattern of year of young people

and to make sure that generation is

not the last to benefit from freedom

of blood across Europe. The Mac

freedom of movement.

Erasmus is one

of the institutions we will stay in

member of after we leave.

The rest

of the economy contributed £10

billion to the Treasury. Is it

conceivable that we will in due

course understand what the exact of

leaving is on the west of England

economy and can it be added to his

list of people who will be met about

the impact?

Someone originally from

Cornwall I was very pleased to visit

there in the course of the regional

engagement and I hope and expect we

will that as we seek ways to ensure

opportunities of leaving the

European Union are enjoyed by all

parts of the United Kingdom.

The

prime ministers, the Secretary of

State for Scotland and Wales have

not been able to answer this, can he

name one power that we would default

to the Scottish fun as it result of

Brexit? Doi the Scottish Parliament.

There is a discussion underway with

the default administrations,

agreement has been reached on

principle with common frameworks

have been required. A long list of

powers as we increase the competence

of each of the devolved

ministrations.

Far from creating a

global Britain, the Government have

created a Britain in which EU

citizens are having to seek

counselling and 10% who worked in

the NHS have left. Why would the

Government ring fence this issue or

issue a unilateral declaration to

provide certainty?

The Prime

Minister has been very clear that we

want EU citizens to stay. We are

looking for certainty as to how that

will be achieved and it is important

as it is agreed as soon as possible.

The Government paper on foreign

defence and security after our

leaving the European Union suggests

there are many areas where we want

to maintain a very strong ocean ship

with the EU. The paper seems to

suggest that we should have some

kind of observer status at the

governor Council meetings

afterwards. Would it not be bizarre

for us not to have that if we are

still engaged and things like

operation Atalanta and many other

projects that otherwise the rules

and determination of how those

projects should be progressed will

be determined by people and a room

which we are not able to access?

He

makes a very good point, I was

speaking with the French Foreign

Secretary last week and it was clear

that member states see a very

important role for Britain but just

as a provider of military power but

wisdom and skill, history and

tradition and refutation.