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Westminster Hall
Northern Ireland Protocol: Veterinary Agreement - Wed 15 Dec 2021
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) It is to trigger article 16. Do it sooner rather than later; do it right away. - Speech Link
2: Daniel Zeichner (LAB - Cambridge) Those checks are now a requirement on GB-NI trade. - Speech Link
3: Victoria Prentis (CON - Banbury) When we started this in January we hoped that it was a temporary solution for GB to NI movements, and - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland (EUC Report) - Mon 13 Sep 2021
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Hannay of Chiswick (CB - Life peer) We should not forget that triggering the Article 16 safeguard clause would open up the possibility for - Speech Link
2: Lord Hannan of Kingsclere (CON - Life peer) When we think that the European Union triggered Article 16, albeit briefly, on no grounds beyond pique - Speech Link
3: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LDEM - Life peer) do not like where we are, but the destination is not necessarily where we want to get to either. - Speech Link
4: Lord Frost (CON - Life peer) It would be making a significant mistake if it thought we were not ready to use Article 16 safeguards - Speech Link
5: Lord Frost (CON - Life peer) second point, if we were to use Article 16, it would obviously be open to the EU to consider countermeasures - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Northern Ireland Protocol - Wed 21 Jul 2021
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Brandon Lewis (CON - Great Yarmouth) In particular, we have looked carefully at the safeguards provided by article 16 of the protocol. - Speech Link
2: Brandon Lewis (CON - Great Yarmouth) We saw the EU’s attempt to trigger article 16 in a way that for many detrimentally affected the sense - Speech Link
3: Brandon Lewis (CON - Great Yarmouth) As I outlined in my statement, we are actually not using article 16. - Speech Link
4: Brandon Lewis (CON - Great Yarmouth) I specifically said that we are not triggering article 16. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Northern Ireland Protocol - Thu 15 Jul 2021
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: None We want unfettered GB-NI Trade; Oral evidence taken before the Petitions Committee on 22 February 2021 - Speech Link
2: John Redwood (CON - Wokingham) can be sustained and promoted so that GB-NI trade is also restored and not interfered with by the EU - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) their phrase, “stronger together” and, for that to happen, to trigger article 16. - Speech Link
4: Louise Haigh (LAB - Sheffield, Heeley) A modern mechanism, designed for GB-EU and NI-GB agrifood trade flows, could be designed to meet the - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Northern Ireland Protocol - Wed 10 Mar 2021
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Richard Thomson (SNP - Gordon) the article 16 procedure. - Speech Link
2: Brandon Lewis (CON - Great Yarmouth) want to continue that way.The reason we made the decision last week was purely that we were at this - Speech Link
3: Brandon Lewis (CON - Great Yarmouth) We are also clear that we want to make sure that there is not just unfettered access for Northern Ireland - Speech Link
4: Brandon Lewis (CON - Great Yarmouth) We have been consistent in what we wanted to deliver, and we have delivered unfettered access for Northern - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 03 Mar 2021
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Brandon Lewis (CON - Great Yarmouth) We want to ensure that that is the case. - Speech Link
2: Graham Stringer (LAB - Blackley and Broughton) Would it not make sense to renegotiate it to an agreement of mutual enforcement or trigger article 16 - Speech Link
3: Brandon Lewis (CON - Great Yarmouth) We have also been very clear that we want to ensure that free flow and flexible trade across the United - Speech Link
4: Carla Lockhart (DUP - Upper Bann) to GB or from GB to NI. - Speech Link
5: Boris Johnson (CON - Uxbridge and South Ruislip) There is unfettered access NI-GB and GB-NI. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Northern Ireland Protocol: Disruption to Trade - Wed 13 Jan 2021
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Michael Gove (CON - Surrey Heath) We are grateful for that, because we want to do everything that we can to resolve those problems.On the - Speech Link
2: Michael Gove (CON - Surrey Heath) We want, first of all, to make sure that we are doing everything technically and administratively in - Speech Link
3: Michael Gove (CON - Surrey Heath) have a pragmatic approach towards grace periods and the operation of the protocol, because we want to - Speech Link
4: Claire Hanna (SDLP - Belfast South) article 16 and end the protocol? - Speech Link
5: Ian Paisley (DUP - North Antrim) We need to upgrade the training of people in GB who are involved in trade. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement - Fri 08 Jan 2021
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Oates (LDEM - Life peer) Today, we are given two minutes to debate the detail of the most important trade agreement we are ever - Speech Link
2: Lord Teverson (LDEM - Life peer) tariff-free trade in fisheries—indeed, our trade at all—if we fail to come to agreement then. - Speech Link
3: Lord Greaves (LDEM - Life peer) The first general point that I want to make is that we ought to have less trade. - Speech Link
4: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LDEM - Life peer) We gave up extensive trade facilitation areas. We gave up mutual recognition on conformity. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
United Kingdom Internal Market Bill
2nd reading - Mon 19 Oct 2020
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Lord Bruce of Bennachie (LDEM - Life peer) standards or we might want lower carbon specs. - Speech Link
2: Viscount Trenchard (CON - Excepted Hereditary) Indeed, the Prime Minister has always been clear and consistent that we want a Canada-style trade agreement - Speech Link
3: Lord Bowness (CB - Life peer) We want a Canada free trade agreement, but not just the Canada deal—we want Canada-plus, because we believe - Speech Link
4: Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick (LAB - Life peer) I also want to see unfettered access to the GB market for Northern Ireland businesses. - Speech Link
5: Lord Bilimoria (CB - Life peer) in it shall prevent unfettered access to the GB market for trade in goods.On 16 October, the noble Earl - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
United Kingdom Internal Market Bill - Tue 22 Sep 2020
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Bim Afolami (CON - Hitchin and Harpenden) We all have businesses in our constituencies that trade. - Speech Link
2: Alexander Stafford (CON - Rother Valley) of this year we can trade as one big bloc. - Speech Link
3: Alexander Stafford (CON - Rother Valley) We want to give them stability after we leave the European Union; we want to ensure that businesses flourish - Speech Link
4: Alexander Stafford (CON - Rother Valley) We want to keep us together, and we will not parcel off our great country. - Speech Link