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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 13 Jan 2021
Oral Answers to Questions

" There is real disappointment that a reciprocal work permit-free deal for touring musicians and performers has not been agreed with the EU. No one is interested in a blame game. It is clearly fixable and in Britain’s economic and cultural interest to fix it quickly, but it needs leadership …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 13 Jan 2021
Northern Ireland Protocol: Disruption to Trade

"On 30 September, the Northern Ireland Secretary acknowledged to me in the House that there were going to be checks in Northern Ireland, but on 1 January he tweeted:

“There is no ‘Irish Sea Border’.”

Is not this default position of denial, denial, denial by Ministers hampering businesses in dealing …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 30 Dec 2020
European Union (Future Relationship) Bill

"I understand completely the exasperation of people that, four and a half years after the Brexit referendum, we are still debating this subject, and I understand the desire to move on. I also accept the proposition that a thin deal is better than no deal, but this is not only …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 23 Nov 2020
Covid-19: Winter Plan

"There have been very positive discussions with the devolved Administrations, including in Wales, about a joined-up Christmas, but can the Prime Minister do something about the terminal incontinence of the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in continuing to leak the details of those discussions, undermining the trust and respect …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 02 Nov 2020
Covid-19 Update

"When SAGE advised a national firebreak lockdown, the Welsh First Minister introduced one, which my constituents are now undertaking here in Cardiff West. Given the Prime Minister’s statement today, does he agree that Mark Drakeford was right to act?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 19 Oct 2020
EU Exit: Negotiations and the Joint Committee

"We have heard it all now: it is just, according to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, “an unfortunate sequence of events”, otherwise known as the Lemony Snicket defence—all the fault of evil uncle Olaf and his foreign friends. But on the serious point about this, consider how it …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 12 Oct 2020
Covid-19 Update

"Between 27 September and 3 October, 89% of positive cases were reached by local authority public health tracing in Wales, but for the equivalent period just 74% were reached by the outsourced, centralised system in England. That is not ideology; that is just better virus-control policy to save lives. Test …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 23 Sep 2020
EU Exit: End of Transition Period

"You should read the Daily Mail...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 23 Sep 2020
EU Exit: End of Transition Period

"Seven thousand HGV lorries parked end to end would stretch from this building to Dover—that is the scale of the problem that the Minister has set out. Where will the 29 extra lorry parks be? We need to know that. This is about Government preparedness. His statement seemed to be …..."
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Written Question
United Kingdom Security Vetting
Monday 6th July 2020

Asked by: Lord Brennan of Canton (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 29 June 2020 to Question 64088 on United Kingdom Security Vetting, what his most recent estimate is of the average time taken to process a routine application in the (a) Counter Terrorist Check, (b) Security Check and (c) Developed Vetting categories.

Answered by Chloe Smith

Further details relating to the questions asked will not be disclosed in order to safeguard national security. This is in line with the practice of successive administrations.