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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 16 Mar 2020
European Union: Negotiations (European Union Committee Report)

"Well, my Lords, that really was back to 1958.

Were the coronavirus pandemic not dominating the public debate almost to the exclusion of everything else, the admirable and forensic report of your Lordships’ EU Select Committee, which was so excellently introduced by my noble friend Lord Kinnoull and which we …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 16 Mar 2020
European Union: Negotiations (European Union Committee Report)

"Perhaps I can give the noble Viscount an answer to his question. The answer is no, it does not mean that. It could only mean that if the French agreed to make it mean that, and they will not...."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 16 Mar 2020
European Union: Negotiations (European Union Committee Report)

"Obviously the noble Lord did not listen very carefully to the quotation that I read from the joint declaration. It makes it quite clear that we recognise that geographical proximity, and the extent of our independence, require a level playing field. Perhaps he could answer that question...."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 26 Feb 2020
Brexit: Financial Assistance for Businesses

"My Lords, will the Minister recognise that he has indulged in a little bit of selective quotation? He has quite correctly referred to the statement that Northern Ireland remains within the UK customs arrangements, but he has not quoted the statement which is equally in the agreement and says that …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 18 Jul 2019
Detainee Issues

"The Minister has revealed the Government’s recent steep learning curve on extraordinary rendition, helped along the path by the activity of my noble friend Lord Tyrie. Do the Government now take the view that extraordinary rendition and what happens to people so rendered could bring anyone complicit in it within …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 08 Jul 2019
G20 Summit

"My Lords, this debate could and perhaps should have taken place a little earlier—ahead of the G20 meeting—but at least we now have the benefit of knowing the outcome of the meeting, and can make some assessment of it. It has been most excellently introduced by the noble Lord, Lord …..."
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Written Question
European Parliament: Elections
Tuesday 19th March 2019

Asked by: Lord Hannay of Chiswick (Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Lord Callanan on 27 February (HL Deb, col 242) that the legislation no longer exists on the UK statute book to hold European Parliament elections, what is the statutory basis for this.

Answered by Lord Young of Cookham

Once the UK leaves the European Union, the legislation that provides for the holding of European Parliamentary elections will no longer be necessary.

The European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (“the 2018 Act”) repeals the underlying pieces of legislation providing for the holding of European Parliamentary elections. The repeal of these provisions will come into effect on such a day as is set out in commencement Regulations. The European Parliamentary Elections Etc. (Repeal, Revocation, Amendment and Saving Provisions) (United Kingdom and Gibraltar) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 were made on 3rd December 2018 under powers in the 2018 Act. These Regulations make further provision as a result of the UK no longer participating in European Parliamentary elections, and will come into force on the day that the UK leaves the European Union.

Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 17 Jan 2019
Brexit: Stability of the Union

"My Lords, future generations of historians mulling over and analysing the dysfunction and muddle of the Brexit negotiations will, I suspect, have particular difficulty understanding and explaining how the charge was led by a party that still calls itself the Conservative and Unionist Party and by the Democratic Unionist Party …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 19 Jun 2018
European Union Referendum: Alleged Russian Interference

"My Lords, will the Minister say whether the Government are satisfied that the Electoral Commission has access to all the rather complex means—obviously, I do not want to go into intelligence matters in this House—that foreign Governments have to interfere in our affairs? Is the Electoral Commission really equipped to …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 12 Mar 2018
Immigration Statistics

"Does the Minister recognise that his description of the Bill that left this House was not entirely accurate? It required the Government to change not the statistics but the policy; and to stop treating students as economic migrants, not to stop counting them. Would he further recognise that defective statistical …..."
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