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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 21 Jan 2020
European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill

"My Lords, I support the amendment, which would put in statutory form what has grown into an important convention. I would like clarification, which I failed to get in yesterday’s debate, regarding the breadth of the convention. I asked a specific question:

“will the Minister clarify and emphasise that legislative …..."
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Written Question
EU Budget: Audit
Tuesday 17th July 2018

Asked by: Lord Morris of Aberavon (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the historic failure of auditors to fully certify the accounts of the EU has been raised in recent negotiations.

Answered by Lord Callanan - Shadow Minister (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

As we have said previously, we are not going to provide a running commentary on every twist and turn of ongoing negotiations.

Recent negotiations have been building on the significant agreement reached in March. We’re continuing to make good progress and have reached agreement across the vast majority of the draft Withdrawal Agreement.

We are now focussed on negotiating the right future relationship and have been having regular discussions with the EU outlining our positions on a wide range of topics covering the future security partnership and the future economic partnership.

Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 12 Mar 2018
European Union (Withdrawal) Bill

"My Lords, I support the amendments in the name of the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hope, and I am grateful to him for the careful way in which he has gone through each of them. I do not propose to do that myself, but I will address the broad …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 20 Dec 2017
Brexit: Revocability

"My Lords, the Minister will correct me if I am wrong, but were not parts of Sir Nicholas Lyell’s advice on the Maastricht treaty made known to the House of Commons?..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 24 Oct 2017
Brexit: Devolved Administrations

"My Lords, is it not a principle of good governance that powers once devolved should not be lightly withdrawn? Does the Minister agree that it is not beyond the wit of parliamentary counsel, properly instructed, to draft proposals to maintain the status quo and to provide for the interregnum in …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 12 Oct 2017
Brexit: Financial Settlement

"My Lords, will the settlement take into account the failure of the auditors of the Community to certify the accounts for more than 10 years?..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 07 Nov 2016
Brexit: Article 50

"My Lords, will the Minister inform the Prime Minister that she should invite the Minister for Justice to study her constitutional duties under the Constitutional Reform Act—particularly Section 3(1) and 3(6)—to defend the judiciary, in view of her half-hearted and delayed defence of the judiciary and her failure to rebut …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 18 Jul 2016
Royal Prerogative

"My Lords, I have already welcomed the Government’s decision, announced last week, on the need for the consent of Parliament to invoke Article 50 rather than rely on the royal prerogative. Since the Constitution Committee of this House proposed, following evidence from the late Lord Mayhew and from me, that …..."
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