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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 16 May 2018
Leaving the EU: Customs

"I am glad we are having this debate. It is often demanded of this House on international matters and in negotiations that we back the Prime Minister of the day, but 78 years ago this month the Labour party did the unimaginable: in the early stages of the second world …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 16 May 2018
Leaving the EU: Customs

"I absolutely support what the hon. Lady calls for. That is very much the reason why I am an advocate of our continued participation not only in the customs union but in the European economic area. Not only would leaving the customs union and the EEA be a bad decision …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 16 May 2018
Leaving the EU: Customs

"That is absolutely right, and of course it is why I support the motion. However, I would also like to see the Government’s papers that led them to decide that we should not take up the offer that the EU is making to us of continuing to participate in the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 18 Dec 2017
European Council

"Last year, the Prime Minister wrote to me giving the same general assurance on workers’ rights that she just gave to the Leader of the Opposition. She did not actually answer his specific question today, however, so I ask her again: given that her Cabinet colleagues are now agitating for …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 11 Dec 2017
Brexit Negotiations

"Senior civil servants across Whitehall have reportedly been instructed from here on not to commit to writing any evaluation they make of the impact of Brexit on their industry sectors. Is that true? If so, why the cover-up?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 23 Oct 2017
European Council

"As we have heard this afternoon, many Conservative Members claim that leaving with no deal and trading on WTO terms will be relatively straightforward. But if we are in a no deal scenario, we will still need the EU, in its capacity as a member of the WTO, to agree …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 09 Oct 2017
UK Plans for Leaving the EU

"The Prime Minister has been asked several times about implementation of transition and has not made any sense at all in the answers she has given. She has said today that she foresees a framework for transition of around two years along the existing structure of EU rules and regulations. …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 26 Jun 2017
European Council

"To follow the hon. Member for North Antrim (Ian Paisley), the Prime Minister’s new governing partner, the Democratic Unionist Party, said in its manifesto that it would seek to deliver a “frictionless border” with the Republic of Ireland and a

“comprehensive free trade and customs agreement with the European Union”.

…..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 14 Mar 2017
European Council

"On single market membership, in their 2015 manifesto the Prime Minister and her party made an unconditional commitment to

“safeguard British interests in the Single Market.”

She castigated my hon. Friends the Members for Wirral South (Alison McGovern) and for Pontypridd (Owen Smith) for raising that issue, but on 26 …..."
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Written Question
Cabinet Office: Migrant Workers
Tuesday 8th November 2016

Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many citizens of non-UK EU countries work in his Department, its agencies and non-departmental public bodies.

Answered by Chris Skidmore

All Government Departments are bound by legal requirements concerning the right to work in the UK and, in addition, the Civil Service Nationality Rules. Evidence of nationality is checked at the point of recruitment into the Civil Service as part of wider pre-employment checks, but there is no requirement on departments to retain this information beyond the point at which it has served its purpose.