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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 29 Oct 2019
Early Parliamentary General Election Bill

"This has been a fractious, challenging, controversial and difficult debate at times. Do you agree, Mr Speaker, that in the context of this debate, it is extraordinarily important that all Members agree that their behaviour, whether in this House or in the potential general election to come, should be exemplary, …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 03 Oct 2019
Brexit Negotiations

"The Prime Minister said some moments ago that the history of referendums in this country was not good, but may I remind him that by 71% the Good Friday agreement was passed by a referendum?

I return the Prime Minister to the detail of his statement today. On page 3, …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 25 Sep 2019
Prime Minister's Update

"The irony is not lost on any of us that the Prime Minister told us that Prorogation was nothing to do with Brexit and yet here we are talking constantly about Brexit.

I want to raise with the Prime Minister a more serious point about our political culture. Those of …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 25 Sep 2019
Brexit Readiness: Operation Yellowhammer

"The Minister told us that HMRC has allocated EORI numbers to 88,000 VAT-registered businesses that currently trade with the EU. However, two years ago, HMRC told the Treasury Committee that 130,000 such businesses need them. What has happened to the other 42,000?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 03 Sep 2019
G7 Summit

"The Prime Minister tells us he is going to Dublin on Monday to see the Taoiseach where no doubt he will be asked, as he has been asked today, about his proposals for the backstop, so may I ask if he has seen the comment from former Member of this …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 25 Jul 2019
Priorities for Government

"It is quite clear that this is now a Vote Leave Government. Contrary to what the Prime Minister said, he has been clear about the possibility of a no-deal Brexit. I want to take him back to his words as part of Vote Leave. He said on 1 June 2016:

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 25 Mar 2019
European Union (Withdrawal) Act

"I am glad to hear my right hon. and learned Friend say that the Labour party will whip against no deal, because we are talking about my constituents’ jobs. Does he agree that these questions about the constitution are not new? By definition under our constitution the thing that wins …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 11 Mar 2019
Exiting the European Union

"What we have learned this evening is that the withdrawal agreement is still intact, the backstop is still in place and, as my hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff South and Penarth (Stephen Doughty) pointed out, the Government have given themselves little or no real extra powers in this whole …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 26 Feb 2019
Leaving the European Union

"As we speak, the Prime Minister’s Government are preparing to apply tariffs to basic food items such as cheese and meat, the price of which will be paid by families in this country who have suffered enough. Is this really the Tory party that the Prime Minister thought she would …..."
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Written Question
Civil Servants: EEA Nationals
Friday 11th January 2019

Asked by: Alison McGovern (Labour - Birkenhead)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to change paragraph 1.20 of the civil service nationality rules guidance in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal.

Answered by David Lidington

There are currently no plans to change paragraph 1.20 of the Civil Service Nationality Rules guidance in the unlikely scenario that the UK leaves the EU without a deal. EEA nationals who are civil servants on exit day will be able to continue to be civil servants; and it will continue to be possible for the civil service to recruit EEA nationals.