Debates between Emily Thornberry and Jonathan Djanogly during the 2019 Parliament

Tue 19th Jan 2021
Trade Bill
Commons Chamber

Consideration of Lords amendmentsPing Pong & Consideration of Lords amendments & Ping Pong & Ping Pong: House of Commons

Trade Bill

Debate between Emily Thornberry and Jonathan Djanogly
Consideration of Lords amendments & Ping Pong & Ping Pong: House of Commons
Tuesday 19th January 2021

(3 years, 3 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Jonathan Djanogly Portrait Mr Djanogly
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Will the right hon. Lady give way?

Emily Thornberry Portrait Emily Thornberry
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I will one more time and then no more.

Jonathan Djanogly Portrait Mr Djanogly
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Is not the situation at the moment that, effectively, the amount of scrutiny provided is at the whim of the Executive? If they want to give us hundreds of pages of Bill the day before we have to sign, they can do that. If they want to give another country a month for scrutiny, as with Japan, but us no time at all, they can do that. We need a system here.

Eleanor Laing Portrait Madam Deputy Speaker (Dame Eleanor Laing)
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Order. I do not think we should go much further down this line. I have 59 Back-Bench Members who wish to participate in this scrutiny now, so let us not go down the rabbit hole of scrutiny but stick to the purpose of the amendments before us.