No-deal EU Exit Preparations

Hywel Williams Excerpts
Wednesday 20th March 2019

(5 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Chris Heaton-Harris Portrait Chris Heaton-Harris
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I would assume that a statutory instrument would do that particular piece of work.

Hywel Williams Portrait Hywel Williams (Arfon) (PC)
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Government expenditure on no-deal preparations can be expressed as a sum of £63 per person per annum for three years. Wales’s net benefit from the EU budget is £79 per person per year. Which does the Minister consider to represent good value?

Chris Heaton-Harris Portrait Chris Heaton-Harris
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I think preparing the country for every eventuality that this Parliament has voted for is good value for money.