EU Withdrawal Agreement Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

EU Withdrawal Agreement

Jim Shannon Excerpts
Wednesday 9th December 2020

(3 years, 4 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Michael Gove Portrait Michael Gove
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It is absolutely the case that the EU will be paying for it. I hope that while people from the EU’s agencies are in Northern Ireland, they will take advantage of Northern Ireland’s wonderful hospitality as well.

Jim Shannon Portrait Jim Shannon (Strangford) (DUP)
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The Democratic Unionist party has remained consistent that there must be no border down the Irish sea. Can the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster give me an assurance that in 2021, the year we mark the centenary of the Union, the good people of Strangford will have no impediment placed on them by Brussels to buying foodstuffs from fellow British citizens in England, Scotland and Wales?

Michael Gove Portrait Michael Gove
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Absolutely. The citizens of the beautiful Ards peninsula will continue to enjoy the rights that we uphold as shared UK citizens.