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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 08 Jan 2020
European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill

"Nobody is disputing that we can pass laws while a member of the EU as long as the EU allows us to. It is quite simple...."
Lord Redwood - View Speech

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 08 Jan 2020
European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill

"I am very much in favour of clause 38, which reasserts our sovereignty. If the European Union wanted to legislate punitively against us during the implementation period, can I take it from the Minister that we would use this clause to prevent such legislation from having effect?..."
Lord Redwood - View Speech

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 08 Jan 2020
European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill

"Let me elucidate the point. I sometimes think the Opposition do not seem to understand that we are in the WTO through the EU anyway. The whole EU is governed by WTO rules and the WTO court, yet the Opposition say that we would sacrifice control by going into the …..."
Lord Redwood - View Speech

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 08 Jan 2020
European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill

"Clause 38 is welcome. I pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Stone (Sir William Cash) for being one of the co-authors of that excellent piece of Government-proposed legislation. I also support the Minister in opposing various new clauses and amendments before us.

It seems to come down …..."
Lord Redwood - View Speech

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 08 Jan 2020
European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill

"My right hon. Friend puts it brilliantly; that is exactly the kind of limitation of our sovereign power, and of our freedom to make decisions that please our electors, that I have been talking about. It is quite important, given the history of this debate.

Turning to the Scottish nationalists, …..."
Lord Redwood - View Speech

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 08 Jan 2020
European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill

"Good advice, but I am trying to address the SNP point related to its proposals on how we treat devolved government fairly and whether we are listening properly to Scotland. I think that we are very much listening to Scotland, but we have to understand that the matter of the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 08 Jan 2020
European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill

"I gently remind the hon. Member that during the election senior Labour people argued passionately that it was fine for a leave voter to vote Labour and that they were not all in favour of what he has just said, so I do not think he can say that in …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 21 Oct 2019
Northern Ireland: Restoring Devolution

"The DUP is understandably very unhappy about the customs and single market arrangements in the agreement, so will the Government table a free trade agreement and get on with it, because that would help?..."
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Written Question
Northern Ireland Office: EU Action
Friday 1st July 2016

Asked by: Lord Redwood (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Northern Ireland Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, which EU (a) legislative and (b) other proposals her Department is leading negotiations on for the Government in the Council of the EU.

Answered by Ben Wallace

The Department is not responsible for leading any negotiations at the EU Council.

Written Question
Northern Ireland Office: EU Law
Friday 1st July 2016

Asked by: Lord Redwood (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Northern Ireland Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what EU directives related to her Department's responsibilities are awaiting transposition into UK law.

Answered by Ben Wallace

There are no EU directives related to the Department’s responsibilities awaiting transposition into UK law.