Oral Answers to Questions

Kirsten Oswald Excerpts

Wednesday 25th January 2017 Commons Chamber

[Alan Brown (Kilmarnock and Loudoun) (SNP)]

6. What assessment he has made of the potential effect on jobs in Wales of the UK leaving the EU single market.

[Kirsten Oswald (East Renfrewshire) (SNP)]

7. What assessment he has made of the potential effect on jobs in Wales of the UK leaving the EU single market.

[George Kerevan (East Lothian) (SNP)]

9. What assessment he has made of the potential effect on jobs in Wales of the UK leaving the EU single market.

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[Alun Cairns]

My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister was awaiting the document from the Welsh Government. It was received on Monday, and of course we will work through the details. It will be subject to discussion at the Joint Ministerial Committee on EU Negotiations—the right place for it to be considered and discussed—but much of the language around accessing the single market is not incompatible with what my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has said.

[Kirsten Oswald]

The Supreme Court ruling yesterday concluded that the Sewel convention was a convention and therefore not a matter on which it could rule. Our friends in Plaid Cymru are moving to table a legislative consent motion in the Welsh Parliament, and the Scottish Parliament will also vote on a legislative consent motion. Does the Secretary of State agree, in the spirit of democracy, that the devolved Governments are best placed to determine the future of the people living and working in our nations? [Interruption.]

[Mr Speaker]

Order. We would like to hear the reply.