Article 50

Margaret Ferrier Excerpts
Tuesday 24th January 2017

(7 years, 3 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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David Davis Portrait Mr Davis
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I agree.

Margaret Ferrier Portrait Margaret Ferrier (Rutherglen and Hamilton West) (SNP)
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Today’s judgment states that, notwithstanding new legislative constraints,

“withdrawal from the EU will enhance the devolved competence”.

I asked the Secretary of State this same question just last week and was dismayed to find that he was able to provide only his presumptions. Can he now provide concrete examples of which types of powers will be devolved to the devolved Administrations, following our exit from the European Union?

David Davis Portrait Mr Davis
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I rather suspect that the hon. Lady misquotes me from last week. What I said, or what I should have said, was that some elements of the powers coming back from the European Union will go to the devolved Administrations, that some will stay in the centre, but for a number we are going to have to debate the matter and decide. That will happen in the first instance in the Joint Ministerial Committee and then at Cabinet.