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Written Question
Fisheries: Norway
Monday 12th December 2016

Asked by: Melanie Onn (Labour - Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes)

Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :

To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, whether he discussed the future of the UK fishing industry with the Norwegian Foreign Minister during his recent visit to the UK.

Answered by David Jones

We have already started a wide-ranging programme of engagement in order to build a national consensus, listening to organisations, institutions and companies in as many sectors as possible to establish their priorities and understand their concerns, and also to hear what they think the solutions could be. These discussions will inform our negotiating position; it would not be in the national interest to give a running commentary.

Written Question
Seafood: Overseas Trade
Monday 12th December 2016

Asked by: Melanie Onn (Labour - Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes)

Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :

To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, whether he had discussions on the potential effect of tariffs on the seafood trade between Britain and Norway with the Norwegian Foreign Minister during his recent visit to the UK.

Answered by David Jones

The Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union met with the Norwegian Foreign Minister on 5 December. They discussed our work towards an orderly withdrawal of the UK from the EU.

Speech in Westminster Hall - Mon 17 Oct 2016
UK Exit from the European Union

"May I double-check what the hon. Gentleman said about the great repeal Bill? I think he said that, when it comes before Parliament, some areas of European law may well be negotiated away—that when we bring things over from European legislation, some areas of them may well be dropped...."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Mon 17 Oct 2016
UK Exit from the European Union

"This has been an unexpectedly exciting debate that has raised some of the long-standing issues on both sides, and the wounds of those issues will not easily be healed without some answers.

I will focus my comments on the petition that calls for an immediate repeal of the European Communities …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Mon 17 Oct 2016
UK Exit from the European Union

"I could not agree more with my hon. Friend. He has mentioned precisely the concerns that led me to introduce my Bill.

The other way in which the European Union has helped to secure and protect the rights of British workers is through the courts. A huge number of rulings …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Mon 17 Oct 2016
UK Exit from the European Union

"We must be careful not to paint all business in that way. However, the reality is that throughout the whole discourse on the referendum, workers’ rights have been portrayed as red tape and therefore cumbersome things that people would want to do away with. Companies’ bottom line is also an …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Mon 17 Oct 2016
UK Exit from the European Union

"That was not the first time the tampon tax issue had been brought to the House’s attention. If women’s issues and rights were put at the heart of every single policy at the outset of negotiations on them with the EU, we would not have been in that position in …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Mon 17 Oct 2016
UK Exit from the European Union

"On the point about bringing forward legislation and amendments to ensure that law will be functional, does that not risk opening the gates to other areas of legislation and going beyond making the law functional in this country? It could put some of our legislation at risk from further debate …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 10 Oct 2016
Next Steps in Leaving the European Union

"Some UK legislation for workers goes further than EU rules, but not all of it. It is also clear that European Court judgments have been far more worker-friendly than those in our own tribunals, and certainly more friendly than this Government. If the Government seriously intend to protect workers’ rights, …..."
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