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Written Question
Coordination Committee
Tuesday 6th March 2018

Asked by: Owen Smith (Labour - Pontypridd)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when the Conservative–DUP coordination committee last met to discuss future Government business; and whether she plans to publish details and minutes of such meetings.

Answered by David Lidington

The Coordination Committee last met on 29 January 2018 and will meet again soon. The agendas and summaries of these meetings are regularly published on Gov.uk:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/conservative-and-dup-agreement-and-uk-government-financial-support-for-northern-ireland

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 07 Feb 2018
Oral Answers to Questions

"I too welcome the Secretary of State and the Under-Secretary. I look forward to working with them and of course wish the Secretary of State’s predecessor a speedy recovery.

We understand that the Secretary of State will not want to give a running commentary on the talks, but there is …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 07 Feb 2018
Oral Answers to Questions

"And the right hon. Lady will know that Northern Ireland did have a vote in the Assembly on this issue in November last year. It voted in favour of taking forward marriage equality for Northern Ireland, so she could show leadership on this issue and respect devolution, and potentially bring …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 20 Dec 2017
Oral Answers to Questions

"As you know, Mr Speaker, agriculture is more important in Northern Ireland than in any other part of the UK, and Northern Ireland is more reliant on EU farm payments than any other part of the UK, so 30,000 Ulster farmers need certainty about what Brexit is going to mean …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 20 Dec 2017
Oral Answers to Questions

"That cannot be correct. It cannot be right both that we will be under exactly the same EU rules and regulations, which is what the Prime Minister said in Florence, and that we will be leaving the common agricultural policy. If it is true that we are leaving the common …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 14 Mar 2017
European Council

"A moment ago, the Prime Minister repeated without a hint of irony or comedy that she is encouraging the European Union to complete the single market in services because that is in our national interest. Will she explain to the House and to the country how it is not in …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 08 Feb 2017
Oral Answers to Questions

"Does the Prime Minister agree with the director general of the World Trade Organisation that if Britain were to leave the EU on WTO terms, it would cost £9 billion in lost trade each year?..."
Owen Smith - View Speech

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 06 Feb 2017
Informal European Council

"The summit began with the German Chancellor admonishing the Prime Minister for the threat to undercut our European neighbours—the alternative economic model the Prime Minister talked about at Lancaster House. Could she confirm that she is still threatening to cut corporation tax in a race to the bottom, and could …..."
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Written Question
Productivity: Young People
Thursday 15th October 2015

Asked by: Owen Smith (Labour - Pontypridd)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment the Government has made of the rates of productivity of young employed people in the UK.

Answered by Rob Wilson

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 29 Jun 2015
Tunisia, and European Council

"I should like to add my deep condolences to those of the Prime Minister and my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Camberwell and Peckham (Ms Harman) to all those who have been affected by what has happened in Tunisia, many of whom were Welsh. Will the Prime …..."
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