Leaving the EU: Sectoral Impact Assessments Debate

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Stephen Timms

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Leaving the EU: Sectoral Impact Assessments

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Tuesday 28th November 2017

(6 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Robin Walker Portrait Mr Walker
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My right hon. Friend makes an interesting suggestion. I would say that the proceedings of this House—certainly as they are reported by the press—are sometimes of great interest to our continental colleagues, but I do take his point.

Stephen Timms Portrait Stephen Timms (East Ham) (Lab)
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The Department has handed over some 850 pages, but the Minister has made it clear that some information has been withheld. If that additional material had also been handed over, how many pages would that have been? Would it be another couple of hundred, more or less, or has the information not actually been compiled?

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The right hon. Gentleman asks a hypothetical question to which I am afraid that I do not have an answer.

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