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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 23 Oct 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"Will the Minister confirm that, for the no-deal preparations in relation to the port of Portsmouth, three companies of soldiers and 180 police are on standby? If that is correct, how many more troops and police have been put on standby for remaining ports around the country?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 22 Oct 2019
European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill

"First, it is worth noting that this House had more time to debate the Wild Animals in Circuses Act 2019, which affected 19 animals, than we will have on this particular Bill. The Institute for Government has said that the timetable appears to have been deliberately “designed to frustrate… scrutiny”. …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 21 Oct 2019
Preparations for Leaving the European Union

"Will the Minister confirm that, in a no-deal scenario, no patient will have their treatment delayed or cancelled if they are dependent on radioisotopes?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Sat 19 Oct 2019
Prime Minister’s Statement

"Would the Prime Minister agree to pass an Act making it unlawful for us to leave at the end of the transition phase without a deal?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 14 Oct 2019
Debate on the Address

"How does the Prime Minister think young people’s education opportunities are going to be affected, given that the aerospace, chemicals and food and drink industries’ associations have written to him saying that the manufacturing sector is going to be badly damaged by his deal? Those industries employ more than 1 …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 08 Oct 2019
Preparations for Leaving the EU

"The Government’s business readiness fund, which sets aside just £15 million to help businesses, will be more than washed away by the cost to business of—according to the Financial Times—an extra £15 billion, 1,000 times more. Is this not just another example of the Prime Minister’s attitude towards business?..."
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Written Question
Department for Exiting the European Union: Brexit
Monday 7th October 2019

Asked by: Tom Brake (Liberal Democrat - Carshalton and Wallington)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to Operation Yellowhammer, what his Department's base case planning assumptions were before that document was published.

Answered by Kevin Foster

Yellowhammer has always considered the reasonable worst case scenario and never a ‘base’ or ‘central’ scenario. This was confirmed in the NAO report, published in March 2019, which said that in Operation Yellowhammer “Departments are working on the basis of a reasonable worst case scenario.” Some iterations of the Reasonable worst case scenario planning assumptions have used the words ‘base scenario’ as a subtitle for the contextual assumptions, outlining the background to a no-deal brexit.

Yellowhammer reasonable worst case planning assumptions are kept under review and updated planning assumptions for exiting the European Union without a deal will be published in due course.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 03 Oct 2019
Brexit Negotiations

"I commend the Prime Minister for rare consistency; when he said “f*** business” he really meant it. Manufacturing Northern Ireland has described his proposals as an “existential threat” and as being “thrown under the bus”. Can he confirm which businesses in Northern Ireland he consulted on his proposals and which …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 25 Sep 2019
Prime Minister's Update

"No contrition, no shame and no apology for breaking the law—does the Prime Minister understand why many people in this country think he is unfit to be our Prime Minister?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 25 Sep 2019
Brexit Readiness: Operation Yellowhammer

"How will the British people be safer than ever before if we lose access to EU crime-fighting databases in a no-deal scenario?..."
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