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Commons Chamber
Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords]
Report stage - Tue 19 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Iain Duncan Smith (Con - Chingford and Woodford Green) It seeks to ensure appropriate parliamentary scrutiny of the UK’s position toward the accession of economies - Speech Link
2: Anthony Mangnall (Con - Totnes) Some of us have been arguing for parliamentary scrutiny of trade deals for the last four years. - Speech Link
3: None The UK’s procedures already allow for some parliamentary scrutiny. - Speech Link
4: Sarah Green (LD - Chesham and Amersham) We need proper parliamentary scrutiny of trade deals, and I ask the Government to ensure that it happens - Speech Link
5: Gareth Thomas (LAB - Harrow West) Our amendments and new clauses seek to address the weak arrangements for parliamentary scrutiny of trade - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Consideration of Lords amendments - Mon 18 Mar 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Michael Tomlinson (Con - Mid Dorset and North Poole) While creating that deterrent, it is important that the Government take decisive action also to deter - Speech Link
2: Stephen Kinnock (Lab - Aberavon) I know that he is very taken with parliamentary sovereignty, and that is very important, but parliamentary - Speech Link
3: None I do not think the parliamentary scrutiny of the Bill and its associated treaty has been very satisfactory - Speech Link
4: Michael Tomlinson (Con - Mid Dorset and North Poole) It is supported and backed by the EU to the tune of €22 million and has been warmly welcomed by the EU - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 14 Mar 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) To be honest, I do not want to hear “as parliamentary time allows” when there is an abundance of it. - Speech Link
2: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) I am sure that we would welcome further scrutiny of it, because I think it is a sound policy. - Speech Link
3: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) It is a very important issue for the Government, and I welcome further scrutiny of it. - Speech Link
4: Michael Shanks (Lab - Rutherglen and Hamilton West) and as a former teacher of politics, I think that bringing pupils to this place to see politics in action - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Asylum and Migration - Thu 14 Mar 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North) Ministers should not need to be reminded that parliamentary scrutiny is not a disposable luxury. - Speech Link
2: Priti Patel (Con - Witham) The Home Office might have legal action taken against it, such as on the handling of a voluntary return - Speech Link
3: Priti Patel (Con - Witham) Friend mentions the EU—that would have been the Commission in particular. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 14 Mar 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) What recent assessment he has made of the impact of the UK’s departure from the EU on food prices in - Speech Link
2: Sheryll Murray (Con - South East Cornwall) I chair the all-party parliamentary group on fisheries. - Speech Link
3: Mark Spencer (Con - Sherwood) activities will fall into the scope of the legislation will need to be evidence-based and subject to parliamentary - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill
Report stage - Wed 13 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Bassam of Brighton (Lab - Life peer) While we generally support parliamentary scrutiny of the Executive and their decisions, we are not convinced - Speech Link
2: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) Yet is has undertaken no hard or soft enforcement and did not include it in its recent scrutiny of the - Speech Link
3: None We are grateful for the committee’s scrutiny and agree that the higher level of parliamentary scrutiny - Speech Link
4: None Regulations” Member’s explanatory statement This amendment, and my other amendment to clause 232, changes the parliamentary - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill
Report stage - Mon 11 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) Secondly, as many noble Lords have noted, the Digital Markets Act came into force in the EU. - Speech Link
2: None corporate governance, a lack of accountability—which has been referred to many times in the course of scrutiny - Speech Link
3: None I have seen some of these reviews and how they can be gutted of any meaningful, genuine, scrutiny, and - Speech Link
4: Lord Offord of Garvel (Con - Life peer) The CMA has also engaged constructively with parliamentary committees to support their scrutiny of its - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Report stage - Wed 06 Mar 2024
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: None As I set out in Committee, it is important that the Government take decisive action to deter adults from - Speech Link
2: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (Lab - Life peer) It would simply ensure another level of scrutiny and security when deciding whether to comply with an - Speech Link
3: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) How is that the action of a responsible Government? - Speech Link
4: None Will they commit to taking action to put this in line with what they claim is their position and the - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Wed 06 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Peter Bottomley (Con - Worthing West) town—none of the local councillors was judged suitable to be put on the shortlist for selection as the parliamentary - Speech Link
2: Stewart Hosie (SNP - Dundee East) as an example; we hear the rhetoric and hyperbole of the Budget statement, but it rarely stands any scrutiny - Speech Link
3: John Stevenson (Con - Carlisle) That is levelling up in action. - Speech Link
4: Judith Cummins (Lab - Bradford South) Every year I have called for urgent action to prevent the collapse of our national health service, and - Speech Link
5: Kevin Foster (Con - Torbay) Indeed, they are lower than the G7 and the EU average. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Data Protection Act 2018 (Amendment of Schedule 2 Exemptions) Regulations 2024 - Tue 05 Mar 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) Schedule 2 Exemptions) Regulations 2024.Relevant document: 13th Report from the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hamwee (LD - Life peer) The Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee reports that it made three points, of which one, on oversight - Speech Link
3: None My noble friend asked about transparency in future and the report of the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny - Speech Link
4: None conflict between the DPA 2018 and the UK GDPR, the DPA 2018 will now take precedence —the opposite of what parliamentary - Speech Link
5: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) and prevent sham marriages and protect the integrity of ongoing immigration removal and enforcement action - Speech Link