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Lords Chamber
Brexit: Withdrawal Agreement and Political Declaration - Thu 10 Jan 2019
Department for Exiting the European Union

Mentions:
1: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LDEM - Life peer) is a better start to addressing the deep social and economic divisions that allowed nationalism to breed - Speech Link
2: Lord Bowness (CB - Life peer) Even if we manage to deal with the legislation, can the Government ensure that we will not limit our - Speech Link
3: Lord Mancroft (CON - Excepted Hereditary) Only the Government can initiate repeals of or substantial amendments to that legislation, and as of - Speech Link
4: Earl of Liverpool (CON - Excepted Hereditary) The Government certainly has a mandate for it—the referendum, the repeal of the European Communities - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Brexit: Preparations and Negotiations - Mon 23 Jul 2018
Department for Exiting the European Union

Mentions:
1: Lord Callanan (CON - Life peer) reach a positive settlement for both the UK and the EU.Domestically, we continue to prepare the legislation - Speech Link
2: Lord Callanan (CON - Life peer) This model has the specific advantage of protecting UK-EU supply and value chains and the businesses - Speech Link
3: Lord Callanan (CON - Life peer) We will agree a reciprocal tariff formula, but we will not ask our EU partners to put in place specific - Speech Link
4: Lord Marlesford (CON - Life peer) into British legislation so there is a smooth transition. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Dangerous Dogs Act: Staffordshire Bull Terriers - Mon 16 Jul 2018
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Helen Jones (LAB - Warrington North) Is breed-specific legislation the right way to proceed? - Speech Link
2: Helen Jones (LAB - Warrington North) That is why the police have said in evidence that they are not prepared to move away from breed-specific - Speech Link
3: Neil Parish (CON - Tiverton and Honiton) If we said, “Let’s abolish all breed-specific legislation,” the next time a pit bull or any of the other - Speech Link
4: Jeremy Lefroy (CON - Stafford) Friend the Member for Tiverton and Honiton has said, the Dogs Trust has concerns about breed-specific - Speech Link
5: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (LAB - Life peer) , the RSPCA said that it believes breed-specific legislation—BSL—is ineffective in terms of public safety - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
European Union (Withdrawal) Bill
Committee: 9th sitting (Hansard - continued): House of Lords - Wed 21 Mar 2018
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: None retained EU law(1) An Act of the Scottish Parliament cannot modify, or confer power by subordinate legislation - Speech Link
2: Lord Keen of Elie (CON - Life peer) This is a crucial piece of legislation in the national interest. - Speech Link
3: Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale (LAB - Life peer) proposals.However, I want to make one specific point, in the interests of brevity and concentrating - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Exiting the European Union and Global Trade - Thu 06 Jul 2017
Department for International Trade

Mentions:
1: Liam Fox (CON - North Somerset) Let us take India as a specific example. - Speech Link
2: Liam Fox (CON - North Somerset) However, we trade freely with countries where we do not have a specific free trade agreement. - Speech Link
3: Barry Gardiner (LAB - Brent North) Therefore, European legislation currently in place will be converted into ordinary repealable legislation - Speech Link
4: Hannah Bardell (SNP - Livingston) to replace EU customs legislation. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Health, Social Care and Security - Wed 28 Jun 2017
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Diane Abbott (LAB - Hackney North and Stoke Newington) Are there gaps in the legislation, or is it catch-all and ineffective? - Speech Link
2: Diane Abbott (LAB - Hackney North and Stoke Newington) I note that there was no promise of further legislation on counter-terrorism. - Speech Link
3: Joanna Cherry (SNP - Edinburgh South West) legislation on the many changes to justice and home affairs, even though the Government have confirmed - Speech Link
4: Yvette Cooper (LAB - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) That means, too, that the great repeal Bill that the Government want to put forward can no longer be - Speech Link
5: David Hanson (LAB - Delyn) I want to know what plans they have to look at terrorism legislation as a matter of course. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Animal Welfare - Thu 30 Mar 2017
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Jim Cunningham (LAB - Coventry South) Importantly, the legislation is extremely weak and I support him in what he is trying to achieve. - Speech Link
2: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) Legislation has been changed by the devolved Administrations for their countries, and it is about time - Speech Link
3: David Amess (CON - Southend West) Its findings demonstrate the clear need for legislation to address the problem. - Speech Link
4: Simon Hart (CON - Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire) The responsibility must lie with breed societies and show organisers. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (LAB - Life peer) First, will he commit himself to maintaining all existing animal welfare legislation post-Brexit? - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 09 Mar 2017
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: David Lidington (CON - Aylesbury) We are not in a position to make an announcement yet.I cannot be specific about a date for a debate on - Speech Link
2: David Lidington (CON - Aylesbury) Legislation will be brought forward at the appropriate time later this year. - Speech Link
3: Mark Durkan (SDLP - Foyle) House tell us about the role and locus of his office in the preparation and passage of the great repeal - Speech Link
4: David Lidington (CON - Aylesbury) My office will be involved, and I will be involved in the Cabinet Committee that reviews that legislation - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Leaving the EU: Animal Welfare Standards in Farming - Tue 24 Jan 2017
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Theresa Villiers (CON - Chipping Barnet) animal welfare rules are part of European law and are contained in more than 40 different pieces of legislation - Speech Link
2: Lisa Cameron (SNP - East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow) We expect that the devolution of animal welfare legislation to the Scottish Parliament will continue. - Speech Link
3: Paul Monaghan (SNP - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross) currently have policy responsibility is derived from EU legislation. - Speech Link
4: George Eustice (CON - Camborne and Redruth) I declare an interest: my brother has a pig farm, and raises a rare breed of outdoor pig. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Leaving the EU: the Rural Economy - Tue 17 Jan 2017
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Andrea Leadsom (CON - South Northamptonshire) The great repeal Bill will transpose the body of EU legislation into UK law. - Speech Link
2: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) will not be covered by the great repeal Bill? - Speech Link
3: Mary Creagh (LAB - Wakefield) Our Committee discovered that copying EU legislation into UK law will not be enough for up to a third - Speech Link