Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between David Davis and Nick Thomas-Symonds

Thursday 20th October 2016 Commons Chamber

[Mr Davis]

I will indeed. We have been studying in some detail the effect on integrated manufacturing operations across borders to ensure that they are not jeopardised, whatever the outcome.

[Nick Thomas-Symonds (Torfaen) (Lab)]

In a written answer to me yesterday, the Secretary of State for Wales talked about the full engagement of the devolved Administrations in Brexit negotiations. The best way to protect Wales’s interests would be to put the First Minister in the Government’s negotiating team. What good reason is there not to do so?

[Mr Davis]

I met the First Minister and the Finance Minister on Tuesday to talk about Wales’s interests. That is how we will do it.

Exiting the European Union

Debate between David Davis and Nick Thomas-Symonds

Monday 5th September 2016 Commons Chamber

[Mr Davis]

That is a good point, and we are on it already. The opportunities side of the spreadsheet, as my hon. Friend puts it, is integral to the process. We have already had reports on some of them, but we are also challenging some of the points that have come back to us because of a degree of special pleading. It takes a little longer than just asking the question, but yes, we are doing what my hon. Friend suggests.

[Nick Thomas-Symonds (Torfaen) (Lab)]

In June, Vote Leave issued an unequivocal letter, co-signed by the Foreign Secretary, saying that the levels of funding that constituencies such as mine currently receive from the European social fund would continue post-Brexit. Will the Secretary of State repeat that guarantee from the Dispatch Box today, or was that letter simply worthless?