Parliamentary Scrutiny of Leaving the EU

Debate between Kwasi Kwarteng and Stephen Gethins

Wednesday 12th October 2016 Commons Chamber

[Stephen Gethins]

My hon. Friend raises a very good point. Funding is a significant concern for fishermen, farmers, universities and others who rely on our relationship with the European Union. We are dealing with an act of negligence from the Government, who are providing us with no detail; that builds on an act of gross irresponsibility by the Vote Leave campaign.

[Kwasi Kwarteng (Spelthorne) (Con)]

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

[Stephen Gethins]

If you can answer for that act of gross irresponsibility, I will give way.

[Kwasi Kwarteng]

I am very grateful. The hon. Gentleman has mentioned that his party produced a 600-page dossier ahead of the Scottish vote, but when asked which currency would be used under independence, it simply had no idea, nor any clue about the consequences of independence.

[Stephen Gethins]

That is remarkable. My right hon. Friend the Member for Gordon set up a fiscal commission working group to look into that, covering a whole range of arguments. I am sure we can make that available to the hon. Gentleman. We had all the details. There were two Nobel laureates on that group. How many Nobel laureates do the Government have? Zero. [Interruption.]