Brexit Negotiations Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Brexit Negotiations

Alison Thewliss Excerpts
Monday 11th December 2017

(6 years, 4 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Theresa May Portrait The Prime Minister
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My hon. Friend makes a very important point. We will be able to strike those trade deals around the world, and Northern Ireland will benefit from those trade deals, as will the rest of the UK.

Alison Thewliss Portrait Alison Thewliss (Glasgow Central) (SNP)
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In answer to a question I asked about the tampon tax, the Financial Secretary to the Treasury said that the Government continue to press for a VAT zero rate for women’s sanitary products at EU level. If the Government cannot negotiate, in two years, a zero rate for the tampon tax, what hope do we have of a trade deal?

Theresa May Portrait The Prime Minister
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We are leaving the European Union and we will be able to make decisions of that sort for ourselves in future.