Eurotunnel: Payment Debate
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Alison Thewliss
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(5 years, 8 months ago)
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Matt Hancock
The settlement is £33 million. Of course, there are lawyers, and legal time was also needed inside the Department. That happens all the time in order to try to make sure that we can keep people safe, which is the whole purpose of this exercise.
Alison Thewliss (Glasgow Central) (SNP)
The reality is that the Secretary of State is engaged in deflection. We are now in a situation where this country risks running out of vital medicines for each and every one of our constituents because of this Government’s relentless pursuit of a no-deal hard Brexit that will ruin this country. Is it not the case that this money that we are having to pay out is emblematic of the chaos in this Government and the incompetence of this Government and that our constituents will go without medicine because they cannot get their act together?
Matt Hancock
If the hon. Lady really, really believes what she just said, it is incumbent on her to vote for the deal.