EU Referendum: Civil Service Guidance Debate
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Andrew Bridgen
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EU Referendum: Civil Service Guidance
Andrew Bridgen Excerpts(8 years, 9 months ago)
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Urgent Questions are proposed each morning by backbench MPs, and up to two may be selected each day by the Speaker. Chosen Urgent Questions are announced 30 minutes before Parliament sits each day.
Each Urgent Question requires a Government Minister to give a response on the debate topic.
This information is provided by Parallel Parliament and does not comprise part of the offical record
Matthew Hancock
There will be a campaign to leave, as well, and I hope that this debate continues so that by 23 June everybody feels fully informed.
Andrew Bridgen (North West Leicestershire) (Con)
Will the Minister tell the House how the guidance rules would have affected the advice given to the Prime Minister by Sir Lynton Crosby when he said that the renegotiations were not good enough, that they should be rejected at the European Council and that proper renegotiations should be carried out and the referendum delayed until 2017? Clearly, in that situation, the adviser was not supporting the Government line at all.
Matthew Hancock
Sir Lynton Crosby is many things, but he is not a civil servant.