Oral Answers to Questions

Angela Crawley Excerpts

Wednesday 11th January 2023 Commons Chamber

[Marion Fellows (Motherwell and Wishaw) (SNP)]

1. Whether he has made a recent assessment of the impact of the UK leaving the European Union on Scotland.

[Angela Crawley (Lanark and Hamilton East) (SNP)]

8. Whether he has made a recent assessment of the impact of the UK leaving the European Union on Scotland.

[Martyn Day (Linlithgow and East Falkirk) (SNP)]

9. Whether he has made a recent assessment of the impact of the UK leaving the European Union on Scotland.

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[Mr Jack]

The hon. Lady quotes statistics for the two years following Brexit, but those of course are two years where we had other factors to take into account, not only covid and many lockdowns across Europe, but the illegal war in Ukraine. In the first two quarters of 2022, the United Kingdom did more trade with the European Union than it did in any quarter when we were members of the European Union.

[Angela Crawley]

Brexit has cost the UK £40 billion a year in tax revenue. That would be enough to fill the black hole caused by the Tory mini-Budget, along with yet another round of Tory austerity. Scotland did not vote for Brexit, for this Government, the last one or the one before that, so does the Secretary of State think it is right that Scotland should suffer due to his party’s extreme Brexit ideology?

[Mr Jack]

This Government respect democracy. We respect the outcome of referendums. There was a referendum in 2014 on Scottish independence. We respected the result; the Scottish National party has not. In 2016, the United Kingdom, which we are all part of, voted to leave the European Union, and we delivered on that.