Business of the House Debate

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Department: Leader of the House

Business of the House

Angus Brendan MacNeil Excerpts
Tuesday 26th March 2019

(5 years, 8 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Andrea Leadsom Portrait Andrea Leadsom
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As the hon. Lady will know, I have announced the dates for the Easter recess, but recess dates are always announced subject to the progress of business. We will need time in the House either to find a way forward or to pass the withdrawal agreement Bill, and I think the country will rightly expect Parliament to be working flat out in either scenario. Further announcements on future recess dates will be made in due course in the usual way.

Angus Brendan MacNeil Portrait Angus Brendan MacNeil (Na h-Eileanan an Iar) (SNP)
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In answering my hon. Friend the Member for Perth and North Perthshire (Pete Wishart), the Leader of the House said that anything the House proposed had to be negotiable and deliverable before the Government could support it. Tomorrow, with cross-party colleagues, I will be bringing forward an amendment on the revocation of article 50 to avoid a no-deal Brexit. Given that revocation has the virtue of requiring no negotiation and is deliverable, will she confirm that were that to be passed in an indicative vote tomorrow, she would respect that vote?

Andrea Leadsom Portrait Andrea Leadsom
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We will wait to see what the indicative votes are on tomorrow before deciding how to respond.