EU Exit Negotiations Debate

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Antoinette Sandbach

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EU Exit Negotiations

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Tax Avoidance and Evasion
Monday 13th November 2017

(7 years ago)

Commons Chamber
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David Davis Portrait Mr Davis
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Clearly the hon. Gentleman was not listening to my answer to the previous question. To deliver Brexit, this House will deal with at least 10 pieces of primary legislation. That is hardly denying Parliament a say in events.

Antoinette Sandbach Portrait Antoinette Sandbach (Eddisbury) (Con)
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Will the Secretary of State clarify how, if the agreement happens only on the very last day in March and the Bill, which is intended to ensure we have a meaningful vote, comes forward after that date, the vote on it will be in any sense meaningful?

David Davis Portrait Mr Davis
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When we had an urgent question on that about two weeks ago, I reiterated to the House the statement of my right hon. Friend the Member for Clwyd West (Mr Jones), the former Minister of State for Exiting the European Union, in which he said that a meaningful vote is one that allows people to say whether they want or do not want the deal.

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