Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Antoinette Sandbach and Hannah Bardell

Thursday 3rd May 2018 Commons Chamber

[Antoinette Sandbach (Eddisbury) (Con)]

6. What recent progress he has made on negotiations on the UK leaving the EU.

[Hannah Bardell (Livingston) (SNP)]

7. What recent progress he has made on negotiating the UK’s exit from the EU.

English Votes on English Laws

Debate between Antoinette Sandbach and Hannah Bardell

Tuesday 7th July 2015 Commons Chamber

[Hannah Bardell (Livingston) (SNP)]

rose—

[Antoinette Sandbach]

I am going to make some progress.

The Presiding Officer in the Welsh Assembly is very capable of deciding and certifying whether or not a matter is devolved. I have great confidence that the Speaker of this House would be able to do the same without any suggestion that that role has been politicised. I find it extraordinary that it is suggested that the role of Presiding Officer in the Welsh Assembly, or indeed in the Scottish Parliament, is politicised, as legislative consent motions and matters of legislative competence are dealt with regularly. I have no doubt that once the changes in this House have been allowed to bed in, the same process will apply here, with the full confidence of the Speaker.