Brexit: Green Paper

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town Excerpts

Monday 9th January 2017 Lords Chamber

[Lord Pearson of Rannoch]

My Lords—

[Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town (Lab)]

My Lords—

[Lord Taylor of Holbeach (Con)]

My Lords, I think that it is the turn of the Labour Benches.

[Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town]

My Lords, the Minister needs to offer two things to the House. The first is perhaps that he will no longer do what some of his colleagues do. The Secretary of State, Liz Truss, refused to appear before the Joint Committee on Human Rights looking at Brexit, a refusal that the committee described as unacceptable. I hope that the Minister will come to the House with not just the final vote that will happen when Article 50 is triggered, but the detail of what the Government are seeking to achieve out of negotiations when we leave the European Union.

[Lord Bridges of Headley]

I can certainly assure the noble Baroness that it remains the Government’s intention to build as strong a national consensus as possible around our negotiation position, to treat this House and the other place with the respect they deserve as the negotiations continue, and to give the information required for scrutiny to be meaningful and worth while.