Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Debate

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Eleanor Laing

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Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership

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Mon 13th Jul 2015
House of Commons
Thursday 9th July 2015

(8 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh Portrait Ms Ahmed-Sheikh
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I appreciate that you are able to offer some kind of comfort, but in yesterday’s vote, when there was an amendment for a specific opt-out from TTIP for the NHS, we were defeated. You supported us in the motion—

Eleanor Laing Portrait Madam Deputy Speaker (Mrs Eleanor Laing)
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Order. I let the hon. Lady get away with it the first time, but now that she has done it a second time, I must tell her that she must not address the Minister as “you”. In the Chamber, “you” means the Chair. The Minister is the Minister.

Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh Portrait Ms Ahmed-Sheikh
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I apologise, Madam Deputy Speaker.

The Minister will have noted that the proposal for a specific opt-out was defeated in yesterday’s vote. How can he be so sure that we will be protected in any future agreement, and can we be assured that we will have an opportunity to debate it?

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