Oral Answers to Questions

Gavin Newlands Excerpts

Wednesday 26th April 2017 Commons Chamber

[Margaret Ferrier (Rutherglen and Hamilton West) (SNP)]

5. What assessment he has made of the potential effect of provisions of the great repeal Bill on Wales’s devolved competences.

[Gavin Newlands (Paisley and Renfrewshire North) (SNP)]

11. What assessment he has made of the potential effect of provisions of the great repeal Bill on Wales’s devolved competences.

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[Alun Cairns]

As powers are repatriated from the EU, it is vital that we provide industry and communities with as much certainty and security as possible. We need to protect the integrity of the UK market, and we need to work with the devolved Administrations to construct common standards and common frameworks to support that single market.

[Gavin Newlands]

After a decade of Tory rule in Westminster, it is clear that the Government have given up on Wales. They have refused to devolve the responsibility for rail infrastructure, as both Plaid Cymru and the Silk commission suggested, and in paragraph 4.2 of the great repeal Bill White Paper they have pledged to snatch the transport powers currently held by Brussels away from the people of Wales. Will the Secretary of State tell us what exactly he is doing to ensure that the people of Wales, and their interests, are not forgotten?