Northern Ireland Protocol: Implementation Proposals Debate

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Northern Ireland Protocol: Implementation Proposals

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Towns Fund
Wednesday 18th November 2020

(3 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Robin Walker Portrait Mr Walker
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A number of commitments have already been made on a finance Bill. I have undertaken to discuss this issue further with Treasury Ministers, and I will.

Greg Smith Portrait Greg Smith (Buckingham) (Con)
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Does my hon. Friend agree that it is in fact because of the necessary measures brought forward by the Government in the United Kingdom Internal Market Bill that there will be legal certainty around the integrity of our Union at the end of the transition and not, as Opposition Members have argued, the other way round?

Robin Walker Portrait Mr Walker
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Yes, I wholly agree. It is crucial that we provide that certainty. I have heard time and time again from Northern Ireland businesses about the importance of that certainty to their biggest single market: the rest of the UK. We must deliver on that as we deliver on the wider protocol.

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