Leaving the EU: Sectoral Impact Assessments Debate

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Department: Department for Exiting the European Union

Leaving the EU: Sectoral Impact Assessments

Hywel Williams Excerpts
Tuesday 28th November 2017

(6 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Urgent Questions are proposed each morning by backbench MPs, and up to two may be selected each day by the Speaker. Chosen Urgent Questions are announced 30 minutes before Parliament sits each day.

Each Urgent Question requires a Government Minister to give a response on the debate topic.

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Robin Walker Portrait Mr Walker
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Not that I am aware of.

Hywel Williams Portrait Hywel Williams (Arfon) (PC)
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What—[Interruption.] If I could have the Minister’s attention, what guidelines were provided to the officials editing the documents as to what should be excluded?

Robin Walker Portrait Mr Walker
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I have made it clear to the House that this information was pulled together from a range of documents. As I have also made clear, we have to ensure that commercially sensitive information, and information that would be prejudicial to the national interest, could not be at risk of being published. But this has been a process of ensuring that there is more information for the Committee, not less.