Oral Answers to Questions

Jeremy Lefroy Excerpts

Thursday 14th December 2017 Commons Chamber

[Mr Davis]

As usual, the right hon. Gentleman takes a partial quote and tries to make something of it. I have said, in terms, that the withdrawal agreement will be a treaty, and treaties are binding on this country. That is what we intend. I also said, in the interview to which I think he is referring, that it is our intention, whatever happens, to protect the status of Northern Ireland, both in terms of its being within the United Kingdom and in terms of protecting the status of the border as being invisible as it is now. It would be very good if the right hon. Gentleman did not misrepresent what I have said.

[Jeremy Lefroy (Stafford) (Con)]

Will the negotiations on the implementation period include matters to do with the UK’s membership of the agencies of the European Union?

[Mr Davis]

I think it is unlikely that they will continue beyond the period of departure in March 2019. That is something that we have accepted from the beginning.