Exiting the EU: Costs Debate

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Department: HM Treasury

Exiting the EU: Costs

Jonathan Djanogly Excerpts
Wednesday 29th November 2017

(6 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Elizabeth Truss Portrait Elizabeth Truss
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The hon. Lady is not correct about that. The OBR has made predictions on EU payments and those are included in the Budget. Indeed, that was raised by my hon. Friend the Member for North East Somerset (Mr Rees-Mogg) in the Budget debate last week.

Jonathan Djanogly Portrait Mr Jonathan Djanogly (Huntingdon) (Con)
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Will the Chief Secretary please confirm that any payments that are offered will be itemised, so that Parliament can understand the constitution of the payment and put it into the context of any likely conditioning that may be required in any deal on the future relationship?

Elizabeth Truss Portrait Elizabeth Truss
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I assure my hon. Friend that the payments that will potentially be made—as we have discussed, nothing is agreed until everything is agreed—will absolutely provide value for money.