EU Referendum: Civil Service Guidance Debate
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Jonathan Edwards
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EU Referendum: Civil Service Guidance
Jonathan Edwards Excerpts(8 years, 8 months ago)
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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.
This information is provided by Parallel Parliament and does not comprise part of the offical record
Matthew Hancock
It will not have any implications for facts, because factual briefing and fact-checking is allowed to be done by civil servants.
Jonathan Edwards (Carmarthen East and Dinefwr) (PC)
The civil service, the state broadcaster and the central bank were all central players in project fear 1 in Scotland. Is it therefore naive not to expect the use of the same public assets on project fear 2 and the EU referendum?
Matthew Hancock
I do not understand the premise of the question, because we are putting forward the positive case for remaining in a reformed European Union.