Future Relationship with the EU Debate

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Department: HM Treasury

Future Relationship with the EU

Lia Nici Excerpts
Thursday 10th December 2020

(3 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Penny Mordaunt Portrait Penny Mordaunt
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The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport is the lead Department on that issue; I will ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport to update the right hon. Gentleman on the precise timetable that the Department is working to. The right hon. Gentleman is right at the heart of what he says: there is no logical reason why all sorts of things cannot be agreed to—they are in the interests of all parties and I hope that that is the conclusion that the EU negotiating team come to in the coming days.

Lia Nici Portrait Lia Nici (Great Grimsby) (Con)
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The fishing communities in Grimsby are pleased that we have not accepted the EU’s unreasonable requests in the negotiations. Does my right hon. Friend agree that any deal must allow us as a country to control who fishes in our waters?

Penny Mordaunt Portrait Penny Mordaunt
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My hon. Friend makes a good point. I reassure her, as I have other hon. Members, that the Prime Minister knows what his responsibilities are, the expectation of the fishing industry and what is in the interests of this country.