EU Membership (Audit of Costs and Benefits) Bill Debate

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Department: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

EU Membership (Audit of Costs and Benefits) Bill

Lindsay Hoyle Excerpts
Friday 26th February 2016

(8 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Oliver Colvile Portrait Oliver Colvile
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My great grandfather was a rural vicar in Oxfordshire. He said that he did not mind his congregation looking at their watches; it was when they started shaking them that he became concerned. I feel that that is something we should take on board.

Lindsay Hoyle Portrait Mr Deputy Speaker (Mr Lindsay Hoyle)
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I assure you that I am beginning to look at my watch.

Pat Glass Portrait Pat Glass
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That is helpful. As the hon. Gentleman has spoken about his great grandfather, I will talk about mine a little later. [Interruption.] Would the hon. Member for Shipley (Philip Davies) like to say something about my great grandfather? I will talk about him later, and perhaps the hon. Gentleman would like to intervene then.