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Department: Cabinet Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Oliver Heald Excerpts
Wednesday 19th December 2018

(5 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Brandon Lewis Portrait Brandon Lewis
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Departments are continually looking at and reviewing workforce plans, reprioritising and assessing changing needs. We have the beauty of having a fantastic civil service, with the extra funding that the Treasury has put in to make sure that we are able to get the civil service in place at this point, to continue to deliver on the important Government domestic agenda, while ensuring that we leave the EU in an orderly and sensible fashion.

Oliver Heald Portrait Sir Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire) (Con)
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In the field of justice, we have been lucky to enjoy very good civil, mutual judicial co-operation across Europe. In the event of a no-deal Brexit, are there plans in place, and are there the civil servants, for example, to rejoin The Hague conventions in place of the regulations in Europe and so on, to ensure that we have a smooth legal transition?

John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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There is something wrong with the microphone. The right hon. and learned Gentleman cannot be fully heard, and that is unsatisfactory, but I am sure it will be put right.