Preparations for Leaving the EU Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Preparations for Leaving the EU

Peter Bone Excerpts
Tuesday 8th October 2019

(5 years, 2 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Michael Gove Portrait Michael Gove
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I thank the hon. Lady for her question and underline your comments, Mr Speaker, about her amazing speech last week. We have been looking to ensure that we can accelerate the roadworks on junction 10A in order to ensure that access to the William Harvey for the hon. Lady’s constituents and others can be uninterrupted. I hope to be able to brief her and other Kent MPs on some of the other steps that we are taking in the next week.

Peter Bone Portrait Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough) (Con)
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By what date this month does the Secretary of State think it will be necessary to reach an agreement with the EU or notify the country, and in particular business, that there will be a no deal?

Michael Gove Portrait Michael Gove
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I hope we can make sufficient progress this week in order to be able to say at the EU Council that we have secured a deal. If we have not secured a deal, we will have to negotiate the legal framework that the House of Commons has put in place.