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Department: Cabinet Office

European Council

Philip Hollobone Excerpts
Monday 18th December 2017

(6 years, 4 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Theresa May Portrait The Prime Minister
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I will say this again: we will be ensuring that decisions that we take at the various stages of these negotiations cover Gibraltar as well as the United Kingdom.

Philip Hollobone Portrait Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering) (Con)
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Do the reciprocal rights for UK citizens in the EU extend simply to the country in which they reside or across the whole of the EU27?

Theresa May Portrait The Prime Minister
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The question of onward movement is one that will be looked at further in the second stage of the talks. This is reciprocal in terms of EU citizens’ rights here in the UK and UK citizens’ rights in the country in which they live in the European Union. There are further elements of that that we will be discussing in the later stages.