EU Exit: Article 50

Rachel Maclean Excerpts
Monday 10th December 2018

(5 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Steve Barclay Portrait Stephen Barclay
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As the right hon. Gentleman will understand from his time as a Minister, the judgment was only today, so some of those costs for lawyers’ fees are still to come in. Costs such as that are declared, as is always the case, in the Department’s accounts. That is the standard way in which such accounts are itemised. This was a judgment that was reached today.

Rachel Maclean Portrait Rachel Maclean (Redditch) (Con)
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Does the Secretary of State agree that it seems from the contributions of Opposition Members that it may now be their position to seek to revoke article 50? Will he confirm that it remains the Government’s policy—and that I can go back and tell my constituents in Redditch categorically—that we will not seek to revoke article 50?

Steve Barclay Portrait Stephen Barclay
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I am happy to give my hon. Friend that assurance.