Implementing the withdrawal agreement

Part of European Union (Withdrawal) Bill – in the House of Commons at 3:15 pm on 13 December 2017.

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Photo of Oliver Letwin Oliver Letwin Conservative, West Dorset 3:15, 13 December 2017

I agree with my right hon. and learned Friend that we ought to avoid the possibility of parallel proceedings, but my suggestion would certainly achieve that. If the Government were to come forward at a later stage with an amendment that made it clear that clause 9 could be used only for urgent things of a specified kind, that would prevent the possibility of parallel proceedings.