Results 101–120 of 553 for speaker:Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh

Informal European Council: Joint Ministerial Committee (EU Negotiations) ( 6 Feb 2017)

Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh: No, the hon. Gentleman has had more than enough time.

Informal European Council: Joint Ministerial Committee (EU Negotiations) ( 6 Feb 2017)

Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh: I am not taking any more interventions. I have answered the hon. Gentleman’s question. We also believe that the Prime Minister should not trigger article 50 before the Northern Irish Assembly election on 2 March has taken place, and that there must be a meeting of the British-Irish Council to discuss urgently the immediate effect of the UK’s exit from the EU on the Irish border. That is...

Informal European Council: Joint Ministerial Committee (EU Negotiations) ( 6 Feb 2017)

Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh: I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman, as ever, for his recognition of a passionate speech, although I wish he would pay more attention to the words that I am using while I am delivering it. Is it the Tory Government’s policy to continue with a devalued pound? Is that their vision for the economy of the United Kingdom? That is my answer to the hon. Gentleman’s question.

Informal European Council: Joint Ministerial Committee (EU Negotiations) ( 6 Feb 2017)

Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh: I am not going to give way just now, if the right hon. Gentleman does not mind. In relation to Scottish exports, new figures published by the think-tank Centre for Cities last weekend show just how vital the EU single market is for Scotland’s four largest cities. Exports to the EU from Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow alone total nearly £7 billion. The report also stated that 61% of...

Informal European Council: Joint Ministerial Committee (EU Negotiations) ( 6 Feb 2017)

Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh: I am not going to give way just now; allow me a few minutes to make some progress. This morning, Holyrood’s cross-party Europe Committee published its latest report on Brexit, in which it recommended a bespoke Scottish immigration system—almost on cue; I believe, from memory, that that was something propagated by someone on the Government Benches during the campaign. We now know that...

Informal European Council: Joint Ministerial Committee (EU Negotiations) ( 6 Feb 2017)

Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh: I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for making that point, which I understand. However, I would also ask: why is the whole United Kingdom being held to ransom by the Prime Minister’s selection of some random date, with no view to the consequences for the whole of the country? We are required to work to that date, but it came off on a whim. A deal such as I have described is essential for...

Informal European Council: Joint Ministerial Committee (EU Negotiations) ( 6 Feb 2017)

Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh: As my colleagues are saying from a sedentary position, the right hon. Gentleman does not believe in expert opinion anyway. Perhaps he will agree—his mention of another independence referendum speaks to this fact—that the question that was posed to the people of Scotland in 2014 was about a United Kingdom different from the one that exists now. Of course, it is in the gift of the...

Informal European Council: Joint Ministerial Committee (EU Negotiations) ( 6 Feb 2017)

Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh: I will speak to the amendments tabled in my name and in the names of my hon. and right hon. Friends. I take the House back to the morning of 24 June when the then Prime Minister, the then Chancellor and the current Foreign Secretary were missing in inaction, and the First Minister of Scotland took to the steps of Bute House to address the people of Scotland. Let us be clear: we absolutely...

Informal European Council: Joint Ministerial Committee (EU Negotiations) ( 6 Feb 2017)

Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh: Interestingly, if hon. Members turn to page 17 of the so-called White Paper, they will see a change of wording. We have moved from having a “UK approach” to “seeking” to agree a UK approach—another change in the Prime Minister’s position.

Informal European Council: Joint Ministerial Committee (EU Negotiations) ( 6 Feb 2017)

Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh: I will come to that issue in a moment. The Scottish National party’s compromise amendments propose a UK approach for all of “Team UK”, which is what the Prime Minister would like to think we are. I say the amendments are a compromise because that is exactly what they are. We fundamentally believe that the best future for Scotland and, indeed, the whole United Kingdom is to remain in the...

Informal European Council: Joint Ministerial Committee (EU Negotiations) ( 6 Feb 2017)

Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh: The only myths in the independence referendum in Scotland were those peddled by the right hon. Gentleman’s friends in the Conservative party and those in the Labour party—that is where the myths came from. I am grateful to him for reminding the Committee, and indeed all those who are watching, that that is precisely the case. The First Minister of Scotland has laid out a number of...

Informal European Council: Joint Ministerial Committee (EU Negotiations) ( 6 Feb 2017)

Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh: I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman, whose interventions are always astute. I refer him to the wording of the new clause, which refers specifically to “a UK wide approach to, and objectives for, the UK’s negotiations”. Those are the Prime Minister’s words. New clause 139 would require a substantive vote on this matter to be held in each of the devolved Parliaments prior to article 50...

Informal European Council ( 6 Feb 2017)

Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh: What discussions did the Prime Minister have in Malta on trade deals? She will of course be aware that all Members of the European Parliament will be able to vote on the EU-Canada trade deal, but her Government have gone back on their promise to hold a debate on the Floor of the House. Given the prominence given to the comprehensive economic and trade agreement in her very brief Brexit White...

Airport Capacity and Airspace Policy: Business of the House ( 2 Feb 2017)

Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh: As the Government hurtle headlong into Brexit Britain, may we please have a debate in Government time on our future plans for international trade policy? The Prime Minister and the Secretary of State are jet-setting around the world promising all sorts of deals to President Trump and President Erdogan, but the House has still not had the opportunity to discuss the principles that will...

Women and Equalities: Racially Motivated Incidents ( 2 Feb 2017)

Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh: The Minister will be aware that the European Union has been a beacon of hope and a key proponent of equality for citizens’ rights across the globe. Will he categorically confirm to the House not only that the discrimination laws and rights bestowed upon people across the UK will be upheld following a UK exit from the EU, but that citizens living in the UK will not be left behind and have...

Petition - English Language and English Literature Gcse-Level Examinations: World Hijab Day ( 1 Feb 2017)

Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh: Thank you very much for granting this Adjournment debate on the subject of World Hijab Day, Mr Speaker. Hijab is an Arabic word meaning barrier or partition. In Islam, however, it has a broader meaning. The most visible form of hijab is the head covering that many Muslim women wear. I should say now that I feel that Muslim women should wear it only if they want to wear it; it absolutely...

Petition - English Language and English Literature Gcse-Level Examinations: World Hijab Day ( 1 Feb 2017)

Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh: My hon. Friend makes an important point. As I said earlier this week in the Chamber, we must not be afraid to stand up to racism and xenophobia where it exists, but I fear that, sometimes, we lose our ability to do that when we see who the proponent is. We must never do that. The Hijab Day founder said: “Growing up in the Bronx, in New York City, I experienced a great deal of discrimination...

Petition - English Language and English Literature Gcse-Level Examinations: World Hijab Day ( 1 Feb 2017)

Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh: I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention, some of which I agree with and, as he will understand, some of which I do not. This idea of what it means to be British is very much under question. However, I do know what it means to be a human being and to stand up for human rights and for what is right. I do not think that that is defined by where someone comes from in the world, which is...

Petition - English Language and English Literature Gcse-Level Examinations: World Hijab Day ( 1 Feb 2017)

Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh: The hon. Lady makes an excellent point. Yes, too many crimes are committed whereby women—even young women and girls—have their hijabs pulled off. I agree with her point that, as Muslim women, we stand by those whose choice it is not to wear the hijab and whose choice it is not to do what they may be told by male counterparts in their family. Islam is about equality. Anyone who suggests...

European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill: [2nd day] ( 1 Feb 2017)

Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh: We have here a referendum that Scotland did not want, a Government that Scotland did not vote for and a result that does not reflect the wishes of the people of Scotland. This Government, whose stated policy was to keep us in the single market, are taking us towards the Brexit door at breakneck speed. Government Members have been waxing lyrical over the past couple of days about this...


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