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Business of the House (21 Oct 2019)

Owen Smith: May I thank the Leader of the House for confirming what I suspect the rest of the country has long thought: that the Queen’s Speech does not really matter to this Government and is a sham, which is why it has now been postponed? May I ask him, as someone who clearly believes in historical precedent in this case: is he serious that we are going to try and ram through this Bill dealing with...

European Council (11 Apr 2019)

Owen Smith: I commend the Prime Minister for the flexibility she has shown in recent days in rejecting a no deal and requesting the extension to article 50 that she had previously rejected. May I ask that she shows a similar spirit of compromise in accepting that one way in which she could get her deal through this Parliament is by attaching to it a people’s vote?

European Union (Withdrawal) Act (25 Mar 2019)

Owen Smith: ...alive that flame of democracy over the past two and a half years have been entirely right. What people were marching for on Saturday—people who voted leave, people who voted remain and people who may not have voted at all—was nothing less than that. It was a chance to exercise their democratic right, having started Brexit, to end Brexit; and having given the Government a mandate to...

Uk’S Withdrawal from the EU (27 Feb 2019)

Owen Smith: ...House having a say. That was always true, but the Prime Minister was forced to concede it yesterday. The second crucial concession was that it is not holy writ that we leave on 29 March and there may be a longer period. Those are both important concessions. As colleagues of mine have said today, if we do get to the point, as I expect, of no deal being voted down by this House and there...

Uk’S Withdrawal from the EU (27 Feb 2019)

Owen Smith: ...of Britain—then they need to start saying so. There is a narrow window of opportunity to contest this before some form of Brexit, whether the Prime Minister’s or the ERG’s, goes through. It may well go through by the end of this month. There is an opportunity to speak and march against Brexit in London on 23 March. People the length and breadth of Britain should join us for that and...

Petition - the Future of Maintained Nursery Schools: Licensing of Medical Devices (12 Feb 2019)

Owen Smith: ..., which is in stark contrast to the regime for medicines. Changes are coming into effect, however. A new medical devices regulation was launched across the EU in 2017 and will come into effect in May 2020. It was introduced with the acknowledgement of many of the problems that I have highlighted.

Petition - the Future of Maintained Nursery Schools: Licensing of Medical Devices (12 Feb 2019)

Owen Smith: ...outwith the purview of the European Medicines Agency. I fear that devices will once again be the Cinderella of the medical game. We did not have regulations for devices at all before 1990, and we may find that we are playing catch up with the European Union in future. Whichever way Brexit turns out, and in reflecting on the flaws in the regulatory system I have highlighted, I ask the...

Leaving the EU (12 Feb 2019)

Owen Smith: ...in an attempt to blackmail and bully MPs into supporting this deal. I reassure her that I will take her advice: I will hold my nerve and refuse to bend the knee to this job-destroying Brexit. May I urge my party’s Front Benchers to do likewise—refuse to vote for it and instead honour our conference commitment to holding a public vote on this deal?

Oral Answers to Questions — Northern Ireland: Border: Use of Technology (30 Jan 2019)

Owen Smith: May I associate myself with the Minister’s remarks about Bloody Sunday? He will know that in that same city of Derry/Londonderry just a fortnight ago the dissident republicans tried to take more lives of Northern Irish citizens. Can he understand that the Chief Constable in Northern Ireland thinks that any infrastructure at the border—any technology—will be a target for those same...

European Union (Withdrawal) Act: [5th Allotted Day] ( 9 Jan 2019)

Owen Smith: ...world, I want to get off,” is not a political prospectus or a realistic view of how to run a global, integrated economy. The nostalgia and nativism that are so evident on the Government Benches may be enough to feed the beast of the European Research Group, but they will not feed our children. Blaming foreigners and immigrants—the other—while hawking sepia-coloured myths of betrayal...

Public Bill Committee: Fisheries Bill: Power of Secretary of State to determine fishing opportunities (13 Dec 2018)

Owen Smith: I may have missed my chance, as the Minister sat down rather briskly, but I was merely trying to ascertain something. I fully accept that the Government are clearly trying, in the language in the initial clause in respect to objectives, to state that they want to set catch limits in line with MSY, but is there anything in the Bill that would prevent Ministers in future from diverging from...

Public Bill Committee: Fisheries Bill: Preparation and coming into effect of fisheries statements (11 Dec 2018)

Owen Smith: ...becomes most acute and most commercially problematic. In respect of the fisheries statements and the setting of quotas, it is perfectly possible that in future, for example, the UK Minister may wish to set quotas for shellfish that we do not currently have, which may be seen as unfair to fishers in Scotland or Wales in particular. I think we all recognise that there are myriad potential...

Exiting the European Union (10 Dec 2018)

Owen Smith: ...caused by this failed brinksmanship. Is it not grossly irresponsible of the Prime Minister to tell the country that we do not know when we will have a vote on this and that this uncertainty may continue indefinitely?

Fisheries Bill (21 Nov 2018)

Owen Smith: .... Gentleman confirm that it is worse than that? Not only will we still be in the CFP, but we will not be formally taking part in those discussions about quota. We will be invited to attend, and we may be consulted, but we will no longer have any proper influence.

EU Withdrawal Agreement: Legal Advice (13 Nov 2018)

Owen Smith: ...Minister’s very welcome admission that the Government are to publish economic analysis on the withdrawal agreement, and in the light of his failure to deny on Radio 4 this morning that Britain may well be worse off as a result of leaving the European Union, could he confirm that that analysis will measure whether we will be worse off leaving versus remaining in the European Union?

Bill Presented: Folic Acid Fortification (25 Oct 2018)

Owen Smith: That is right. I understand why the Government need to consult. There has been a debate about the upper level of folate. As I may discuss briefly later, the evidence suggests that there is not necessarily any issue associated with an upper tolerable limit. A recent paper in January last year by Professor Sir Nicholas Wald, who did the original research in the early 1990s, very effectively...

Northern Ireland (Executive Formation and Exercise of Functions) Bill: Extension of period for Executive formation (24 Oct 2018)

Owen Smith: ...unclear whether the Secretary of State interprets this legislation, as the hon. Gentleman and I do, as giving leeway to civil servants in Northern Ireland to undertake further action. Through him, may I urge the Secretary of State to intervene at some point before the close of the Committee this evening and clarify whether this will allow action on Hart?

Oral Answers to Questions — Wales: UK Shared Prosperity Fund (24 Oct 2018)

Owen Smith: Long may it continue. In the first spending period after Brexit, will Wales receive more money or less than it would have received under EU structural funds?

October EU Council (22 Oct 2018)

Owen Smith: On Saturday, more than 700,000 people marched peacefully on Parliament and reasonably requested a people’s vote on the final deal. May I urge the Prime Minister to listen to those reasonable voices and resist the thuggish and brutish threats coming from some on the Government Benches behind her?

British Citizenship Fees: Children — [Mr Philip Hollobone in the Chair] ( 4 Sep 2018)

Owen Smith: ...no further than the Windrush scandal to see that it is vital that the right documentation is in place so that the British citizenship these children are entitled to is secured for them. While it may be true, as the Prime Minister has said on a number of occasions in responding to criticism on this issue, that access to benefits and other aspects of our social security system will be...


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