Stella Creasy: Thank you, Madam Chair. [Interruption.] Apologies, Dame Rosie, it is hard to remember all the different protocols, but I hope I can make up for it in making a short contribution. I put on record a number of concerns. I recognise that amendment 1, which we tabled to address the concerns directly, has not been selected, so let me speak in support of amendments 6 and 8 from my colleagues, as...
Alexandra Sinclair: No, and I think they do not do that for three reasons, if I have the time to get into this. The changes to subject access requests, to data protection impact assessments and to the prohibition on article 22 are the key issues that we see. The reason why we are particularly worried about subject access requests and data protection impact assessments is that they are the...
Jim Shannon: Thank you for calling me, Mr Deputy Speaker: as so often in this House— and there is nothing wrong with this, by the way—I am called last, but always very pleased to make a contribution to the debate. My colleagues who have preceded me outlined the precarious situation we are in due to the punishing budget that has been set. The Minister may well say that that is a different debate—and...
Oliver Heald: May I join in the congratulations about the coronation and say to you, Mr Speaker, that we all thought you represented us very well? Given the concerns that have been expressed about changes in EU law about the movement of goods, does the Secretary of State agree that it is important to get the Assembly up and running so that the Stormont brake can be used if necessary?
Natasha Asghar: ...I ask for a statement from the Deputy Minister for Climate Change about safety measures on buses? The reason for this is because an 82-year-old constituent of mine was recently travelling on a bus to Blackwood when the driver had to perform an emergency stop due to another motorist's poor driving. My constituent was sat on the first double seat at the front of the bus, and was flung out of...
Jim Shannon: I am not sure whether everybody on this side of the Chamber will be cheering as much when I am finished, but that is by the way. We hope to have an engaging debate; hopefully, we can agree to disagree on some things. There are probably some outstanding things to mention, but I thank the hon. Member for Linlithgow and East Falkirk (Martyn Day) for introducing the debate, which he did in a...
Chris Heaton-Harris: Yes. This is probably not the appropriate time or space to do that, but the hon. Gentleman is absolutely right that there has been an increase in loyalist paramilitarism. The Government are supporting the Police Service of Northern Ireland in clamping down on it; we are well aware of it, and are working with politicians across the piece in Northern Ireland. With the Police Service of Northern...
Lord Murphy of Torfaen: My Lords, it has been a long debate and I will not detain your Lordships for much longer, but I want to deal with a couple of issues which have been the theme of today’s debate. The Labour Party will support the Government, as it did in the House of Commons, and it will urge Members to vote against the DUP’s amendment to the Motion. Much has been said about the hype which the Prime...
Lord Caine: My Lords, the Stormont brake is at the heart of the Windsor Framework. In the view of His Majesty’s Government, it addresses the democratic deficit, restores the balance of the Belfast agreement and ends the prospect of dynamic alignment. It restores practical sovereignty to the United Kingdom as a whole and to the people of Northern Ireland in particular. In a democracy, people should have...
Mick Antoniw: Thank you for that. We are meant to have some sort of Senedd brake in terms of the Sewel convention, but it's not a very effective brake and it doesn't have any judicable status. I'm afraid I can probably only really take the questions you raised by, to some extent, just enlarging on some of the points I made earlier. That is, at the moment, we're still trying to have to assess how this would...
Greg Clark: Again, that is a matter for the Minister, but I would not only be content with that but think it a desirable route to take. On the amendments tabled by my hon. Friend, he is right to seek to ensure that legislation in this House is properly scrutinised and debated, and the points he has raised—including those he just made—are pertinent and valuable. As I hope he might expect, I have...
Leo Docherty: We have been notified of around 250 amended or replaced EU goods regulations and directives under Article 13(3) since the old Protocol came into effect, for which there was no choice but to apply them automatically. Under the Windsor Framework, as EU goods rules are amended or replaced in the future, we have the powerful new democratic safeguard provided by the Stormont Brake. This ends the...
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon: ...the final arbiter on matters of EU law. But by the EU's own calculations, less than 3 percent of EU rules with ECJ oversight apply under the Windsor Framework, with those that remain only applying to maintain maximum free trade and market access for NI firms. And the Windsor Framework narrows the application of EU rules in Northern Ireland, removing 1,700 pages of EU law, and takes with it...
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon: The Windsor Framework removes 1,700 pages of EU law, and with them any European Court of Justice (ECJ) interpretation and oversight in those areas. Furthermore, the Stormont Brake would enable a sovereign UK Government decision to veto the application of new EU laws and accompanying ECJ oversight within Northern Ireland. This safeguard in the treaty itself is not subject to ECJ oversight, and...
John Redwood: The Government should not put this measure to a vote now. This will not work. It cannot work as a brake, because Stormont will not meet because of it. It gives amazing powers to the European Union—
Chris Heaton-Harris: I encourage my hon. Friend to attend today’s debate, in this Chamber, on the regulations implementing this powerful democratic mechanism. In short, 30 Members of the Legislative Assembly from two political parties may use the brake if there is anything significantly different about a new rule, whether in its content or scope, and if its application will have a significant impact on everyday...
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon: The Windsor Framework legal texts set out how it operates to disapply swathes of EU rules for internal UK trade, to ensure that UK food and drink safety rules apply for internal UK agrifood retail trade; to remove burdensome customs bureaucracy; to ensure it is UK authorities who licence drugs for the whole UK; to enable VAT and excise changes to be made UK-wide; and to give effect to the...
Penny Mordaunt: ...for the week commencing 20 March will include: Monday 20 March—Continuation of the Budget debate. Tuesday 21 March—Conclusion of the Budget debate. Wednesday 22 March—Debate on a motion to approve a statutory instrument relating to the Stormont brake in the Windsor framework, followed by consideration of Lords amendments to the Public Order Bill, followed by consideration of...
Sammy Wilson: On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. I understand that next Wednesday the Government are to bring forward a statutory instrument to the House in relation to the Stormont brake. Can I ask you to investigate the legislative basis on which such an instrument can be brought forward?
Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown: To ask His Majesty's Government whether the Stormont Assembly Brake in the Windsor Framework can block the application of new EU laws in Northern Ireland in practice.