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Ministerial statement on Tuesday, 17 January 2017, in the House of Commons, led by David Davis.


New Partnership with the EU

Statement on the Government's plans for exiting the European Union.


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Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
619 cc791-822 
Session
2016-17
Department
Department for Exiting the European Union
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
David Davis | 619 c792 (Link to this contribution)

I say to the hon. Member for Cardiff South and Penarth (Stephen Doughty), who has just made a poi...

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David Davis | 619 cc792-4 (Link to this contribution)

Not making that point, but making a rather more pertinent one, which was that we did not have the...

Keir Starmer | 619 cc794-6 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the Secretary of State for advance sight of his statement. The speech that the Prime Mini...

John Bercow | 619 c796 (Link to this contribution)

Well, not many and not for long. [Interruption.] Order. The hon. Gentleman is a learned, celebrat...

Keir Starmer | 619 c796 (Link to this contribution)

Mr Speaker, let me give three examples without the details: the European Aviation Safety Agency, ...

David Davis | 619 cc796-7 (Link to this contribution)

When we started down this route, I said to the House that the Government had been given a nationa...

William Cash | 619 c797 (Link to this contribution)

I am sure that my right hon. Friend will acknowledge that the Prime Minister’s speech is principl...

David Davis | 619 c797 (Link to this contribution)

I have tried throughout the past six months not to respond to the sometimes emotional comments fr...

Peter Grant | 619 cc797-8 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the Secretary of State for the advance copy of his speech, and for recognising the correc...

Peter Grant | 619 c798 (Link to this contribution)

Given that he is nodding, will he give an undertaking that the paper will be properly and thoroug...

David Davis | 619 c798 (Link to this contribution)

It has been my privilege to chair the Joint Ministerial Committee on EU Negotiations on which Mik...

Anna Soubry | 619 c798 (Link to this contribution)

I will continue to campaign for our membership of the single market and to make the positive case...

David Davis | 619 c799 (Link to this contribution)

First, on my right hon. Friend’s slip of the tongue, I often make the same mistake; it is probabl...

Ed Miliband | 619 c799 (Link to this contribution)

The Secretary of State and the Prime Minister have both more or less admitted today what has been...

David Davis | 619 c799 (Link to this contribution)

I will correct one or two things the right hon. Gentleman got wrong about what I said. He is wron...

Lord Tyrie | 619 c799 (Link to this contribution)

The Prime Minister has indeed given clarity: we are leaving the single market, and we are leaving...

David Davis | 619 c799 (Link to this contribution)

My right hon. Friend wrote a very wise paper, which I referred to in a previous exchange here. He...

Hilary Benn | 619 c800 (Link to this contribution)

While the Prime Minister has made things clearer today, and I welcome, in particular, the commitm...

David Davis | 619 c800 (Link to this contribution)

What the Government will do is abide by the instruction given to them by the British people, and ...

Cheryl Gillan | 619 c800 (Link to this contribution)

May I, too, welcome the increased clarity the Prime Minister has brought to the EU debate today? ...

David Davis | 619 c800 (Link to this contribution)

The aim of our entire strategy is to improve the economic prospects of the country, and to do tha...

Douglas Carswell | 619 c800 (Link to this contribution)

I applaud the Prime Minister’s speech and her vision of a liberal Brexit. Can the Minister confir...

David Davis | 619 c801 (Link to this contribution)

One of the things the Prime Minister has made plain is that we are not the supplicant, either in ...

Edward Leigh | 619 c801 (Link to this contribution)

I think we should loyally support the Government. [Laughter.] Will the Secretary of State confirm...

David Davis | 619 c801 (Link to this contribution)

With respect to my hon. Friend’s opening remarks, my health is fragile these days, so will he be ...

Yvette Cooper | 619 c801 (Link to this contribution)

The Prime Minister, in the first part of her speech, made a welcome commitment to enhance and pro...

David Davis | 619 c801 (Link to this contribution)

I will say to the right hon. Lady what I said to the head of the TUC only a couple of weeks ago: ...

Steve Baker | 619 c801 (Link to this contribution)

The Governor of the Bank of England recently told the Treasury Committee that the financial stabi...

David Davis | 619 c801 (Link to this contribution)

The Governor and my hon. Friend make a very good point. The existence of the City of London ensur...

Andy Burnham | 619 c802 (Link to this contribution)

As the Secretary of State knows, I support reforming freedom of movement, but in a way that does ...

David Davis | 619 c802 (Link to this contribution)

If the right hon. Gentleman is not careful, I shall invite him to jump on the M62 and come to vis...

Desmond Swayne | 619 c802 (Link to this contribution)

It is a magnificent plan, but before the Secretary of State negotiates it, may I urge on him enor...

David Davis | 619 c802 (Link to this contribution)

I almost reiterate the answer I gave to the previous question, which is that I am from Yorkshire,...

Pat McFadden | 619 c802 (Link to this contribution)

Today’s speech is a result of what you get when you allow immigration policy to dictate economic ...

David Davis | 619 c802 (Link to this contribution)

First, the outcome of the referendum last year was not principally about immigration, although a ...

Alex Chalk | 619 c802 (Link to this contribution)

My right hon. Friend made it clear in his statement that “no deal is better than a bad deal”. In ...

David Davis | 619 c803 (Link to this contribution)

The referendum last year set in motion a circumstance where the UK is going to leave the European...

Baroness Hoey | 619 c803 (Link to this contribution)

I welcome the Prime Minister’s speech today in the sense that it gives certainty to the millions ...

David Davis | 619 c803 (Link to this contribution)

Of course we will do that; the hon. Lady is entirely right. We are constrained by a thing called ...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 619 c803 (Link to this contribution)

I apologise, Mr Speaker, for being unavoidably rather late in the Chamber. While I welcome the to...

David Davis | 619 c803 (Link to this contribution)

Opposition Members have a very short memory. I can forgive my right hon. and learned Friend becau...

Stephen Doughty | 619 c803 (Link to this contribution)

Can the Secretary of State be absolutely crystal clear about this: do his statement and the Prime...

David Davis | 619 c804 (Link to this contribution)

I was asked by the Select Committee to present a plan as quickly as possible, and that is what we...

Heidi Allen | 619 c804 (Link to this contribution)

I am very pleased to hear that priorities include allowing EU citizens to stay here and allowing ...

David Davis | 619 c804 (Link to this contribution)

Broadly, yes. My hon. Friend is the Member for South Cambridgeshire. I was in Cambridge only just...

Sammy Wilson | 619 c804 (Link to this contribution)

The Government took a wise decision to inform our EU partners that in the event of intransigence ...

David Davis | 619 c804 (Link to this contribution)

I am mildly disappointed but not surprised. What is perhaps surprising is that whenever we hear s...

Dominic Raab | 619 c804 (Link to this contribution)

I welcome the detailed plan set out by the Prime Minister for a post-Brexit Britain that means th...

David Davis | 619 c804 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend—my old friend—goes right to the heart of this. The purpose of this, and the reason...

Stella Creasy | 619 c805 (Link to this contribution)

In 45 minutes, the Prime Minister has not delivered a plan—she has delivered a Pandora’s box. Let...

David Davis | 619 c805 (Link to this contribution)

First, Nissan has decided to enlarge its investment in Britain, so it is clearly persuaded of thi...

Tania Mathias | 619 c805 (Link to this contribution)

Does the Secretary of State agree that having a strong, fair and global Britain must include show...

David Davis | 619 c805 (Link to this contribution)

What we have done is to seek at the earliest possible opportunity to try to establish with the na...

Keith Vaz | 619 c805 (Link to this contribution)

Further to the point made by the hon. Member for Twickenham (Dr Mathias), the speech contains the...

David Davis | 619 c805 (Link to this contribution)

The right hon. Gentleman will know, as the long-standing ex-Chairman of the Home Affairs Committe...

Ben Howlett | 619 c806 (Link to this contribution)

I, too, welcome the Prime Minister’s tone and her outlined objectives as she enters into the Brex...

David Davis | 619 c806 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend goes to the heart of the strategy. We want not just a 0% tariff, but—let us rememb...

Sarah Olney | 619 c806 (Link to this contribution)

Once the UK has left the EU, there will be a £9 billion hole in EU finances. Given reduced resour...

David Davis | 619 c806 (Link to this contribution)

I am afraid that the hon. Lady is wrong about the more lucrative markets. Once we are outside the...

Dan Poulter | 619 c806 (Link to this contribution)

I warmly welcome the statement by my right hon. Friend and the speech by the Prime Minister earli...

David Davis | 619 c806 (Link to this contribution)

We are already doing that. As I mentioned to my hon. Friend the Member for South Cambridgeshire (...

Angela Eagle | 619 c807 (Link to this contribution)

The Secretary of State was an early advocate of a White Paper. Downing Street has made it clear t...

David Davis | 619 c807 (Link to this contribution)

Frankly, the hon. Lady should read the speech. It is almost 7,000 words of very closely argued st...

Lucy Frazer | 619 c807 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. and learned Member for Holborn and St Pancras (Keir Starmer) suggested that the European...

David Davis | 619 c807 (Link to this contribution)

There is always an arbitration clause in any trade deal, but who carries out the arbitration form...

Caroline Lucas | 619 c807 (Link to this contribution)

May I suggest to the Secretary of State that his Government’s threat to turn Britain into a corpo...

David Davis | 619 c807 (Link to this contribution)

The way in which we have—very clearly, I think—structured this with the great repeal Bill is so t...

Peter Bone | 619 c807 (Link to this contribution)

In the Secretary of State’s long and distinguished political career, did he ever think that in hi...

David Davis | 619 c807 (Link to this contribution)

Absolutely not. Sadly, however, that will not get me a pay increase.

Chris Bryant | 619 c808 (Link to this contribution)

Russia has been up to its usual tricks in trying to stir up trouble between Serbia and Kosovo thi...

David Davis | 619 c808 (Link to this contribution)

We will be able to do that by bilateral negotiation, but let me go back to the fundamentals of wh...

James Morris | 619 c808 (Link to this contribution)

I welcome today’s statement and the clarity it brings. In the Black country and the wider west mi...

David Davis | 619 c808 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend makes a point that goes to the heart of the approach to the customs union. The rea...

Hannah Bardell | 619 c808 (Link to this contribution)

EU workers in Scotland contribute £7.5 billion to our economy, not to mention the huge contributi...

David Davis | 619 c808 (Link to this contribution)

There is a part of the Scottish Government’s report that relates to this issue. As I said to one ...

Victoria Atkins | 619 c808 (Link to this contribution)

I welcome the Prime Minister’s plan for Britain and her speech today. I represent a rural constit...

David Davis | 619 c809 (Link to this contribution)

Very simply, the answer is yes. We are a large market for European agriculture and food productio...

Stephen Timms | 619 c809 (Link to this contribution)

On rethinking immigration policy, will Ministers consider allowing EU citizens to come to the UK ...

David Davis | 619 c809 (Link to this contribution)

If I remember correctly from the Prime Minister’s speech, she made the point that this is not at ...

David Rutley | 619 c809 (Link to this contribution)

I welcome the Prime Minister’s speech and her plans. Does my right hon. Friend agree that his neg...

David Davis | 619 c809 (Link to this contribution)

The two policies, the industrial policy and the negotiating policy with the European Union, fit t...

Chuka Umunna | 619 c809 (Link to this contribution)

Trading with the EU under WTO rules would be vastly inferior to our current arrangements, with 10...

David Davis | 619 c809 (Link to this contribution)

What the Prime Minister said in terms is that a bad deal is worse than no deal for a variety of r...

Jeremy Lefroy | 619 c809 (Link to this contribution)

I welcome the Prime Minister’s tone this morning in the building formerly known as Stafford House...

David Davis | 619 c810 (Link to this contribution)

As ever, my hon. Friend is right. The point I tried to make earlier—I think it was made this morn...

Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 619 c810 (Link to this contribution)

If we are looking for things that unite us and enable us to exit the European Union more smoothly...

David Davis | 619 c810 (Link to this contribution)

Having explained earlier how I got the job by being oleaginous to the boss, I think answering tha...

Alec Shelbrooke | 619 c810 (Link to this contribution)

As the shadow Minister said, this is not a hard Brexit and nor is it a soft Brexit. This is a pla...

David Davis | 619 c810 (Link to this contribution)

I am slightly loth to pin the entire effectiveness of the strategy on the currency markets, altho...

Lord Wilson of Sedgefield | 619 c810 (Link to this contribution)

The Prime Minister said in her speech that we are leaving the single market and that she is going...

David Davis | 619 c810 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Gentleman should have listened to the questions, when the Prime Minister elaborated and ...

Richard Drax | 619 c811 (Link to this contribution)

Well done the Prime Minister; well done my right hon. Friend. Does he share my optimism that acce...

David Davis | 619 c811 (Link to this contribution)

I am sure my hon. Friend is right and I particularly like the opening part of his question.

Alasdair McDonnell | 619 c811 (Link to this contribution)

I commend the right hon. Member for Broxtowe (Anna Soubry) for her sanity and common sense, and t...

David Davis | 619 c811 (Link to this contribution)

Since the beginning of this process—since I took up my post—we have put the preservation of the s...

Jonathan Djanogly | 619 c811 (Link to this contribution)

As the Secretary of State said, giving up our membership of the EU and the single market is not i...

David Davis | 619 c811 (Link to this contribution)

I have considered them, but the idea that I might talk about them is another matter. There is a n...

Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 619 c811 (Link to this contribution)

The Prime Minister has said we will be leaving the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice,...

David Davis | 619 c812 (Link to this contribution)

As the right hon. Lady knows, I have history in this area. They are completely separate entities,...

Tom Pursglove | 619 c812 (Link to this contribution)

I wholeheartedly welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement and that of the Prime Minister. Steel p...

Liz Saville Roberts | 619 c812 (Link to this contribution)

The Secretary of State talked about bumps in the road, but this threatens to be a head-on car cra...

David Davis | 619 c812 (Link to this contribution)

The intention is none. To that end, the JMC will be considering a submission from the Government ...

Stephen Hammond | 619 c812 (Link to this contribution)

I believe that the Prime Minister’s plan is a pragmatic one setting out our ambition to continue ...

David Davis | 619 c812 (Link to this contribution)

Following my earlier oleaginous comments, of course I will follow the Prime Minister’s lead. Yes,...

Catherine McKinnell | 619 c812 (Link to this contribution)

Some 58% of north-east exports are destined for the EU—10% more than the UK average—which leaves ...

David Davis | 619 c812 (Link to this contribution)

I am not a southerner, so the hon. Lady will understand that I come at this with a slightly diffe...

Amanda Milling | 619 c813 (Link to this contribution)

Nearly 70% of my constituents voted to leave the EU, so I very much welcome the Prime Minister’s ...

David Davis | 619 c813 (Link to this contribution)

Strictly speaking, my hon. Friend should address that question to the Department for Internationa...

Margaret Ferrier | 619 c813 (Link to this contribution)

The second of the Prime Minister’s Brexit principles is that leaving the EU will mean that our la...

David Davis | 619 c813 (Link to this contribution)

First, not a single power will come away from the devolved Administrations—[Interruption.] Yes, b...

Jason McCartney | 619 c813 (Link to this contribution)

I totally agree with my right hon. Friend that the UK is one of the best places for innovation an...

David Davis | 619 c813 (Link to this contribution)

Of course. If the European negotiators take a rational approach, we will do this deal inside the ...

Lord McCabe | 619 c813 (Link to this contribution)

No deal might be better than a bad deal, but is not the reality that no deal means that, despite ...

David Davis | 619 c814 (Link to this contribution)

No. Being left with what the 27 nations want to impose on us is the definition of a bad deal.

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Lord Mackinlay of Richborough | 619 c814 (Link to this contribution)

I am sure that the Secretary of State shares my enthusiasm for the clarity in the Prime Minister’...

David Davis | 619 c814 (Link to this contribution)

That last point is the most persuasive: it is a positive-sum game, and will be to their benefit a...

Lord Mann | 619 c814 (Link to this contribution)

EU procurement rules have led to the privatisation of parts of the health service, including part...

David Davis | 619 c814 (Link to this contribution)

What the hon. Gentleman will understand better than most is that once we have exited the European...

Henry Smith | 619 c814 (Link to this contribution)

I very much welcome the Prime Minister’s speech today, and indeed my right hon. Friend’s statemen...

David Davis | 619 c814 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is exactly right. The common commercial policy prevents us from making such deals,...

Alan Brown | 619 c814 (Link to this contribution)

The 12-point fantasy wish list includes the UK doing away with free movement, coming out of the c...

David Davis | 619 c814 (Link to this contribution)

That was an interestingly conflated question. If I remember correctly, the common travel area sta...

William Wragg | 619 c815 (Link to this contribution)

My right hon. Friend is the man with the plan. [Interruption.] Opposition Members may mock if the...

Lady Hermon | 619 c815 (Link to this contribution)

The Secretary of State and indeed the Prime Minister are very keen to repeat that no one wants a ...

David Davis | 619 c815 (Link to this contribution)

The first thing to say is that there is, of course, an open border now. I do not wish to give the...

Gareth Johnson | 619 c815 (Link to this contribution)

Some 44% of our exports go to the European Union. Does the Secretary of State agree that in many ...

David Davis | 619 c815 (Link to this contribution)

Yes, it is a really difficult one. My hon. Friend will know better than me that over the last 16 ...

Kerry McCarthy | 619 c815 (Link to this contribution)

The Prime Minister has come up with this wish list and a threat of a scorched earth policy of sla...

David Davis | 619 c816 (Link to this contribution)

It would help the hon. Lady if she read the speech with a slightly more impartial view. It says i...

James Cartlidge | 619 c816 (Link to this contribution)

Whether we like it or not, it is a statement of economic fact that a large part of our economy is...

David Davis | 619 c816 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is right that a level of unskilled migration is likely to continue. Where from and...

Matt Warman | 619 c816 (Link to this contribution)

My constituency voted, as Members know, more strongly than anywhere else in the country to leave ...

David Davis | 619 c816 (Link to this contribution)

I do not want to get into trying to interpret everybody’s inner thinking, but the simple truth is...

Albert Owen | 619 c816 (Link to this contribution)

The Secretary of State has said that maintaining the common travel area between the Republic of I...

David Davis | 619 c816 (Link to this contribution)

Let me pick up both parts of the question. The hon. Gentleman is right: only one of the two count...

Robert Jenrick | 619 c817 (Link to this contribution)

I am loth to disagree with my parliamentary neighbour, my right hon. and learned Friend the Membe...

John Bercow | 619 c817 (Link to this contribution)

It would be good if it were a speaking statue. I fear that otherwise it will not fully capture th...

David Davis | 619 c817 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend the Member for Newark (Robert Jenrick) is right. I cannot imagine that most countr...

Helen Hayes | 619 c817 (Link to this contribution)

The Secretary of State has confirmed that my constituents who are EU nationals will still be used...

David Davis | 619 c817 (Link to this contribution)

The point about dealing with people as a block is that it makes no one a bargaining chip. The tro...

Andrew Turner | 619 c817 (Link to this contribution)

Will my right hon. Friend explain what will happen to fisheries?

David Davis | 619 c818 (Link to this contribution)

With great respect to my hon. Friend, I will not go into every single sector of the negotiation, ...

Martin Docherty-Hughes | 619 c818 (Link to this contribution)

It is a pity that the Secretary of State was unable to be present for the statement by the Secret...

David Davis | 619 c818 (Link to this contribution)

I think I have said that many times.

Daniel Zeichner | 619 c818 (Link to this contribution)

When Switzerland voted in 2014 to restrict immigration, its future participation in key EU resear...

David Davis | 619 c818 (Link to this contribution)

As nonsense questions go, that pretty much takes the biscuit. We have made very plain indeed what...

Neil Gray | 619 c818 (Link to this contribution)

Given that nearly everything that has been said by the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State ...

David Davis | 619 c818 (Link to this contribution)

As I said in an earlier answer, that paper will come before us in a few days’ time. It has, of co...

Joanna Cherry | 619 c818 (Link to this contribution)

At the weekend it was reported that Michel Barnier, the EU’s negotiator, was prepared to contempl...

David Davis | 619 c819 (Link to this contribution)

This is very unusual for the hon. and learned Lady, but she has not quite got Michel Barnier’s st...

Wes Streeting | 619 c819 (Link to this contribution)

The Secretary of State says that no deal is better than a bad deal, but what he has not made clea...

David Davis | 619 c819 (Link to this contribution)

I do not know where the hon. Gentleman was on 23 June, but the British people pretty much rejecte...

Mark Durkan | 619 c819 (Link to this contribution)

Brexit is a bigger factor in the political discoloration in Northern Ireland at the moment, partl...

David Davis | 619 c819 (Link to this contribution)

I am not entirely sure that I understand the reference, but one of the reasons why I wrote to the...

Mark Hendrick | 619 c820 (Link to this contribution)

Will the Secretary of State tell the House why on earth the other 27 members of the European Unio...

David Davis | 619 c820 (Link to this contribution)

Let me, at the risk of repeating myself, pick one industry and one country. The German car indust...

George Kerevan | 619 c820 (Link to this contribution)

The Prime Minister ended her speech this morning on a very gracious note: she said that the victo...

David Davis | 619 c820 (Link to this contribution)

As I said earlier, and as I have said to Mike Russell, I have not commented publicly on the repor...

Kate Green | 619 c820 (Link to this contribution)

The EU is in the process of concluding international trade deals with, for example, Japan and Can...

David Davis | 619 c820 (Link to this contribution)

There is little point in modelling what is not going to happen. For many of the most important de...

Lord Elliott of Ballinamallard | 619 c820 (Link to this contribution)

I noted the Secretary of State’s assertion about controlling our own laws and ending the authorit...

David Davis | 619 c820 (Link to this contribution)

I assume the hon. Gentleman is talking about the standing of case law. That will be frozen at the...

Jonathan Reynolds | 619 c821 (Link to this contribution)

Free trade in goods is much easier to achieve than the free flow of services where non-tariff bar...

David Davis | 619 c821 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Gentleman may have noticed that last week TheCityUK, which obviously has an interest in ...

Ian Jnr Paisley | 619 c821 (Link to this contribution)

The Secretary of State will know that my constituency had the largest leave vote in Northern Irel...

David Davis | 619 c821 (Link to this contribution)

Yes, it will apply across the whole United Kingdom I think, but, as I have said, I am trying not ...

Tommy Sheppard | 619 c821 (Link to this contribution)

Three quarters of my fellow citizens in the great city of Edinburgh voted not to turn their back ...

David Davis | 619 c821 (Link to this contribution)

I have said already that we will respect the view of the Scottish Government on this, but I have ...

Stewart Malcolm McDonald | 619 c822 (Link to this contribution)

The new Britannic isolation that the Government now seek must not be at the expense of EU nationa...

David Davis | 619 c822 (Link to this contribution)

It requires all members of the European Union together to agree.

Stuart C McDonald | 619 c822 (Link to this contribution)

The Prime Minister’s fixation with leaving the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice clea...

David Davis | 619 c822 (Link to this contribution)

We have security arrangements with other allies—America for a start—which do not run into that pr...

Callum McCaig | 619 c822 (Link to this contribution)

“No deal is better than a bad deal”: I am slightly perplexed by that. How could a negotiated deal...

David Davis | 619 c822 (Link to this contribution)

Another hon. Member referred to a deal in which we had to take all sorts of penalties from all so...

Patrick Grady | 619 c822 (Link to this contribution)

Of all the laws and regulations that will be democratically repatriated to this Parliament by the...

David Davis | 619 c822 (Link to this contribution)

On the question about the first one to repeal, I do not really have a favourite, but I will tell ...

John Bercow | 619 c822 (Link to this contribution)

I will come to the hon. Lady in a moment.

I am most grateful to the Secretary of State for ...

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