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Section 5 of the European Communities (Amendment) Act 1993

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Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

579 cc849-870 

Session

2013-14

Department

Treasury

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

Baroness Morgan of Cotes | 579 c850 (Link to this contribution)

I beg to move,

That this House approves, for the purposes of Section 5 of the European Comm...

David Nuttall | 579 c850 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way so early in her speech. As she will know, today is...

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Baroness Morgan of Cotes | 579 c850 (Link to this contribution)

I know that my hon. Friend is an assiduous follower of these matters, and he is right. The other ...

Kelvin Hopkins | 579 c850 (Link to this contribution)

I have raised this matter before on similar occasions. First, there is constant talk about conver...

Baroness Morgan of Cotes | 579 cc850-1 (Link to this contribution)

I have read previous debates and know that the hon. Gentleman is assiduous in attending such deba...

Jacob Rees-Mogg | 579 c851 (Link to this contribution)

I am extremely grateful to the Minister for outlining the excellent economic policy that Her Maje...

Baroness Morgan of Cotes | 579 cc852-3 (Link to this contribution)

I am certainly not aware of any changes. In fact, I think it would be fair to say that we have le...

Ian Swales | 579 c853 (Link to this contribution)

The Minister makes a point about EU spending. Does she join me in welcoming the fact that certain...

Baroness Morgan of Cotes | 579 c853 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. As we are a part of the EU and contribute, as a country, to t...

Jacob Rees-Mogg | 579 c853 (Link to this contribution)

I wonder whether my hon. Friend should be a bit careful about welcoming EU spending in this count...

Baroness Morgan of Cotes | 579 c854 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is right, and he tempts me down a particular path—to say whether membership of the...

Andrew Turner | 579 c854 (Link to this contribution)

Is the Minister aware that this very morning, money was granted to the Isle of Wight and plenty o...

Baroness Morgan of Cotes | 579 cc854-5 (Link to this contribution)

To respond briefly, I entirely understand my hon. Friend’s point. I suspect he will be pleased th...

Shabana Mahmood | 579 cc855-6 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful to the new Financial Secretary to the Treasury for her introduction to the debate, ...

Ian Swales | 579 c856 (Link to this contribution)

Perhaps the shadow Minister will quote another statement in the Red Book, namely the statement th...

Shabana Mahmood | 579 c856 (Link to this contribution)

Later in my speech, I shall deal directly with issues relating to household income and what is ha...

Simon Burns | 579 c856 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Lady has been making a big point about fairness. Would it not be fair to point out that,...

Shabana Mahmood | 579 cc856-7 (Link to this contribution)

I shall deal with precisely what has happened to the personal allowance later in my speech, but l...

Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 579 c857 (Link to this contribution)

Order. The hon. Lady will be aware that this is a very narrow motion. I am sure that she is using...

Shabana Mahmood | 579 cc857-8 (Link to this contribution)

I will, of course, be careful, Madam Deputy Speaker. However, the point that I am making relates ...

Andrew Turner | 579 c858 (Link to this contribution)

Does the hon. Lady agree that one of the problems was Europe, and the fact that its the budget bu...

Shabana Mahmood | 579 c858 (Link to this contribution)

What we are being asked to do today is approve a document on the basis that it is an accurate ref...

Jacob Rees-Mogg | 579 c858 (Link to this contribution)

I am enjoying a good deal of the hon. Lady’s speech, but she ignores the crucial point: the Offic...

Shabana Mahmood | 579 cc858-9 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his intervention, but he will not be surprised to learn t...

Ian Swales | 579 c859 (Link to this contribution)

I am listening to the hon. Lady’s arguments. Would she like to add that because the income tax cu...

Shabana Mahmood | 579 cc859-861 (Link to this contribution)

And yet people in our country are on average £1,600 a year worse off. Let us look at the combined...

Philip Hollobone | 579 c860 (Link to this contribution)

It has certainly been spelt out in the convergence document produced by Her Majesty’s Treasury. P...

Shabana Mahmood | 579 c860 (Link to this contribution)

I am afraid that that does not get the Government off the hook when it comes to the impact of the...

Jacob Rees-Mogg | 579 c860 (Link to this contribution)

I welcome my hon. Friend the Member for Loughborough (Nicky Morgan) to her new post as Financial ...

Philip Hollobone | 579 c860 (Link to this contribution)

Does my hon. Friend think that it is slightly cheeky or that it is just a matter of coincidence t...

Jacob Rees-Mogg | 579 cc860-3 (Link to this contribution)

I think that it is an unfortunate concurrence of atoms. If we had not had a statement earlier, it...

Ian Swales | 579 c863 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way, and he is making a characteristically interesting spee...

Jacob Rees-Mogg | 579 cc863-4 (Link to this contribution)

It is always difficult to know what action can be taken until action has been taken and until the...

Graham Stringer | 579 cc864-5 (Link to this contribution)

It is always a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for North East Somerset (Jacob Rees-Mogg) in a ...

Ian Swales | 579 c865 (Link to this contribution)

I am carefully following the hon. Gentleman’s argument, with which I absolutely agree. I must adm...

Graham Stringer | 579 c865 (Link to this contribution)

The EU is not only a thin-end-of-the-wedge organisation but absolutely not a learning organisatio...

Philip Hollobone | 579 c865 (Link to this contribution)

I am listening to the hon. Gentleman with great interest, and he has evident expertise in matters...

Graham Stringer | 579 c866 (Link to this contribution)

Yes. The hon. Gentleman makes a pertinent point.

I had finished what I wanted to say about ...

David Nuttall | 579 cc866-7 (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure, as always, to follow my near neighbour from Greater Manchester, the hon. Member...

Jacob Rees-Mogg | 579 c867 (Link to this contribution)

For once, I disagree with my hon. Friend. I think it is of immeasurable importance that this deba...

David Nuttall | 579 cc867-8 (Link to this contribution)

I entirely agree on that point with my hon. Friend. If I had my way, we would disagree with Europ...

Baroness Morgan of Cotes | 579 cc868-9 (Link to this contribution)

I thank all hon. Members who have contributed to this extremely interesting debate. I will deal b...

Philip Hollobone | 579 c869 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is being far too modest —hiding her lamp under a bushel—because her own publicatio...

Baroness Morgan of Cotes | 579 cc869-871 (Link to this contribution)

I thank my hon. Friend for reading the document assiduously and quoting from it. Yesterday’s figu...

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Economic situation EU external trade Economic policy EU institutions Economic growth Reform Stability and Growth Pact Countries EU trade Office for Budget Responsibility Budget March 2014

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