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Debate on Wednesday, 18 January 2017, in the House of Commons, led by Brandon Lewis. The answering members were David Jones and Baroness Chapman of Darlington.

Leaving the EU: Security, Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice

Motion that this House has considered exiting the EU and security, law enforcement and criminal justice. Agreed to on question.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
619 cc954-1024 
Session
2016-17
Department
Home Office
Department for Exiting the European Union
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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EU policing and security issues.
Tuesday, 6 December 2016
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House of Commons
Proceeding contributions
Brandon Lewis | 619 cc955-6 (Link to this contribution)

I beg to move,

That this House has considered exiting the EU and security, law enforcement ...

Keith Vaz | 619 c956 (Link to this contribution)

I disagree with nothing that the Minister has said so far. We are leaders in Europe as far as co-...

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Brandon Lewis | 619 c956 (Link to this contribution)

I appreciate the right hon. Gentleman’s agreement with my position so far. He makes an important ...

Lord Hanson of Flint | 619 c956 (Link to this contribution)

Will the Minister give me some reassurance on the issue of the European arrest warrant? Before th...

Brandon Lewis | 619 c956 (Link to this contribution)

As the right hon. Gentleman will be aware, we are at the start of negotiations. I cannot predict ...

Robert Neill | 619 c956 (Link to this contribution)

To reinforce that point, will the Minister concede that what we are talking about is a system of ...

Brandon Lewis | 619 c957 (Link to this contribution)

As ever, my hon. Friend makes a really important point, and he is absolutely right. Some members ...

Dominic Grieve | 619 c957 (Link to this contribution)

The Minister will be aware that one consequence of leaving the European Union, as the Prime Minis...

Brandon Lewis | 619 c957 (Link to this contribution)

I appreciate my right hon. and learned Friend’s point. One piece of work we will do during the ne...

Brandon Lewis | 619 cc957-8 (Link to this contribution)

I just want to make a bit more progress.

The Prime Minister set out in her speech yesterday...

Liam Byrne | 619 c1239 (Link to this contribution)

I just want to follow up on the incredibly important question posed by the right hon. and learned...

Brandon Lewis | 619 c1239 (Link to this contribution)

The right hon. Gentleman tempts me to give a running commentary and to prejudge the outcome of th...

Brandon Lewis | 619 c959 (Link to this contribution)

I will make a bit of progress before I give way again.

Our current model of EU co-operation...

Lord Hanson of Flint | 619 c959 (Link to this contribution)

I am looking at Europol’s website, which states:

“We do this by assisting the European Unio...

Brandon Lewis | 619 c959 (Link to this contribution)

If the right hon. Gentleman looks further into Europol’s website, he will see that there are alre...

Pat McFadden | 619 c960 (Link to this contribution)

Further to the question of the right hon. and learned Member for Beaconsfield (Mr Grieve), the Pr...

Brandon Lewis | 619 c1240 (Link to this contribution)

It is worth the right hon. Gentleman looking at the Europol website that the right hon. Member fo...

Brandon Lewis | 619 c1240 (Link to this contribution)

I will give way to the Chair of the Home Affairs Committee in a moment.

I appreciate that s...

Yvette Cooper | 619 c1240 (Link to this contribution)

The Minister will know that although several countries have operational and strategic partnership...

Brandon Lewis | 619 c1240 (Link to this contribution)

I am not ruling anything in or out; I am looking to make sure that we get the bespoke deal that i...

James Berry | 619 c1240 (Link to this contribution)

While my right hon. Friend does not want to prejudge negotiations, does not his decision to opt i...

Brandon Lewis | 619 cc1240-961 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend makes a good point. As I clearly outlined in the Committee, the decision to opt in...

Ben Howlett | 619 c961 (Link to this contribution)

The National Crime Agency has said that joint investigation teams are incredibly important to the...

Brandon Lewis | 619 cc961-2 (Link to this contribution)

When I talk to the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners and the National Police Chiefs C...

Anna Soubry | 619 c962 (Link to this contribution)

My right hon. Friend is actually making a very good case for why we ought to stay in the EU, but ...

Brandon Lewis | 619 c1241 (Link to this contribution)

I have been very clear about this, as has the Prime Minister: the country has voted to leave the ...

William Cash | 619 c1241 (Link to this contribution)

Does my right hon. Friend agree that of course matters relating to all the important questions he...

Brandon Lewis | 619 cc1241-963 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend makes an important point in that the work we have done across Europe—we have been ...

Robert Neill | 619 c963 (Link to this contribution)

I am glad that my right hon. Friend makes that point. May I make a point in relation to the inter...

Brandon Lewis | 619 c1242 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend makes a very good point in that there are different agreements in different parts ...

Baroness Brown of Silvertown | 619 cc1242-964 (Link to this contribution)

The official Opposition welcome this debate. In the run-up to the referendum in June last year an...

Danny Kinahan | 619 c964 (Link to this contribution)

Does the hon. Lady agree that for us in Northern Ireland, it is especially key that we keep our r...

Baroness Brown of Silvertown | 619 cc964-5 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. There are three main issues on which the Opposition seek ...

David TC Davies | 619 c965 (Link to this contribution)

I think that the hon. Lady has just made the point that I wanted to raise, which is that that pri...

Baroness Brown of Silvertown | 619 cc965-7 (Link to this contribution)

I have confidence that the European arrest warrant is far more powerful than any other extraditio...

Joanna Cherry | 619 c967 (Link to this contribution)

Is the hon. Lady aware that Rob Wainwright said last year that negotiating security pacts from ou...

Baroness Brown of Silvertown | 619 cc967-1245 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. and learned Lady is absolutely right. I agree with her that this simply is not good enou...

Keith Vaz | 619 c1247 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is making an impressive and powerful speech on this issue. Some of us may not now ...

Baroness Brown of Silvertown | 619 c968 (Link to this contribution)

My right hon. Friend is absolutely right. We are simply not getting any guarantees from our Gover...

Natascha Engel | 619 c968 (Link to this contribution)

I now have to announce the result of the Division deferred from a previous day. On the motion rel...

Lord Soames of Fletching | 619 cc968-9 (Link to this contribution)

If I may say so to the hon. Member for West Ham (Lyn Brown), whose speech I listened to very care...

Danny Kinahan | 619 c969 (Link to this contribution)

Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that we need to put all the pressure we can on President Trum...

Lord Soames of Fletching | 619 c970 (Link to this contribution)

I very strongly agree with the hon. Gentleman. That is very important. I have high hopes that the...

Julian Lewis | 619 c970 (Link to this contribution)

Before my right hon. Friend gets back to his main oration, I would like to draw attention to the ...

Lord Soames of Fletching | 619 c1248 (Link to this contribution)

My right hon. Friend is spot-on, and I am sure these matters will play out. If one looks at the w...

Joanna Cherry | 619 cc1248-973 (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure and an honour to follow the right hon. Member for Mid Sussex (Sir Nicholas Soame...

Robert Neill | 619 cc973-4 (Link to this contribution)

It is always a pleasure to follow the hon. and learned Member for Edinburgh South West (Joanna Ch...

David TC Davies | 619 c974 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is making some good points, but would he concur, given that we are fellow members ...

Robert Neill | 619 c974 (Link to this contribution)

I thought that that issue might be raised, and I was going to say that that does not alter the im...

Keith Vaz | 619 c974 (Link to this contribution)

It is a great pleasure to serve under the hon. Gentleman’s chairmanship of the Justice Committee....

Robert Neill | 619 cc974-5 (Link to this contribution)

I accept that that is a significant issue, but the two amendments achieved two things. First, the...

Richard Arkless | 619 c975 (Link to this contribution)

It is indeed a privilege, as mentioned by others, to serve on the Justice Committee under the hon...

Robert Neill | 619 cc975-6 (Link to this contribution)

It is certainly clear from the available evidence that the Government will need to take that nece...

Joanna Cherry | 619 c976 (Link to this contribution)

I hear what the hon. Gentleman says about Norway, but is he aware that the Prime Minister, in her...

Robert Neill | 619 c976 (Link to this contribution)

Prior to the referendum, neither the hon. and learned Lady, the Prime Minister nor I would have w...

Yvette Cooper | 619 cc976-8 (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to follow my fellow Select Committee Chair, the hon. Member for Bromley and Chis...

Keith Vaz | 619 c978 (Link to this contribution)

I congratulate my right hon. Friend on all the excellent work that she is doing as Chair of the H...

Yvette Cooper | 619 c1250 (Link to this contribution)

I thank my right hon. Friend for what he has said, and commend him for his many years of fantasti...

James Berry | 619 c1250 (Link to this contribution)

The right hon. Lady will be well aware that there are a number of different options for immigrati...

Yvette Cooper | 619 cc1250-981 (Link to this contribution)

I am glad that a fellow member of the Home Affairs Committee has reminded me to say that people a...

James Berry | 619 c981 (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford (Yvette...

Robert Neill | 619 cc982-1251 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend makes a powerful point. Is he aware that similar evidence exists in relation to th...

James Berry | 619 cc1251-983 (Link to this contribution)

I entirely agree with my hon. Friend. In fact, I do not think that a single senior police officer...

Keith Vaz | 619 c983 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Gentleman is the Chamber’s resident expert on Prüm. Does he agree that it is important t...

James Berry | 619 c1252 (Link to this contribution)

Pending the negotiations, we should continue down the path of integration in all these policing a...

Julian Lewis | 619 c1252 (Link to this contribution)

I am not an expert on this subject, but there is concern that, under the European arrest warrant,...

James Berry | 619 c984 (Link to this contribution)

I am sure we will hear my right hon. Friend’s expertise in the defence field in a few moments. Th...

Robert Neill | 619 c984 (Link to this contribution)

Perhaps my hon. Friend would like to know that that was the view of the Criminal Solicitors Assoc...

James Berry | 619 cc984-5 (Link to this contribution)

I thank my hon. Friend for his helpful intervention.

There are many other measures that I c...

Hilary Benn | 619 cc985-9 (Link to this contribution)

This is a very important debate and, as it comes the day after the Prime Minister’s very importan...

Ben Howlett | 619 cc989-990 (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Leeds Central (Hilary Benn), and may I comme...

William Cash | 619 c991 (Link to this contribution)

On the issue of the European arrest warrant, which was debated extensively in previous Parliament...

Ben Howlett | 619 cc991-1257 (Link to this contribution)

I thank my hon. Friend for intervening. The Prime Minister said yesterday in her speech that this...

Alex Chalk | 619 c1257 (Link to this contribution)

Does my hon. Friend agree that UK intelligence agencies, including individuals working in my cons...

Ben Howlett | 619 cc1257-992 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is a great champion of the security services, particularly those that are in his c...

Tristram Hunt | 619 cc992-4 (Link to this contribution)

It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Bath (Ben Howlett). I rise to speak in this ...

William Cash | 619 c1259 (Link to this contribution)

It is an enormous pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent Central (Tristram Hunt). ...

Paul Farrelly | 619 c995 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the hon. Gentleman, who is my constituency neighbour, for giving way. Does he agree that ...

William Cash | 619 cc1261-1000 (Link to this contribution)

Absolutely. We are indebted to the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent Central for that. We have all t...

Tulip Siddiq | 619 cc1262-1002 (Link to this contribution)

First, I would like to pay a personal tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Stoke-on-Trent Cen...

David TC Davies | 619 cc1002-4 (Link to this contribution)

I think that, in the aftermath of the 11 September attacks, it was recognised that something had ...

William Cash | 619 c1004 (Link to this contribution)

There is another problem that the European Scrutiny Committee has looked at in the past, when we ...

David TC Davies | 619 c1264 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend makes an important point.

I have listened with great interest to what has be...

Kelly Tolhurst | 619 c1264 (Link to this contribution)

Does my hon. Friend agree that the EAW has benefited some of our constituents? Four days before C...

David TC Davies | 619 cc1266-1005 (Link to this contribution)

I do not deny that for one moment; the EAW has led to some very important results for us, where w...

Stuart C McDonald | 619 cc1005-7 (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Monmouth (David T. C. Davies), even if I do not al...

Liz Saville Roberts | 619 cc1007-9 (Link to this contribution)

It is an honour to follow the hon. Member for Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East (Stuart...

Tommy Sheppard | 619 cc1009-1010 (Link to this contribution)

As the hon. Member for Hampstead and Kilburn (Tulip Siddiq) observed, one of the disadvantages of...

Joanna Cherry | 619 c1010 (Link to this contribution)

Will my hon. Friend confirm that polling released this afternoon shows widespread support in Scot...

Tommy Sheppard | 619 cc1010-1 (Link to this contribution)

Indeed. Members will think that we prepared that exchange, but we did not. It is worth quoting th...

Sarah Olney | 619 cc1011-3 (Link to this contribution)

The Prime Minister made it clear in her speech yesterday that one of her objectives in exiting th...

Keith Vaz | 619 cc1013-4 (Link to this contribution)

It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Richmond Park (Sarah Olney). Her constituenc...

Jim Cunningham | 619 c1014 (Link to this contribution)

Many years ago, when I was a member of the Home Affairs Committee, we went to Holland to see a de...

Keith Vaz | 619 cc1014-7 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is right. He knew about it then, and I have reminded him.

I know the Ministe...

Baroness Chapman of Darlington | 619 cc1016-275 (Link to this contribution)

This has been an important debate, if a somewhat select affair, and there have been many excellen...

David Jones | 619 cc276-1020 (Link to this contribution)

May I say what an excellent debate this has been? It has been a debate of very high calibre. Inde...

William Cash | 619 c1020 (Link to this contribution)

In my speech, and when the Minister came before the European Scrutiny Committee, I referred to th...

David Jones | 619 cc311-322 (Link to this contribution)

As my hon. Friend pointed out, there is clearly now a change in the staffing of COREPER so far as...

David Jones | 619 cc326-1021 (Link to this contribution)

Forgive me, but I have very little time.

Again, that will be a good basis for continuing th...

Keith Vaz | 619 c1021 (Link to this contribution)

I will be brief as I know that the Minister has limited time. Will he clarify one point? He said ...

David Jones | 619 cc334-340 (Link to this contribution)

The right hon. Gentleman is absolutely right to upbraid me. The negotiations are at such an early...

Yvette Cooper | 619 c340 (Link to this contribution)

For clarification, the Exiting the European Union Committee has been given evidence suggesting th...

David Jones | 619 cc340-734 (Link to this contribution)

The position, as I understand it, is as I have just stated, but now that the right hon. Lady has ...

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Disclosure of information Databases Counter-terrorism Criminal records Criminal investigation Administration of justice Cross border cooperation DNA National security European Court of Justice Europol European arrest warrants Brexit
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