Debate on select committee report on Thursday, 26 February 2026, in the House of Lords, led by Lord Ricketts. The answering member was Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent.

Resetting the UK-EU Relationship (European Affairs Committee Report)

Lords motion to take note of the first report of the European Affaors Committee on Unfinished Business: Resetting the UK-EU relationship (HL 202). Agreed to on question.

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Type: Parliamentary proceeding
Reference: 853 cc755-793
Session: 2024-26
Department: Cabinet Office; European Affairs Committee
Chamber / Committee: House of Lords chamber
Related items: Unfinished business: resetting the UK-EU relationship. European Affairs Committee first report
Tuesday, 4 November 2025
Parliamentary committees
House of Lords
Proceeding contributions: Lord Katz | 853 c755 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, before the first debate gets under way, I want to highlight the four-minute advisory ti...; Lord Ricketts | 853 cc755-9 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am delighted to lead this debate on the report from the European Affairs Committee, w...; Lord Stirrup | 853 cc758-760 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I add my thanks to all the witnesses who contributed to this report, to the committee s...; Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 853 cc760-733 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I also thank the noble Lord, Lord Ricketts, for his measured, calm chairmanship of the ...; Lord Tugendhat | 853 cc733-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it is a pleasure to speak after the noble Baroness, whose service in Brussels was so di...; Baroness Suttie | 853 cc735-763 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I too congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Ricketts. It is a credit to his diplomatic chai...; Lord Dodds of Duncairn | 853 cc763-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I welcome the publication of this report, but the process in these negotiations is very...; Lord Howell of Guildford | 853 cc764-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am very glad that the title of the excellent report we are discussing refers to a “re...; Duke of Wellington | 853 cc765-6 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I pay tribute to the noble Lord, Lord Ricketts, who has chaired the European Affairs Co...; Lord Redwood | 853 cc766-740 (Link to this contribution)
I welcome the Government’s emphasis on growth and I look forward to future debates when we can ex...; Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town | 853 cc767-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it was a pleasure to serve under the chairmanship of the noble Lord, Lord Ricketts, who...; Lord Frost | 853 cc768-746 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, as I follow the noble Baroness, Lady Hayter, noble Lords will get an encapsulation of t...; Baroness Coffey | 853 cc769-771 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it is nearly a decade since 23 June 2016, when I voted to remain, and campaigned to sta...; Lord Jay of Ewelme | 853 cc771-2 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, this is a full and comprehensive report from the European Affairs Committee, although p...; Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 853 cc772-3 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, this is an important report, not least because we are the only committee with the bespo...; Lord Liddle | 853 cc773-751 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I join in the congratulations to the noble Lord, Lord Ricketts, on the excellent report...; Lord Katz | 853 c751 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords—; Lord Liddle | 853 cc774-754 (Link to this contribution)
I am finishing—and it is an advisory speaking time.
On defence, we face huge challenges. Th...; Lord Barrow | 853 cc754-775 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I will seek to be quick, not just because we were advised to be so but because I find m...; Lord Taylor of Warwick | 853 cc775-6 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Ricketts, for introducing this important debate. My thanks...; Baroness Lawlor | 853 cc776-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the Government’s EU trade reset has failed to achieve its three main trade objectives, ...; Lord Kerr of Kinlochard | 853 cc764-778 (Link to this contribution)
It is an excellent report and very well presented, but I wonder why the negotiation has to be so ...; Lord Empey | 853 cc766-779 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, in his opening remarks, the noble Lord, Lord Ricketts, pointed out that the European Af...; Lord Murphy of Torfaen | 853 cc779-780 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I very much welcome the report of the committee, very ably introduced by the noble Lord...; Lord Hannay of Chiswick | 853 cc780-1 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the report we are debating today, so ably introduced by my noble friend Lord Ricketts, ...; Lord Moynihan of Chelsea | 853 cc781-773 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, before commencing, I, too, protest the four-minute limit—hardly enough time to clear on...; Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle | 853 cc773-783 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Ricketts, and the committee, for the report and the noble ...; Lord Wallace of Saltaire | 853 cc783-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I express my sympathy to the noble Baroness, Lady Finn, who has to wind up and present ...; Lord Inglewood | 853 cc784-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, as I look back over the last decade in Brexit Britain, I am ever more convinced that th...; Baroness Meyer | 853 cc785-6 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, today’s debate is ultimately about the national interest. Would a closer relationship w...; Earl of Clancarty | 853 cc786-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the title of the report is Unfinished Business, and the quicker we finish the business ...; Lord Whitty | 853 cc787-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, as the 29th speaker, I fear that many of my original points have disappeared, but the n...; Lord Elliott of Mickle Fell | 853 cc788-9 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, as speaker number 31, I am relieved to have picked an aspect of the report that has yet...; Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho | 853 cc789-790 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Ricketts, and the European Affairs Committee on the...; Lord Lilley | 853 cc782-792 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I congratulate the committee on trying to establish the Government’s reset negotiating ...; Baroness Ludford | 853 cc792-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am delighted to take part in this debate. I have recently been chucked off the Europe...; Baroness Finn | 853 cc793-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I welcome this opportunity to debate the European Affairs Committee’s report on resetti...; Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent | 853 cc795-803 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I thank all noble Lords on the European Affairs Committee for their wide-ranging and co...; Baroness Ludford | 853 c803 (Link to this contribution)
I evidently did not make myself clear. I did not say that the Government want free movement inwar...; Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent | 853 cc804-790 (Link to this contribution)
The scheme will have a cap and quota both ways. On fisheries, I will write to the noble Baroness ...; Lord Ricketts | 853 cc790-805 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I thank the Minister for such a comprehensive speech—delivered at pace, if I may say so...
Subjects: Defence Contributions Animal products Cross border cooperation Fisheries Extradition Energy Electricity Law and order Food EU budget Import controls EU emissions trading scheme Qualifications Professions Parliamentary scrutiny Plants EU defence policy Carbon emissions Visas Performing arts Young people UK trade with EU UK emissions trading scheme Windsor Framework UK relations with EU Erasmus+ programme UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement Security action for Europe
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Resetting the UK-EU Relationship (European Affairs Committee Report)

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