Motion
The Prime Minister
That this House approves for the purposes of section 13(1)(b) of
the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 the following documents
laid before the House on Monday 11 March 2019:
(1) the negotiated withdrawal agreement titled ‘Agreement on the
withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy
Community’;
(2) the framework for the future relationship titled ‘Political
Declaration setting out the framework for the future relationship
between the European Union and the United Kingdom’;
(3) the legally binding joint instrument titled ‘Instrument
relating to the Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and
the European Atomic Energy Community’, which reduces the risk the
UK could be deliberately held in the Northern Ireland backstop
indefinitely and commits the UK and the EU to work to replace the
backstop with alternative arrangements by December 2020;
(4) the unilateral declaration by the UK titled ‘Declaration by
Her Majesty’s Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Northern Ireland concerning the Northern Ireland Protocol’,
setting out the sovereign action the UK would take to provide
assurance that the backstop would only be applied temporarily;
and
(5) the supplement to the framework for the future relationship
titled ‘Joint Statement supplementing the Political Declaration
setting out the framework for the future relationship between the
European Union and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland’, setting out commitments by the UK and the EU
to expedite the negotiation and bringing into force of their
future relationship.
