Extract from Commons
debate on the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018
(Ross, Skye and Lochaber)
(SNP):...Let us look at the facts. The UK’s trade with
County Cork is worth almost as much as its entire trade with South
Africa. Trade with Ireland is worth more to the UK than trade
with India, Japan, New Zealand and Australia
put together. As “Scotland’s Place in Europe” demonstrated, even if
the UK signs agreements with the 10 biggest non-EEA single country
trading partners, including the USA, China and Canada—a process
that would take many years—that would cover only 37%
of Scotland’s current exports. In contrast, 43%
currently go to the European Union. The idea that we will be better
off outside the European Union is a fallacy...
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Extract from Lords motion
to approve the Ship Recycling (Facilities and Requirements for
Hazardous Materials on Ships) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations
2019
(Lab): My Lords, I
very much support the noble Baroness’s comments on this SI. It is
designed to put some regulation around the breaking up of ships.
As we all know—and as the noble Baroness said—it is a difficult
and possibly polluting process. There was a time, a few years
ago, when a shipyard in the UK was breaking up ships that had
been towed across from the United States because they were not
allowed to be broken up there. I have always thought that our
environmental regulations were supposed to be better than theirs.
They certainly were not then. Why they were not towed to India or
Bangladesh, heaven only knows, because it is even worse
there...
...Does the list include places such as
Bangladesh, India and other places outside the
EU or the UK? They are major centres for ship recycling and I am
sure that many noble Lords will have seen the revolting
conditions that people have to work in to cut up old ships on the
beaches...
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department
for Transport (Baroness Sugg) (Con): No facilities on
the UK list are in Bangladesh, India or Pakistan, but I will send
the noble Lord the full list.
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Extract from Lords
motion to consider the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments
(Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019
The Advocate-General for Scotland (Lord Keen of
Elie) (Con):...Secondly, if we embrace the Brussels Ia
regime without being a member of the EU, we would be
discriminating between the EU 27 jurisdiction and all the other
third-party countries. We would be giving some benefits to the EU
27 under Brussels Ia, albeit without reciprocity, but we would
not be giving the same benefit to third-party countries such as
the United States, India and China, and Commonwealth
countries such as Australia and New Zealand. That raises real
issues about discrimination in the context of wider issues on
services and so on...
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