division_name: European Union (Withdrawal) Bill &#8212; Withdrawal Agreement Payment to the European Union
motion: <p class="indent" pid="b1126.3/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;We will take back control of our money&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1126.3/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Instead of handing over &#163;350m a week to Brussels we should be spending that money on local priorities&#8221;,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1132.2/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;an agreement...setting out the arrangements for its withdrawal, taking account of the framework for its future relationship with the Union.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1135.4/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the creation of tax-like charges, which go beyond recovering the direct cost of the provision of a service to a specific firm or individual, including to allow for potential cross-subsidisation or to cover the wider functions and running costs of a public body.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1135.4/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;A tax-like charge means a tax.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1135.4/8" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;should not be allowed in subordinate legislation. They are matters for Parliament, a principle central to the Bill of Rights 1688. Regulations under clauses 7 and 9 cannot impose or increase taxation.33 But regulations under Schedule 4 may.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1135.4/10" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;confer powers on public authorities to tax and they can do so in tertiary legislation that has no parliamentary scrutiny whatsoever.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1135.4/13" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;I find it inconceivable that we as a nation would be walking away from an obligation that we recognised as an obligation.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1135.4/15" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;That is just not a credible scenario. That&#8217;s not the kind of country we are and frankly it would not make us a credible partner for future international agreements.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1135.4/19" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Ministers are banking on Treasury budget wizards making the exit price look as small as possible.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1137.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;would not be in our national interest&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2017-11-29">29 November</phrase> 2017; Vol. 632, c. 327.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1137.1/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;what would a Conservative opposition do if a Labour party proposed to spend &#163;30bn, &#163;40bn or &#163;50bn without telling Parliament what it was doing with it?&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1137.1/8" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;It is very difficult for the Government to continue to say post-council that we cannot...set out how it is calculated&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1137.1/10" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;keep its promise to be as transparent as possible&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1142.0/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Regulations under this paragraph may (among other things)&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1143.3/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;may not be made for the purposes of&#8230;creating a fee or charge that does not replicate a fee or charge levied by an EU entity on exit day&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1143.5/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;increasing a fee or charge to an amount larger than an amount charged by an EU entity for the performance of the relevant function on exit day.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1148.0/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;a draft of the instrument authorising that payment&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1148.0/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;laid before, and approved by a resolution of the House of Commons.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="b1162.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">The House divided:</p>
  
  <p pid="b1162.0/4" pwmotiontext="yes">Ayes 288, Noes 316.</p>