division_name: The Government's Plan for Brexit
motion: <p class="indent" pid="b220.2/2" pwmotiontext="yes">That this House recognises that leaving the EU is the defining issue facing the UK; notes the resolution on parliamentary scrutiny of the UK leaving the EU agreed by the House on <phrase class="date" code="2016-10-12">12 October</phrase> 2016; recognises that it is Parliament&#8217;s responsibility to properly scrutinise the Government while respecting the decision of the British people to leave the European Union; confirms that there should be no disclosure of material that could be reasonably judged to damage the UK in any negotiations to depart from the European Union after Article 50 has been triggered; and calls on the Prime Minister to commit to publishing the Government&#8217;s plan for leaving the EU before Article 50 is invoked.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b223.5/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;that there should be no disclosure of material that could be reasonably judged to damage the UK&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b224.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;As I have said several times in debates that the hon. Gentleman has attended&#8221;&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b224.0/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;I will make as much information public as possible without prejudicing our negotiating position.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2016-10-20">20 October</phrase> 2016; Vol. 615, c. 952.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b226.7/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The OBR&#8217;s published forecasts shall be based on all government decisions and all other circumstances that may have a material impact on the fiscal outlook.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b226.7/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;a formal statement of Government policy as regards its desired trade regime and system of migration control, as a basis for our projections&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b226.7/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The Government directed us to two public statements by the Prime Minister that it stated were relevant&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b226.7/9" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Perhaps understandably, the Government&#8217;s response leaves us little the wiser as regards the choices and trade-offs that the Government might make during the negotiations&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b230.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;, consistently with the principles agreed without division by this House on <phrase class="date" code="2016-10-12">12 October</phrase>; recognises that this House should respect the wishes of the United Kingdom as expressed in the referendum on <phrase class="date" code="2016-06-23">23 June</phrase>; and further calls on the Government to invoke Article 50 by <phrase class="date" code="2016-03-31">31 March</phrase> 2017.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b230.2/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;with the principles agreed without division by this House on <phrase class="date" code="2016-10-12">12 October</phrase>&#8221;,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b230.2/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;recognises that this House should respect the wishes of the United Kingdom as expressed in the referendum on <phrase class="date" code="2016-06-23">23 June</phrase>; and further calls on the Government to invoke Article 50 by <phrase class="date" code="2016-03-31">31 March</phrase> 2017.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b233.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;A certain level of confidentiality is necessary to protect EU interests and to keep chances for a satisfactory outcome high. When entering into a game, no-one starts by revealing his entire strategy to his counterpart from the outset: this is also the case for the EU.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b236.3/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Our plan is to deliver control of the movement of people from the European Union into the United Kingdom.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2016-11-16">16 November</phrase> 2016; Vol. 617, c. 230.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b239.2/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the over-riding priority is to retain access to it&#8221;?</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b241.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;it is important to have clarity over the negotiation process as soon as possible in order to reduce uncertainty&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b242.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;a political restriction upon Parliament&#8217;s ability to act, no more and no less than that&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b242.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The governments are agreed that the referendum should&#8230;have a clear legal base&#8221;&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b242.1/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;be legislated for by the Scottish Parliament;&#8230;be conducted so as to command the confidence of parliaments, governments and people; and&#8230;deliver a fair test and a decisive expression of the views of people&#8230;and a result that everyone will respect.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b242.1/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The two governments are committed to continue to work together constructively in the light of the outcome, whatever it is, in the best interests of the people of Scotland and of the rest of the United Kingdom.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b243.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The legislation is about holding a vote; it makes no provision for what follows. The referendum is advisory&#8221;.&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2016-06-16">16 June</phrase> 2015; Vol. 597, c. 231.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b243.1/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;I haven&#8217;t really heard how the British government want to tackle Brexit or what Brexit really means.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b243.1/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;who wants a divorce, but &#8220;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b243.1/9" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;keep all the assets and the family home.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b243.1/11" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;We are very much heartened by the fact that Scotland voted to stay in the EU. We would be very supportive of ensuring that Scotland&#8217;s voice is heard during the UK negotiations, as well as the voices of our fellow Celts north of the Border, who also voted to stay within the EU.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b247.1/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Forty pro-EU Conservative MPs defy the will of the people to &#8216;side with Labour&#8217;&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b247.1/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;While others have seemingly made clear they want to frustrate the will of the British people, the Government is pressing on with it.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b252.2/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;a thought-out arrangement or method for doing something&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b253.1/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Our feeble system of scrutiny undermines Parliament&#8217;s ability to check or restrain the Government&#8217;s action in Europe&#8230;We therefore need a system that gives Parliament real powers over ministers, enough time to scrutinise, and the transparency to restore public trust in the process.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b254.3/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Some Leavers claim the result as a mandate for whatever arrangement they happened to want.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b268.4/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;don&#8217;t bind my hands when I am negotiating&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b271.0/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;there should be no disclosure of material that could be reasonably judged to damage the UK in any negotiations to depart from the European Union after Article 50 has been triggered&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b274.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;We say: yes to the Single Market&#8221;?</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b274.1/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;I never had a plan of operations&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b274.1/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b282.0/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Unless the final settlement proves to be acceptable, then the option of retaining EU membership should be retained. The final settlement should therefore be subject to approval, through Parliament and potentially through a general election or referendum.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b283.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;this House recognises that leaving the EU is the defining issue facing the UK; believes that there should be a full and transparent debate on the Government&#8217;s plan for leaving the EU; and calls on the Prime Minister to ensure that this House is able properly to scrutinise that plan for leaving the EU before Article 50 is invoked&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b287.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;When your plan meets the real world, the real world wins. Nothing goes as planned. Errors pile up. Mistaken suppositions come back to bite you. The most brilliant plan loses touch with reality.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b292.3/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The Union shall develop a special relationship with neighbouring countries, aiming to establish an area of prosperity&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b292.3/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;shall contribute to peace, security . . . mutual respect among peoples&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b292.3/8" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;free and fair trade&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b295.2/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Our laws made not in Brussels but in Westminster.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b295.2/4" pwmotiontext="yes">Our judges sitting not in Luxembourg but in courts across the land.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b295.2/5" pwmotiontext="yes">The authority of EU law in this country ended forever.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b295.2/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;I want it to include cooperation on law enforcement and counter-terrorism work.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b295.2/8" pwmotiontext="yes">I want it to involve free trade, in goods and services.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b295.2/9" pwmotiontext="yes">I want it to give British companies the maximum freedom to trade with and operate within the Single Market&#8212;and let European businesses do the same here.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b295.2/10" pwmotiontext="yes">But let&#8217;s state one thing loud and clear: we are not leaving the European Union only to give up control of immigration all over again. And we are not leaving only to return to the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice. That&#8217;s not going to happen.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b302.2/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The legislation is about holding a vote; it makes no provision for what follows. The referendum is advisory&#8221;.&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2016-06-16">16 June</phrase> 2015; Vol. 597, c. 231.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b306.7/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Their activities are against the democratically expressed wishes of the people in Northern Ireland. They continue to seek relevance and inflict harm on a society that overwhelmingly rejects them&#8221;&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b306.7/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Their support is very limited. Northern Ireland&#8217;s future will only be determined by democracy and consent.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2016-06-30">30 June</phrase> 2016; Vol. 612, c. 13WS.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b311.3/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;a full and transparent debate on the Government&#8217;s plan&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b311.3/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;scrutinise that plan for leaving the EU before Article 50 is invoked&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b311.3/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Parliament be kept at least as informed as, and better informed than, the European Parliament&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2016-10-12">12 October</phrase> 2016; Vol. 615, c. 332.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b312.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;not undermine the negotiating position of the Government as negotiations are entered into&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b312.1/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;navigating our exit from the EU will not be an easy process, and it will require shrewd negotiating&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b312.1/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;must put the national interest first&#8221;.&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2016-10-12">12 October</phrase> 2016; Vol. 615, c. 323.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b312.1/10" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;mysticism which appeals to European&#8230; federalists&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b312.1/12" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;If we had been able to say that we agreed in principle, we could have got whatever kind of common market we wanted. I have no doubt of that at all.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b315.2/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;to ensure that this House is able properly to scrutinise that plan for leaving the EU before Article 50 is invoked&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b315.2/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;red, white and blue Brexit&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="b327.1/6" pwmotiontext="yes">The House divided:</p>
  
  <p pid="b327.1/7" pwmotiontext="yes">Ayes 461, Noes 89.</p>