| Author (Corporate) | United Kingdom: Department for Exiting the European Union |
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| Series Title | Press Release |
| Series Details | 13.11.17 |
| Publication Date | 13/11/2017 |
| Content Type | News |
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Background The exact details of the Withdrawal Agreement were the subject of ongoing and future negotiations and could not be known until those negotiations were near completion. Therefore a Bill separate to the EU (Withdrawal) Bill was required to legislate for the withdrawal arrangements and planned Implementation Period. The Bill was expected to cover the contents of the Withdrawal Agreement, including issues such as an agreement on citizens’ rights, any financial settlement and the details of an implementation period agreed between both sides. Bringing forward this Bill meant that Parliament would be given time to debate, scrutinise and vote on the final agreement the government struck with the EU. It came over and above the undertaking the Government had already made that it would give Parliament a vote on the final deal as soon as possible after the deal was agreed. The announcement of the Withdrawal Agreement and Implementation Bill came ahead of the EU (Withdrawal) Bill entering Committee Stage in the House of Commons on the 14 November 2017 when amendments would be debated by MPs. Day one of the Committee Stage would include debate about the first clause of the Bill which repealed the European Communities Act 1972. In the previous week, the Government had tabled an amendment to the Bill, putting exit day on the face of the Bill (29 March 2019) after Ministers had listened carefully to the debate around setting ‘exit day’ for the statutory purposes of the Bill. There would be two days of debate for the Withdrawal Bill’s Commons Committee Stage on the 14-15 November 2017. Further dates for debate would be scheduled in due course and announced by the Leader of the House.The United Kingdom Government took further steps to provide clarity and certainty as the UK prepared to leave the European Union by announcing on the 13 November 2017 a new Bill to enshrine the Withdrawal Agreement between the UK and the EU in domestic law. The Withdrawal Agreement and Implementation Bill would give legal standing to separation from the EU. It would confirm that the major policies set out in the Withdrawal Agreement would be directly implemented into domestic law by primary legislation – not by secondary legislation under the EU (Withdrawal) Bill. This would allow for Parliamentary scrutiny and oversight of the process. |
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| Source Link | https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-bill-to-implement-withdrawal-agreement |
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