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Legislation: United Kingdom Internal Market Bill - report stage (day 1) Part 1of2
18 Nov 2020
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Relevant documents:
Delegated Powers Committee 24th, 26th and 29th Reports
Constitution Committee 17th Report
Joint Committee on Human Rights 8th Report

Amendment 1
Moved by Lord Hope of Craighead:
1: After Clause 1, insert the following new Clause—

“Common frameworks process

(1) The United Kingdom market access principles shall not apply to any statutory provision or requirement that gives effect to a decision to diverge from harmonised rules that has been agreed through the common frameworks process.
(2) No regulations may be made by a Minister of the Crown with regard to a matter that is under consideration under the common frameworks process while that process in relation to that matter is still in progress.
(3) The “common frameworks process” is a means, established by the Joint Ministerial Committee on European Negotiations, by which a measure of regulatory consistency to enable a functioning internal market within the United Kingdom may be mutually agreed between the United Kingdom and devolved governments.”

'My Lords, I wish to move the first of three amendments in this group, which consists of Amendments 1, 38 and 51.
They address the rules for the mutual recognition of goods in Part 1 of the Bill, of services in Part 2 and of professional qualifications in Part 3.

They are all directed to the same essential point: the relationship between the common frameworks process and the internal market that the Bill seeks to create. Underlying this is a question which goes to the heart of the relationship between the Governments of the four nations in this United Kingdom.

There are two ways in which our internal market can be created. Is this to be a market created by all four nations working together, as they are doing through the common frameworks process, or is it to be created by imposition from Westminster, as the Bill seeks to do?

If it is the latter, do the Government really support devolution, as the Prime Minister is now asking us to believe? Actions speak louder than words. How the Government respond to these amendments will tell us where the truth lies.'

Division 1 Amendment 1
Content 367
Not Content 209
Amendment 1 agreed.

Division 2 Amendment 7
Content 327
Not Content 223
Amendment 7 agreed.