Research Briefing
Yvette Cooper’s Private Member’s Bill explained
Yvette Cooper’s Bill provides a role for MPs in the process of ‘extending’ Article 50. What would it do and how would it fit into the broader Brexit process?
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Insight
Yvette Cooper’s Private Member’s Bill explained
Yvette Cooper’s Bill provides a role for MPs in the process of 'extending' Article 50. What would it do and how would it fit into the broader Brexit process?
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Research Briefing
European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 4) Bill 2017-19
Yvette Cooper presented a Private Member's bill, the European Union (No. 4) Bill 2017-19, on Wednesday 13 February 2019. The Bill would create a legal mechanism whereby the House of Commons can instruct the Prime Minister to ask the European Council for an extension to Article 50 in the absence of an approval resolution for an exit deal from the EU.
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Debate Pack
Debate on a Motion relating to the UK’s withdrawal from the EU
A debate on a Motion relating to the UK's withdrawal from the EU has been scheduled for Thursday 14 February 2019 in the Main Chamber.
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Research Briefing
What if there’s no Brexit deal?
What could happen if the EU and UK negotiators don't agree a withdrawal agreement in time and the UK has to leave the EU on 29 March 2019 without one - and with no framework for future relations either? This paper looks at how such a situation might come about, the constitutional implications for the UK and in some cases for the devolved administrations, and what the impact might be in a range of policy areas.
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Debate Pack
E-petition 224908 relating to leaving the European Union
A Westminster Hall debate on 'E-petition 224908 relating to leaving the European Union' is scheduled for Monday 4 February from 4.30pm. The Member opening the debate is Paul Scully MP.
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Debate Pack
Government motion to provide additional Fridays to debate private Members’ bills
The Government has scheduled a debate today (30 January 2019) to provide additional sitting Fridays to consider private Members’ bills. Extra debating time is to be provided because the current session is expected to run for two years.
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Research Briefing
European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 3) Bill 2017-19
Yvette Cooper presented a Private Member's bill, the European Union (No. 3) Bill 2017-19, on Monday 21 January 2019. The Bill would create a legal mechanism whereby the House of Commons can instruct the Prime Minister to ask the European Council for an extension to Article 50 in the absence of an approval resolution for an exit deal from the EU.
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Research Briefing
European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 2) Bill 2017-19
Nick Boles MP presented a Private Members Bill on Tuesday 15 January 2019 to require the Government to request an extension to the Article 50 Brexit process in certain circumstances. This paper explains how this Bill proposes to give Parliament greater control over the Government's negotiations with the European Union. This Bill is expected to be superseded on Monday 21 January 2019 by another Bill in the name of Yvette Cooper, but which does not provide a statutory role for the Liaison Committee.
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Research Briefing
EU assurances to the UK on Brexit
The EU and UK negotiators agreed the texts of a Withdrawal Agreement and Political Declaration on a framework for a future EU-UK relationship, and the time came for the UK Parliament to vote on it. But on 15 January Parliament rejected the two documents by 230 votes. The EU has said there will be no renegotiating the texts but has offered assurances on the intention that the backstop arrangement to prevent a hard Irish border would be temporary if it had to be introduced. This paper looks at what the EU has offered by way of 'clarifications' and 'assurances' on the backstop and whether the EU would offer an extension to Article. 50 might .
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Research Briefing
Committee on Standards in Public Life
This note sets out the background to the creation of the Committee on Standards in Public Life in 1994 and provides details of its recent work. The note looks at its constitutional position and relationship to Parliament.
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Research Briefing
No confidence motions and early general elections
It is a core convention of the UK constitution that the Government must be able to command the confidence of the House of Commons. This convention governs both the appointment and resignation of Prime Ministers. The traditional position was that a Government that lost a confidence vote would resign in favour of an alternative administration,
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Research Briefing
The backstop explained
One of the major Brexit issues MPs are as yet unable to agree on is the ‘backstop’. Here we look at what the backstop is, if it’s likely to be used, and if the UK can then exit from it.
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Insight
The backstop explained
One of the major Brexit issues MPs are as yet unable to agree on is the ‘backstop’. Here we look at what the backstop is, if it’s likely to be used, and if the UK can then exit from it.
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