One of the important principles that those business organisations have stressed is the essential nature of having contractual and legal c

My constituents in Bromley and Chislehurst welcome the emphasis given to financial services, our largest employer.

I welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement that a fresh Conservative Government would be committed to ongoing prison reform.

May I commend to the Secretary of State and to the House the Justice Committee’s report on the implications of leaving the European Union

The Minister’s answer on the former point is absolutely right, but does he also accept that another variable, perhaps of greater practica

That is absolutely right.

I thank my hon. Friend for his contribution and for his work on the Committee, which has been tireless.

I do not think that it is an either/or, but I appreciate the spirit in which the hon.

That issue has been raised in evidence, and there are differing views on the impact of larger or smaller units.

I thank the Backbench Business Committee for giving me the opportunity to present the Committee’s 12th report of the 2016-17 Session, and