2023 March

The House voted on the Windsor Framework (Democratic Scrutiny) Regulations 2023. New UK legislation will be required to implement some of the Framework, for example amending the Northern Ireland Act 1998 to implement the “Stormont Brake”. The Government announced that it would introduce secondary legislation to implement the Stormont Brake in the form of a Statutory Instrument (SI).

On Tuesday 21 March, at the end of the final day of the Budget debate, the House was asked to agree the Budget resolutions. 

There were two votes.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer set out the Government’s  Budget on 15 March 2023. The Budget was followed by four days of debate on the Budget Resolutions. Each day of debate covers a different policy area. I made a speech to the House on Tuesday 21 March 2023. Here is my speech: 

I attended a meeting with Parliamentarians from Ukraine on 14 March 2023. The meeting was chaired by John Howell MP (Henley) under the auspices of the Council of Europe. We discussed possible crimes of aggression by Russia.