I haven’t got time.

I welcome the fact that Spain, for example, is saying that this is going to be a priority with negotiations, because they accept this needs to be dealt with also.

As the Labour and Plaid Cymru White Paper states, cross-border collaboration in research and development, such as Horizon 2020, and international exchange programmes, such as ERASMUS+, should continue after the UK has left the EU. We therefore welcome reference in the UK Government White Paper to its close engagement with the science and research base, including a high-level stakeholder working group on EU exit, universities, research and innovation, to ensure that the UK builds on its strong global position in research and innovation excellence.

The UK Government White Paper also states that no decisions currently taken by the devolved administrations will be taken away from them and, indeed, that more decisions will be devolved. The Labour and Plaid Cymru White Paper calls for a UK framework to provide legal underpinning for effective regulation of issues such as environment, agriculture and fisheries, which are heavily governed by EU law.

The Welsh Conservatives support the exploration and creation of UK-wide frameworks in respect of these issues and others, including structural funds and higher education. These frameworks need to take into account all nations in the UK and safeguard the necessary funding and resources to ensure they can deliver for Wales.

The Welsh Conservatives are clear: as echoed by the Prime Minister, there will be no land grab on competencies that are under the current power of devolved administrations. This must respect the current devolved settlement as funding, schemes and initiatives are returned from the EU. The Welsh Conservatives have written to the Prime Minister, making the case for agriculture to be given priority in the exit negotiations. And speaking in Wales last week, the UK DEFRA Secretary expressed her determination to secure export markets for high-quality Welsh produce after we have left the EU.

As the Prime Minister said in her Lancaster House speech last month,

‘I want us to be a truly Global Britain—the best friend and neighbour to our European partners, but a country that reaches beyond the borders of Europe too. A country that goes out into the world to build relationships with old friends and new allies alike. I want Britain to be what we have the potential, talent and ambition to be. A great, global trading nation that is respected around the world and strong, confident and united at home.

‘It’s not simply because our history and culture is profoundly internationalist, important though that is. Many in Britain have always felt that the United Kingdom’s place in the European Union came at the expense of our global ties, and of a bolder embrace of free trade with the wider world.’

She said:

‘As a priority, we will pursue a bold and ambitious free trade agreement with the European Union. This agreement should allow for the freest possible trade in goods and services between Britain and the EU’s member states. It should give British companies the maximum freedom to trade with and operate within European markets—and let European businesses do the same in Britain.

‘But I want to be clear. What I am proposing cannot mean membership of the single market. European leaders have said many times that membership means accepting the ‘4 freedoms’ of goods, capital, services and people. And being out of the EU but a member of the single market would mean complying with the EU’s rules and regulations that implement those freedoms, without having a vote on what those rules and regulations are. It would mean accepting a role for the European Court of Justice that would see it still having direct legal authority in our country. It would to all intents and purposes mean not leaving the EU at all. And that is why both sides in the referendum campaign made it clear that a vote to leave the EU would be a vote to leave the single market.’

She said:

‘So we do not seek membership of the single market. Instead we seek the greatest possible’—[Interruption.] You live in a dreamland. [Interruption]

‘Instead we seek the greatest possible access to it through a new, comprehensive, bold and ambitious free trade agreement’—[Interruption.]