{"id":85392,"date":"2017-10-16T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=5cbb85df13749fcec4f450232f831add"},"modified":"2017-10-18T13:08:05","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T13:08:05","slug":"press-release-progress-made-at-eu-talks-with-devolved-governments-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=85392","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Progress made at EU talks with devolved governments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Updated:<\/em> Translation added<\/p>\n<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Agreement has been reached between the UK Government and the devolved administrations on the principles that will underpin the process for bringing back powers from the EU to the UK.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement came at a Joint Ministerial Committee (EN)  in London today chaired by the First Secretary of State Damian Green MP with the Scottish and Welsh Governments. A representative from the Northern Ireland civil service also attended.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"the-first-secretary-of-state-damian-green-said\">The First Secretary of State Damian Green said:<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Following a set of constructive discussions with the Scottish and Welsh Governments, we have today agreed a set of principles that will underpin the process of repatriating EU powers.<\/p>\n<p>On the day when the UK leaves the EU, all parts of the UK need to be ready. It is the government\u2019s intention that the EU Withdrawal Bill will ensure a strong UK internal market, while safeguarding and adding to the decision-making powers of the devolved administrations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">These principles will hopefully now pave the way to agreeing a set of frameworks that will deliver vital certainty and continuity for people and businesses across the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 id=\"note-to-editors\">Note to editors<\/h3>\n<p>The communique from the meeting can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/joint-ministerial-committee-communique-16-october-2017\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alun Cairns attends Joint Ministerial Committee (EN) meeting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85477,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85392\/revisions\/85477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}