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Lord Callanan (Con)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 17 June 2025

Debate

Gibraltar

Contribution

My Lords, as we still have some time, perhaps I could ask for some further clarification from the Minister. First, she said on a couple of occasions that the checks the Spanish officials will do at the border will be Schengen checks. Is she therefore saying that Gibraltar will be joining Schengen, that it will be part of Schengen? I believe that in the other place the Foreign Secretary said that it will not. The second question flows from that. Under the current Schengen arrangements, a British citizen and passport holder is allowed to spend only 90 out of 180 days in the Schengen area. Is the Minister therefore saying that a British passport holder who may own property in Gibraltar—many do—will be able to spend only 90 days out of 180 in Gibraltar, even if they never set foot in Spain? These are important points. The detail matters with these things, and of course, we have not seen the agreement yet. The other question is one that she did not answer in her initial contribution. Can she tell us when we will actually see the agreement?

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