Member

On Amendment 52, Parliament has already agreed on the general principles of the Bill. It has passed Second Reading in both Houses and further stages in the other place, and Parliament has not voted against ratification through the CRaG process. This requirement for further approval from Parliament for the payments would ignore the thorough and correct process that the treaty and the Bill have already gone through and risk undermining the treaty, since non-payment by the UK is grounds for termination.