While the technicalities and timings of our departure from the EU continue to be debated at Westminster, MPs have also been working on post-Brexit immigration policy.
This will be very important after we leave the EU.
When we leave the EU, freedom of movement for EU citizens in the UK will come to an end..
However, we also have to ensure our key industries including fishing and farming, our NHS, social care and hospitality sectors have access to the workers they need.
Sitting on Westminster’s Public Bill Committee for the Immigration and Social Care Co-ordination Bill, I have been looking closely at these complex issues.
Some of the opposition amendments to the immigration bill, particularly from the SNP, are simply unworkable – and many have already been withdrawn by those members.
The Nationalists want a differentiated immigration system for Scotland. This is not surprising in itself, as the SNP want independence and will do anything to further that goal.
But if you take a step back, it makes very little sense for Scotland to have its own immigration system.
For starters, there is the practical issue of the land border with the rest of the UK, which would make it very difficult to track or control the movement of people once they arrived here.
Secondly, the SNP argue that ‘Scotland is different!’ I would suggest that there is just as much variety and commonality of labour demand within Scotland as there is across the United Kingdom.
For example, the labour demand for a fruit farm in Angus has more in common with a fruit farm in East Anglia than that of the Central Belt.
Similarly, the hospitality sector in the Lake District relies as heavily on workers from outside the UK - as the industry does in the Highlands.
This should be seen for what it is – another attempt to drive a wedge between Scotland and the rest of the UK to boost the cause of separation.
I have also been concerned about scaremongering in recent weeks about the fate of EU citizens here in the UK in the event of a ‘no deal’ Brexit outcome.
I was pleased to receive confirmation on this issue from Immigration Minister Caroline Nokes in the Commons chamber last week.
I made the point that all MPs should be as clear as possible with EU citizens in their constituencies that they will have the right to stay – deal or no deal.
We should also reaffirm to those that have made their home here that we value their contribution and we want them to stay.
I have been consistent in my approach to the Brexit debate in parliament.
I said before I was elected that I would respect the outcome of the 2016 referendum and work to secure the best possible deal for Banff and Buchan.
That’s why I voted for the EU Withdrawal Agreement, and I will do so again.
I hope that those on the opposition benches, who are continually warning how disastrous ‘no-deal’ would be, will realise that the only way to avoid that outcome is to vote for the deal.