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1: Lord Parekh (Lab - Life peer) because it is in contrast to the academic and intellectual crisis that countries such as India and even China - Speech Link
2: Lord Norton of Louth (Con - Life peer) There is also the long-term effect on trade. - Speech Link
3: Lord Willetts (Con - Life peer) group is excellent and research intensive, but we need to be a bit more relaxed about the different missions - Speech Link
4: Lord Storey (LD - Life peer) This could be further exacerbated as countries such as China … pour money into their own higher education - Speech Link
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1: Baroness D'Souza (XB - Life peer) affect the UK’s involvement, in part due to its regular links with the number of Commonwealth diplomatic missions - Speech Link
2: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) issues of how democratic Parliaments should function.When I chaired a commission with the Nigerian Trade - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Wolfson of Tredegar (Con - Life peer) zero; Sudan, zero; the Uighurs, zero; North Korea, zero; Congo, zero; Venezuela, zero; Iran, zero; China - Speech Link
2: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) agreement, which sets the parameters for UK trade and investment with the State of Israel. - Speech Link
3: Lord Willetts (Con - Life peer) I remember when I used to go on missions to India, accompanied on a couple of occasions by the vice-chancellor - Speech Link
4: Lord Leigh of Hurley (Con - Life peer) I also went on a trade trip to China with the vice-chancellors. - Speech Link
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1: Greg Hands (Con - Chelsea and Fulham) Friend is a great champion of international trade, as the Prime Minister’s trade envoy for Mongolia. - Speech Link
2: Andrew Bridgen (Ind - North West Leicestershire) net zero, electricity costs to businesses in the UK are four and a half times higher than those in China - Speech Link
3: Alan Mak (Con - Havant) As part of this vote of confidence in the UK civil space sector, our trade missions and trade promotion - Speech Link
4: Kemi Badenoch (Con - Saffron Walden) Trade with the US is going well. - Speech Link
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1: Gareth Thomas (LAB - Harrow West) missions to win vital new orders for British business.Farmers and Conservative members think that the - Speech Link
2: Julie Marson (Con - Hertford and Stortford) had the third-highest foreign direct investment over the past years; we are behind only the US and China - Speech Link
3: Jonathan Gullis (Con - Stoke-on-Trent North) I thank her personally for the time she took yesterday to meet Johnson Tiles, Churchill China and Steelite—great - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Victoria Atkins (Con - Louth and Horncastle) Lady, because the illicit trade is often the greatest in the most deprived areas of the country, and - Speech Link
2: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) In the press today, the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, the right hon. - Speech Link
3: Elizabeth Truss (Con - South West Norfolk) They are concerned about the rise of China. They want to support Ukraine. - Speech Link
4: Sajid Javid (Con - Bromsgrove) there is, and whether it is tackling burning injustices, levelling up or even the big society, these missions - Speech Link
5: Jake Berry (Con - Rossendale and Darwen) we are free to make, we might as well live in a socialist society—we may as well live in Russia or China - Speech Link
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1: Henry Smith (Con - Crawley) British sovereignty, so that we can help to counter the many threats of the modern world, whether that be China - Speech Link
2: James Heappey (Con - Wells) middle east, the challenge of Iran and its proxies; in the Indo-Pacific, the growing competition with China - Speech Link
3: Mark Pawsey (Con - Rugby) to Singapore, and it was achieved with the assistance of the MOD and the Department for Business and Trade - Speech Link
4: James Cartlidge (Con - South Suffolk) I am pleased to say that we held the first UK trade mission in December, and that there will be further - Speech Link
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1: Lord Holmes of Richmond (Con - Life peer) Just last year, the Electronic Trade Documents Act showed that we know how to legislate for the possibilities - Speech Link
2: Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd (XB - Life peer) The noble Lord, Lord Holmes, referred to the trade documents Bill, which was the product of international - Speech Link
3: Lord Fairfax of Cameron (Con - Excepted Hereditary) To their credit, they organised and hosted Bletchley, and importantly got China to attend too. - Speech Link
4: Lord Ranger of Northwood (Con - Life peer) That would not help us to work hand in hand with industry and trade bodies to build trust and confidence - Speech Link
5: Baroness Twycross (Lab - Life peer) can help to contribute to how we tackle climate change.The use of AI by government underpins Labour’s missions - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Jeremy Quin (Con - Horsham) In east Asia, from which the Defence Committee has just returned, China has doubled its official spending - Speech Link
2: Kevan Jones (Lab - North Durham) , people ask: do we just forget about the South China sea? - Speech Link
3: Alec Shelbrooke (Con - Elmet and Rothwell) Perhaps we need more Navy, because that will become a much more critical area in our security, our trade - Speech Link
4: Emma Lewell-Buck (Lab - South Shields) , as well as our armed forces responding to humanitarian missions and MACA—military aid to the civil - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None It fails to provide certainty for international organisations, including diplomatic missions, operating - Speech Link
2: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) As the noble Lord, Lord Purvis, just said, we are more interested in building trade relationships to - Speech Link
3: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) We work closely with the United States on China. - Speech Link
4: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) Why do the Government place trade as a higher priority than speaking out in favour of the rule of law - Speech Link