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Lords Chamber
NHS: Long-term Sustainability - Thu 18 Apr 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Baroness Ramsey of Wall Heath (Lab - Life peer) They were Lancastrians, children of men who worked down the pit, from a long line of proud trade unionists - Speech Link
2: Baroness Cavendish of Little Venice (XB - Life peer) On the long-term care insurance point that the noble Lord made, Germany and Japan, two countries that - Speech Link
3: Baroness Merron (Lab - Life peer) have to tout their technology to each individual NHS trust; we would stop the need to sign separate agreements - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Cybersecurity and UK Democracy - Tue 26 Mar 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: None The summit provided the United Kingdom Government with a platform to build international agreements on - Speech Link
2: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) I put it to the Minister that with a multi-billion-pound trade deficit with China, we are insufficiently - Speech Link
3: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) statements of support have been issued by the European Union, by some individual member states, and by Japan - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone (Con - Life peer) Our national interests are to protect democracy, but also to ensure that trade continues to flourish. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 25 Mar 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) I have previously been to Japan, I think at least twice but possibly three times, on AUKUS, and to Italy—sorry - Speech Link
2: 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
3: 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


Commons Chamber
Armed Forces Readiness and Defence Equipment - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: John Spellar (Lab - Warley) increasingly aggressive attitude of China, which is why deepening relations through AUKUS and with Japan - Speech Link
2: 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
3: John Healey (Lab - Wentworth and Dearne) respect, as the world does, the professionalism with which they do their job.I welcome the further AUKUS agreements - Speech Link
4: John Healey (Lab - Wentworth and Dearne) Whether it is Royal Navy ships’ days at sea or MACA agreements struck with other Departments, data that - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (IAC Report) - Tue 19 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Lansley (Con - Life peer) , open trade, a rules-based trading system and not simply to bilateral agreements but to plurilateral - Speech Link
2: Lord Anderson of Swansea (Lab - Life peer) Yet such bilateral or plurilateral agreements should be put in perspective: the best trade agreement - Speech Link
3: Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (XB - Life peer) Trade agreements back then were negotiated for us by the European Commission’s experts, most of them - Speech Link
4: Lord Johnson of Lainston (Con - Life peer) I am extremely grateful for his advice and expert opinion on Japan, and the very positive case that Japan - Speech Link
5: Lord Johnson of Lainston (Con - Life peer) We do a lot of manufacturing trade with countries such as Japan, Malaysia, Vietnam and other CPTPP countries.Services - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 19 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Jeremy Hunt (Con - South West Surrey) years this country, under Conservative leadership, will grow faster than France, Germany, Italy and Japan - Speech Link
2: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) other major economies, and the IMF forecasts that we will grow faster than Germany, France, Italy and Japan - Speech Link
3: Jeremy Hunt (Con - South West Surrey) that the Budget will mean that the UK economy will grow faster than that of France, Germany, Italy or Japan - Speech Link
4: Gareth Davies (Con - Grantham and Stamford) We are representing the Scotch Whisky Association in trade agreements, and that support will endure long - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords]
Report stage - Tue 19 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Iain Duncan Smith (Con - Chingford and Woodford Green) That is why the new clause is needed.Under UK trade policy, it is not unusual for bilateral trade agreements - Speech Link
2: Anthony Mangnall (Con - Totnes) It lessens the progress that has been made to date on signing new trade agreements and ensuring that - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Higher Education - Thu 07 Mar 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Johnson of Marylebone (Con - Life peer) The most highly innovative knowledge economies around the world—look at South Korea, Israel, Japan and - Speech Link
2: Lord Norton of Louth (Con - Life peer) Foreign nationals who have been educated in the United Kingdom are more likely to trade with the UK than - Speech Link
3: Lord Mountevans (XB - Excepted Hereditary) slightly specific personal involvement for a moment, in my view the world’s best master’s in shipping, trade - Speech Link
4: Baroness Wilcox of Newport (Lab - Life peer) review, we will work with universities to ensure that there are a “range of options” on founder-track agreements - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
LGBT History Month - Thu 07 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Elliot Colburn (Con - Carshalton and Wallington) Same-sex civil unions have been proposed or passed in Latvia, Poland, Czechia, Hong Kong and parts of Japan - Speech Link
2: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) People will also ask serious questions about trade and investment. - Speech Link
3: Stuart Andrew (Con - Pudsey) There are lots of other countries in which we have lots of different agreements. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Brexit: Benefits to Economy and Society - Wed 06 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Offord of Garvel (Con - Life peer) Since the referendum, the UK economy has grown faster than those of Germany, Italy and Japan, and is - Speech Link
2: Lord Offord of Garvel (Con - Life peer) I will keep to trade. - Speech Link
3: Lord Anderson of Swansea (Lab - Life peer) My Lords, have any of these trade deals cumulatively made up for the loss of trade to the European Union - Speech Link