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Written Statements
Instrument of Accession to CPTPP - Fri 17 May 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Greg Hands (Con - Chelsea and Fulham) this significant moment, the UK has moved a vital step closer to acceding to one of the largest free trade - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Defence - Tue 07 May 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) Meanwhile, one of Iran’s other key allies—the Houthis—continues to hold global trade hostage in the Red - Speech Link
2: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) partners on a range of top-end procurement programmes, from sixth-generation combat jets with Italy and Japan - Speech Link
3: John Healey (Lab - Wentworth and Dearne) It will make allies our strategic strength, with new French, German and EU defence agreements, and renewed - Speech Link
4: Jeremy Quin (Con - Horsham) The optimism that followed the fall of the Berlin wall and China joining the World Trade Organisation - Speech Link
5: John Spellar (Lab - Warley) Even when Boeing and other companies have given assurances and agreements, they have not been held to - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
UK Trade Performance - Tue 07 May 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: None Since that referendum, the UK economy has grown faster than that of Germany, Italy and Japan, and contrary - Speech Link
2: None statistics, the UK, outside the EU, became the world’s fourth biggest exporter in 2022, overtaking Japan - Speech Link
3: None They tell me about how they are coping with problems in the jobs market, as societies from Germany to Japan - Speech Link
4: Lord McNicol of West Kilbride (Lab - Life peer) UK exports have grown at a slower rate than in every other G7 country except Japan, far behind Canada - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
War in Gaza - Tue 07 May 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Tom Hunt (Con - Ipswich) I am also concerned that some of the proposed ceasefire agreements seem to involve releasing hundreds - Speech Link
2: Richard Burgon (Lab - Leeds East) The Government must act now by ending arms sales and suspending the trade talks, because if they do not - Speech Link
3: Liam Byrne (Lab - Birmingham, Hodge Hill) Can he tell the House what advice he has given the Department for Business and Trade, and when, about - Speech Link
4: Fleur Anderson (Lab - Putney) The EU, Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Japan and Sweden have all restored funding - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 02 May 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Kemi Badenoch (Con - Saffron Walden) The fact of the matter is that the US is not carrying out any free trade agreements with any country. - Speech Link
2: Greg Hands (Con - Chelsea and Fulham) Three of the 11 parties have ratified so far—Japan, Chile and Singapore—and we look forward to further - Speech Link
3: Greg Hands (Con - Chelsea and Fulham) It is actually Scottish goods that benefit from so many of these trade agreements that we have negotiated - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 01 May 2024
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: John Lamont (Con - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk) with which we already have arrangements include Andorra, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Japan - Speech Link
2: John Lamont (Con - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk) Government’s assessment is that our internal market is the essential basis on which businesses are able to trade - Speech Link
3: John Lamont (Con - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk) that businesses in the borders—in my constituency, in Carlisle and beyond—benefit from frictionless trade - Speech Link
4: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) We cannot have cherry-picking of important international agreements. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
UK Trade Performance - Wed 01 May 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Gareth Thomas (LAB - Harrow West) agreements in place with at least 80% of the world, and to have a trade deal with the United States. - Speech Link
2: Liam Byrne (Lab - Birmingham, Hodge Hill) , which provokes the question of why we are not pursuing services-only trade agreements in a more expansive - Speech Link
3: Rob Butler (Con - Aylesbury) Does she agree that it is thanks to Brexit that we can forge such one-to-one trade agreements that are - Speech Link
4: Jonathan Gullis (Con - Stoke-on-Trent North) agreements with countries such as India? - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
UK Trade: Aviation - Wed 01 May 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Henry Smith (Con - Crawley) I thank Mr Speaker for granting me this debate on the importance of aviation to UK trade and to the future - Speech Link
2: Robert Syms (Con - Poole) The World Bank recently conducted a survey in which it looked at the future of world trade. - Speech Link
3: Henry Smith (Con - Crawley) a positive trade balance of more than £300 billion.Businesses in these sectors have been interviewed - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 30 Apr 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Nick Fletcher (Con - Don Valley) number of illegal immigrants crossing by small boats, does the Minister believe that more of these agreements - Speech Link
2: Wayne David (Lab - Caerphilly) clear that donors should have confidence in UNRWA and that Australia, France, Germany, Sweden, Canada, Japan - Speech Link
3: Catherine West (Lab - Hornsey and Wood Green) Minister confirm that when she was in Beijing she was able to get the balance right between the legitimate trade - Speech Link


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