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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 11 Mar 2020
Apprenticeships: Gender Segregation

"My Lords, last year 48,000 young people, predominantly women and girls, applied to train as nurses in this country, but half were turned away because we ration the number of places for training in nursing. Why do we ration these places while unlimited numbers are able to study every subject …..."
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Written Question
Customs
Monday 9th March 2020

Asked by: Lord Lilley (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether any international agreement obliges them to require importers to complete full customs declarations, other than declarations of origin, for goods coming from other countries within a free trade area in which there are no tariffs or quotas.

Answered by Viscount Younger of Leckie - Shadow Minister (Work and Pensions)

The UK is party to a number of international agreements that provide for obligations and recommended practices around customs procedures and declarations, such as the Revised Kyoto Convention.

Obligations as to the precise form of the UK customs declarations for imports are established by the UK’s domestic legislation. There is no general exemption regarding the contents of customs declarations for goods being imported under a free trade agreement, including imports that are tariff free and quota free.

Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 06 Mar 2019
Trade Bill

"I am grateful to the noble Lord for pointing out the distinction between whether chlorine washing is bad for our health or masks the different treatment of animals during their lives. Is he saying that chlorine washing is not bad for our health, whether it is used on fruit from …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 06 Mar 2019
Trade Bill

"I apologise and withdraw in that case...."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 30 Jan 2019
Trade Bill

"My Lords, I congratulate the Minister on introducing this debate and focusing on rules of origin, which is the main complexity that will arise with trading goods. I suggest that this should not be exaggerated. It is the big difference between free trade areas and customs unions but I note …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 30 Jan 2019
Trade Bill

"I am not sure that I said any of the things that I think the noble Lord is both telling me I said and that are not true. I suspect what he said is true but it is not what I said. Forgive me if I do not really respond …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 30 Jan 2019
Trade Bill

"Perhaps the World Customs Organization knows nothing about customs, but we have to reach the judgments that we can, and certainly under the REX system the fees that the noble Baroness referred to will not have to be paid, as I understand it. However, again, I ask the Minister to …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 30 Jan 2019
Trade Bill

"It is always a pleasure to be patronised by the noble Lord, Lord Davies. As someone who passed only parts 1, 2 and 3 of the Institute of Statisticians exams, I suppose that I must give way to him if he passed part 4. I fully know the difference. If …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 30 Jan 2019
Trade Bill

"It is quite true that other countries within the single market have increased their exports to each other more than we have—but that is not purely because of differences in productivity. Indeed, our GDP over most of that period has grown rather more rapidly than that of many other members …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 30 Jan 2019
Trade Bill

"My Lords, the amendment tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson of Balmacara, and others of the same gist are remarkable. In my 35 years in Parliament, I do not recall Parliament ever having subjected any trade agreement negotiated by the European Union to the level of scrutiny which it …..."
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