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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 27 Oct 2022
Iran: Demonstrations

"My Lords, one ongoing issue in Iran that has received virtually no publicity in this country or across the West over the last 20 years is the repeated action by trade unions and trade unionists striking against the regime. For the last 20 years, that has been a continuum. The …..."
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Speech in Grand Committee - Thu 11 Mar 2021
International Women’s Day

"My Lords, the role models we have heard about are incredibly powerful for young girls out there, but they are also incredibly powerful role models for young boys. In the past 15 years, the world we live in has been totally transformed. Young boys are not being brought up in …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 27 Oct 2020
Covid-19: Disparate Impact

"The Statement looks forward to the availability of a vaccine, which will be—when it happens—warmly welcomed in this House, of course, as well as across the country and indeed the world. But one ethnic minority group will have a kickback at that time. A report I have just released, a …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 08 Jul 2020
Education Settings: Autumn Opening

"My Lords, when schools return, will competitive sport be allowed for all these kids who have been locked inside for so many months? If not, what is the precise evidence base that this would create additional risk?..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 23 Jun 2020
Schools: Return of Students

"Will all secondary schools be required in September to provide details of which pupils have disappeared from their rolls? Will those figures be provided to government?..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 20 May 2020
Covid-19: Schools

"Every school can have an elected trade union health and safety workplace representative with statutory powers to carry out risk assessments. How many have done so?..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 04 Mar 2020
Schoolchildren: Dyslexia and Neurodiverse Conditions

"My Lords, for nearly 20 years I represented primarily former coalmining families in the so-called red wall. The first thing I was told in a school when I went there after I was elected was, “You shouldn’t expect too much of these kids because they are pit fodder”—as their fathers, …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 04 Jun 2018
US Steel and Aluminium Tariffs

"I cannot believe what I am hearing. It is a good job that steelworkers and steel communities have not waved the white flag when they have been called upon repeatedly to defend our shared values with the US over the past 100 years. We cannot give in to this. The …..."
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Written Question
Department for International Trade: Visits Abroad
Monday 14th November 2016

Asked by: Lord Mann (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many and which countries he and his Ministers plan to visit in (a) 2016 and (b) the first three months of 2017.

Answered by Greg Hands

Since being appointed on 13th July 2016, my Rt hon Friend the Secretary of State for International Trade and his Ministerial team have undertaken a total of 27 overseas visits to 41 countries. Details of these visits are listed in the attached Annex.

The Secretary of State and his Ministerial team will continue to engage with international partners overseas for the remainder of 2016 and early 2017 to promote British trade and investment and begin discussion on our future trading relations upon the UK exiting the EU.

Written Question
USA: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
Monday 17th October 2016

Asked by: Lord Mann (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, when he next plans to meet his US counterpart to discuss Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership proposals.

Answered by Greg Hands

The UK continues to support an ambitious Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership (TTIP) agreement between the EU and US. As such, Department for International Trade ministers and officials meet with US counterparts on an on-going basis to discuss matters relating to TTIP.