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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 06 Sep 2022
Trade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill

"Is it not the case that negotiations directly between Parliaments—that is the effect of what the hon. Member for Brighton, Pavilion (Caroline Lucas) says—on any international agreement would be an absolute nonsense and would never get us anywhere? The right way is to use plenipotentiary powers in the name of …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 20 Jan 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"2. What progress her Department has made on securing UK membership of the comprehensive and progressive agreement for trans-Pacific partnership. ..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 20 Jan 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"Is CPTPP not now one of the greatest opportunities we have to reshape the basis of international trade, to the benefit of not only the whole UK and the world, but great British businesses such as Oxford Instruments in Wycombe?..."
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Written Question
Shipping: Containers
Monday 6th December 2021

Asked by: Steve Baker (Conservative - Wycombe)

Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps she is taking to work with the shipping industry to reduce container shipping prices; and if she will make a statement.

Answered by Mike Freer

I refer my Hon. Friend for Wycombe to the answer I gave him on the 26th November 2021, UIN: 77444.

Written Question
Shipping: Freight
Friday 26th November 2021

Asked by: Steve Baker (Conservative - Wycombe)

Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what recent assessment she has made of the impact of container shipping prices on UK trade; and if she will make a statement.

Answered by Mike Freer

High consumer demand and sustained disruption caused by Covid-19 has put pressure on global freight capacity which has resulted in demand for shipping containers outstripping supply. This has caused an increase in the cost of freight transport globally. Higher prices have impacted UK trade causing disruption for businesses and individuals. DIT has supported DfT in working with the shipping industry to mitigate disruption. DIT is also engaging with affected businesses and continues to monitor the impact of rising shipping prices on international trade.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 24 Jun 2021
Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership

"The right hon. Lady must know that the CPTPP preserves the member states’ right to regulate for themselves. Will she not accept that that is one of the attractions of these arrangements compared with the EU, which we have just left precisely to recover control of our own regulation?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 24 Jun 2021
Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership

"We live in interesting times, and I do not doubt that, whether it is in 100 or 1,000 years, historians will look back and record that these were times of great tumult—from the global financial crisis, through the unseating of a number of leaders around the world and Brexit, through …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 17 Jun 2021
Free Trade Agreement Negotiations: Australia

"I congratulate my right hon. Friend and all her officials on this excellent deal. Is not the quality of this deal and the speed with which it has been agreed a testament to what can be achieved by high-standards nations when they come together properly as partners and negotiate in …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 21 Apr 2021
CPTPP

"I beg to move,

That this House has considered the UK’s accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership. 

I am absolutely delighted to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hollobone, and delighted that the Government are seeking to accede to the comprehensive and progressive agreement for trans-Pacific partnership—something …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 21 Apr 2021
CPTPP

"I completely agree with my right hon. Friend the Minister. Like him, I have hugely enjoyed this debate. He enjoys my unqualified support, so I will turn my remarks to some other aspects of the debate.

I thought that the best part of the contributions from the Front-Bench spokesmen for …..."
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