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Commons Chamber
Hong Kong Security Legislation - Wed 20 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) It fails to provide certainty for international organisations, including diplomatic missions, operating - Speech Link
2: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) I agree with him about the nature of China. - Speech Link
3: Layla Moran (LD - Oxford West and Abingdon) The Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill was passed in - Speech Link
4: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) Friend the Secretary of State for Business and Trade said here yesterday. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 - Tue 19 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) The instrument contains trade measures developed in close co-ordination with our G7 allies. - Speech Link
2: None More than £20 billion-worth of UK-Russia trade is now under sanction, resulting in a 99.64% fall in Russian - Speech Link
3: Baroness Smith of Newnham (LD - Life peer) What opportunities are there to work with large countries, such as China and India, which are neither - Speech Link
4: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) Of course, we understand that, but the diamond trade is not huge in terms of the number of countries - Speech Link
5: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) We are expanding the network of sanctions specialists in UK diplomatic missions. - 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) review, China is the only economy that has applied to join. - Speech Link
2: Iain Duncan Smith (Con - Chingford and Woodford Green) China applied to join the CPTPP on 16 September 2021, and is next in line. - Speech Link
3: None Ministers have cut funding for trade missions led by business groups themselves, and cut funding for - Speech Link
4: Greg Hands (Con - Chelsea and Fulham) In debates in this House over some years now, he has made clear his views on trade with China, has gained - Speech Link
5: Greg Hands (Con - Chelsea and Fulham) with China, and to other right hon. and hon. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Spring Budget 2024 - Mon 18 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Eatwell (Lab - Life peer) A better characterisation of Keir Starmer’s missions for Britain will be difficult to find: a commitment - Speech Link
2: Baroness Kramer (LD - Life peer) The post-Brexit fall in trade intensity was initially forecast at 15%. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) It is about £500 billion, behind only China and the US. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Howarth of Newport (Lab - Life peer) being paralysed by arbitrary fiscal rules.Improving skills is one of the Government’s levelling-up missions - Speech Link
2: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (Lab - Life peer) He was talking about higher education, China and the UK as a global competitor. - Speech Link
3: Lord Mountevans (XB - Excepted Hereditary) and finance, and an excellent master’s in energy, trade and finance. - Speech Link
4: Lord Parekh (Lab - Life peer) years ago and have developed in a manner suited to the modern age, which has not happened in India or China - Speech Link
5: Lord Vaizey of Didcot (Con - Life peer) A few tend to dominate at the moment—India, China and Nigeria. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Foreign Affairs - Tue 05 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Viscount Waverley (XB - Excepted Hereditary) I conclude with a remark as regards China. - Speech Link
2: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) China seems aligned with that broad approach.The noble Lord, Lord Ahmad, referred, rightly, to trade - Speech Link
3: Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton (Con - Life peer) terms of diplomacy that Britain still has the third biggest network of embassies, high commissions and missions - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Report stage - Mon 04 Mar 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Frost (Con - Life peer) convention, for example, has 149 state parties, including such well-known supporters of international law as China - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hoey (Non-affiliated - Life peer) paragraph 46 of Safeguarding the Union says that“the Windsor Framework applies only in respect of … trade - Speech Link
3: Baroness Lawlor (Con - Life peer) when that is in the interests of this country, and other wider interests that arise, whether they are trade - Speech Link
4: None Northern Ireland and we are clear that nothing in the Windsor Framework, including Article 2, or the trade - Speech Link
5: Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (XB - Life peer) assisted our military, but those who have assisted the King’s servants on the ground in diplomatic missions - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Situation in the Red Sea - Thu 29 Feb 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: None attacked were being used by the long-range drones that the Houthis use for both reconnaissance and attack missions - Speech Link
2: Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent (Lab - Life peer) How successful have the four missions that we have been party to been in achieving these objectives? - Speech Link
3: Baroness Smith of Newnham (LD - Life peer) need to be talking with our conventional partners and allies, what discussions are we also having with China - Speech Link
4: Earl of Minto (Con - Excepted Hereditary) On the point made by the noble Baroness, Lady Smith, about China and its silence so far on this entire - Speech Link
5: Lord Hamilton of Epsom (Con - Life peer) and France, in that order, which are importing significant quantities of goods from the Far East and China - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Situation in the Red Sea - Mon 26 Feb 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) the fourth such operation to degrade the Houthi capabilities that are being used to threaten global trade - Speech Link
2: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) are impacted by this—the entire world, but perhaps China in particular—do speak up. - Speech Link
3: Greg Smith (Con - Buckingham) In conjunction with the Treasury and the Department for Business and Trade, has my right hon. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 06 Feb 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Daniel Zeichner (Lab - Cambridge) By their own measures, the Government are failing on almost half of their levelling-up missions in the - Speech Link
2: Luke Evans (Con - Bosworth) Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council, but small businesses in the private sector, I know that there is a trade-off - Speech Link
3: Jeremy Hunt (Con - South West Surrey) been higher than that of France, Germany and Italy, but in the past two years has overtaken that of China - Speech Link