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Commons Chamber
Situation in the Red Sea - Mon 05 Feb 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: John Healey (Lab - Wentworth and Dearne) The Houthis are attacking the ships of many nations, threatening maritime security and international trade - Speech Link
2: Dave Doogan (SNP - Angus) islands deserve to know what the plan is for this crisis in the Red sea—not the timings, the detail of missions - Speech Link
3: Sammy Wilson (DUP - East Antrim) the difficulties with some ships and now the increased demands on the Navy because of tensions with China - Speech Link
4: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) Gentleman is right about the importance of trade. - Speech Link
5: Matthew Offord (Con - Hendon) The Suez canal provides $9.4 billion of trade to the Egyptian economy, and the last thing we want is - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Industrial Strategy - Thu 01 Feb 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Watson of Wyre Forest (Lab - Life peer) in the legislative assemblies of the major economies: not in Germany or the USA, nor France, Japan, China - Speech Link
2: Baroness Donaghy (Lab - Life peer) noble friend Lord Watson said, a long-term national manufacturing plan similar to those in Germany, China - Speech Link
3: Earl Russell (LD - Excepted Hereditary) China developed more solar power last year than the rest of the world did in the whole of 2022. - Speech Link
4: Lord McNicol of West Kilbride (Lab - Life peer) investment in British business, people and places.Labour has based its industrial strategy on four missions - Speech Link
5: Lord Evans of Rainow (Con - Life peer) As a small country, we will never match the pure dollar muscle of the US, China, India or the EU. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords]
2nd reading - Mon 29 Jan 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Liam Byrne (Lab - Birmingham, Hodge Hill) the evidence that she gave to the Select Committee last week, and can she tell the House whether, if China - Speech Link
2: Liam Byrne (Lab - Birmingham, Hodge Hill) However, China accounted for about one third of global GDP growth. - Speech Link
3: Sarah Green (LD - Chesham and Amersham) He said that it is“not just the scale of the UK’s trade with China but how resilient we are in relation - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Tue 21 Nov 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (XB - Life peer) The second problem is China, now the world’s number one trading power. - Speech Link
2: Lord Livingston of Parkhead (Con - Life peer) I joined him on many export missions around the world. - Speech Link
3: Viscount Waverley (XB - Excepted Hereditary) There are, however, many in and from China who view the state of the world and believe China may be on - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 20 Nov 2023
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Tobias Ellwood (Con - Bournemouth East) Behind Hamas, sits Iran; behind Iran, sits Russia; and, increasingly, behind Russia sits China. - Speech Link
2: Andrew Murrison (Con - South West Wiltshire) The new way of working was passed through the trade union consultation process, of course, and in terms - Speech Link
3: James Heappey (Con - Wells) Friend hides his light under a bushel, because as a trade envoy in the region he will have had much to - Speech Link
4: James Heappey (Con - Wells) work of the slightly less glamorous part of the Royal Air Force that does long-distance surveillance missions - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Wed 15 Nov 2023
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Earl of Minto (Con - Excepted Hereditary) driven, as they continue to stress-test the platform and components through a series of battlefield missions - Speech Link
2: Lord Vaizey of Didcot (Con - Life peer) Our trade with south-east Asia is bigger than our trade with India or with Japan, and double our trade - Speech Link
3: Lord Udny-Lister (Con - Life peer) This is partly because the future of trade, particularly digital trade, is entwined with advancements - Speech Link
4: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) of the House of Lords International Relations and Defence Committee on trade and security with China - Speech Link
5: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) in the West”,and a Government who have deliberately ballooned our trade deficit in goods with China - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Economic Growth - Tue 14 Nov 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Alan Brown (SNP - Kilmarnock and Loudoun) today that the UK has slipped further back on the attractiveness index, so it is now behind India, China - Speech Link
2: Priti Patel (Con - Witham) One of the core missions of the Conservative party is to support economic freedom and liberty by cutting - Speech Link
3: Antony Higginbotham (Con - Burnley) for Business and Trade. - Speech Link
4: Stephen Kinnock (Lab - Aberavon) The crucial point here is that these two missions go hand in hand. - Speech Link
5: Andrew Bridgen (Reclaim - North West Leicestershire) , and on that basis we are voluntarily rejecting entire industries while at the same time communist China - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Tue 14 Nov 2023
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Viscount Chandos (Lab - Life peer) I welcome the participation of China—as more than half of all published academic papers on AI have at - Speech Link
2: Lord Rees of Ludlow (XB - Life peer) The missions of our universities are not sufficiently varied. - Speech Link
3: Viscount Colville of Culross (XB - Excepted Hereditary) I hope that the conduct requirement to trade on fair terms will be sufficient. - Speech Link
4: Lord Storey (LD - Life peer) Universities that have more students from China doing engineering than UK students—is that the way to - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
UK Export Performance - Mon 18 Sep 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Aaron Bell (CON - Newcastle-under-Lyme) We are the third largest country in the world for artificial intelligence, behind only the US and China - Speech Link
2: Nigel Huddleston (CON - Mid Worcestershire) This is our biggest trade deal since Brexit and we are the only European member of this free trade family.As - Speech Link
3: Gareth Thomas (LAB - Harrow West) The Government cut support in recent years to trade bodies wanting to run their own trade missions, and - Speech Link
4: Aaron Bell (CON - Newcastle-under-Lyme) The Minister for International Trade, my hon. - Speech Link
5: Kevin Hollinrake (CON - Thirsk and Malton) That is why the Department for Business and Trade has established a dedicated free trade agreement utilisation - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Beyond Digital (COVID-19 Committee Report) - Wed 06 Sep 2023
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho (CB - Life peer) It is about our capacity to trade in businesses and to make sure that Ministers have the digital understanding - Speech Link
2: Lord Bilimoria (CB - Life peer) have been spoken about; how children lost so much of their schooling; how businesses could not move to trade - Speech Link
3: Lord Alderdice (LDEM - Life peer) Thousands of people are working under the Governments of countries such as Russia and China, as well - Speech Link
4: Lord Bassam of Brighton (LAB - Life peer) For instance, will they have a plan to ensure that we take advantage of the electronic trade documents - Speech Link
5: Viscount Camrose (CON - Excepted Hereditary) The road map sets out how the CDDO will achieve six missions, including transforming public services - Speech Link