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General Committees
Draft Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment) Regulations 2024 - Mon 13 May 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) Some overseas suppliers also reported that they might reduce or stop sales to Great Britain entirely. - Speech Link
2: Rushanara Ali (Lab - Bethnal Green and Bow) The move has been welcomed by industry, with many businesses and trade associations speaking in favour - Speech Link
3: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) I would point out that the UK is now fifth in the global league table for trade; it was sixth, but we - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Commercial Organisations and Public Authorities Duty (Human Rights and Environment) Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Fri 10 May 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Baroness Young of Hornsey (XB - Life peer) I often think about those who fought for the legislation that would abolish the enslavement of and trade - Speech Link
2: Lord Prentis of Leeds (Lab - Life peer) provisions to make it clear that trade unions can take the complaints of affected workers. - Speech Link
3: Lord McNicol of West Kilbride (Lab - Life peer) within those trade deals. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 09 May 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) motion on the risk-based exclusion of Members of Parliament.Tuesday 14 May—Motion to approve the draft Trade - Speech Link
2: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) Last week, I asked the Leader of the House about the chaos of the Tory trade tax—the border checks that - Speech Link
3: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) Of course, people do make mistakes—he himself was adrift two years in registering an overseas visit—but - Speech Link
4: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) Given that the next questions to the Secretary of State for Business and Trade are not until 13 June, - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Uganda: Anti-Homosexuality Act - Thu 09 May 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) contribution to the Commonwealth Equality Network in the past, but we can do more to ensure faith voices and trade - Speech Link
2: Lord Benyon (Con - Life peer) For example, some of our overseas development assistance money goes to fund grass-roots efforts to shift - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Skills: Importance for the UK Economy and Quality of Life - Thu 09 May 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Garden of Frognal (LD - Life peer) Founded in 1878 by the City of London and 16 of the livery companies to promote training in trade and - Speech Link
2: Baroness Coussins (XB - Life peer) 38% of businesses expect to need language skills.Yet employers are frequently forced to recruit from overseas - Speech Link
3: Lord Lilley (Con - Life peer) I remembered visiting Nissan when I was Trade and Industry Secretary shortly after it set up, and I asked - Speech Link
4: Lord Lingfield (Con - Life peer) Also unavailable to them next year, when funding ceases for level 3 vocational trade programmes, will - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Recognition of Western Sahara as Moroccan - Wed 08 May 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Daniel Kawczynski (Con - Shrewsbury and Atcham) Yes, we do go overseas on visits where we try to increase our understanding of other nations. - Speech Link
2: David Rutley (Con - Macclesfield) trade to £3.5 billion a year. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Finance (No. 2) Bill
Committee of the whole House - Wed 08 May 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Christopher Chope (Con - Christchurch) harder to retain their energies for what was happening in our economy, rather than taking their talents overseas - Speech Link
2: None Indeed, when the ESIM was first introduced, the Offshore Energies UK trade body agreed that the ESIM - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Countering Iran’s Hostile Activities - Wed 08 May 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Iain Duncan Smith (Con - Chingford and Woodford Green) As a long-standing ally of China, Iranian-Chinese trade has skyrocketed since the start of the Ukrainian - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) terror groups—they can move money around the world to where it needs to be—yet those banks continue to trade - Speech Link
3: Nusrat Ghani (Con - Wealden) and accurate descriptions of Iran’s regime, including its violence at home and its malign influence overseas - Speech Link
4: Nusrat Ghani (Con - Wealden) I took care of the sanctions regime in the Department for Business and Trade, and I know that we had - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Defence - Tue 07 May 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) Meanwhile, one of Iran’s other key allies—the Houthis—continues to hold global trade hostage in the Red - Speech Link
2: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) It is popular to make sure that we properly defend these isles and defend our interests overseas. - Speech Link
3: Jeremy Quin (Con - Horsham) As senior US military and naval officers are not slow to remind us, UK bases overseas remain absolutely - Speech Link
4: James Gray (Con - North Wiltshire) We have laid on various welcome home events when people come back from overseas deployments and laid - Speech Link
5: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) are to the fore in exhibiting high technology specialists and consistently attracting domestic and overseas - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill
Committee stage part one - Tue 07 May 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: None the environment, civil rights or maritime law will share my concern that UK public entities in their overseas - Speech Link
2: None After the military coup in Myanmar, 16 trade unions were declared illegal and trade union activists have - Speech Link
3: None This is quite common in trade agreements. - Speech Link
4: Lord Sentamu (XB - Life peer) for me lies not just in the Bill but in the Explanatory Notes on economic activities of public bodies overseas - Speech Link
5: Lord Warner (XB - Life peer) Most people in this country and overseas would assume, then, that when the Foreign Secretary utters on - Speech Link