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Lords Chamber
China: Human Rights and Security - Thu 19 Dec 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Smith of Newnham (LD - Life peer) Where are those trade and investment interests coming from? - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Winchester (Bshp - Bishops) Despite what the Emperor said to Lord Macartney, China needs our trade—but we cannot trade at any price - Speech Link
3: Lord Blencathra (Con - Life peer) Trade with China? Yes. Trust China? - Speech Link
4: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) This seems to be the Government’s adopted approach for trade. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Football Governance Bill [HL]
Committee stage part two - Mon 09 Dec 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Watson of Invergowrie (Lab - Life peer) might think that young men earning millions of pounds each season would not feel the need to join a trade - Speech Link
2: None These trends will only accelerate with the men’s football World Cup in the United States of America, Mexico - Speech Link
3: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) Requiring agents to disclose agreements and payments would ensure that all interested parties, including - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Great British Energy Bill
2nd reading - Thu 05 Sep 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Ed Miliband (Lab - Doncaster North) supply chains in every corner of the UK, delivering the next generation of good jobs, with strong trade - Speech Link
2: Mike Reader (Lab - Northampton South) In the centre of my constituency remains the legacy of the shoe-and-boot trade that was once the main - Speech Link
3: Sarah Champion (Lab - Rotherham) Canada, the EU and Mexico have followed suit with similar regulations, but we have fallen behind. - Speech Link
4: Mark Sewards (Lab - Leeds South West and Morley) Whether it was the role of Morley, Tingley, Gildersome or East Ardsley in the heavy woollen trade, or - Speech Link
5: Michael Shanks (Lab - Rutherglen) It will deliver the next generation of good jobs, with strong trade unions, helping to re-industrialise - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Security in the Democratic Republic of the Congo - Wed 04 Sep 2024
Department for International Development

Mentions:
1: Jeremy Corbyn (Ind - Islington North) rights, with enforced rubber collectors and enforced miners, as well as the continuation of the slave trade - Speech Link
2: Kate Osamor (LAB - Edmonton and Winchmore Hill) domestic and foreign, have fought to control these resources, using the profits from illegal mining and trade - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
UK Trade Performance - Tue 07 May 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Offord of Garvel (Con - Life peer) In 2019, when we left, it was 16% of global trade and by 2050 it will be 9% of global trade. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Christians: Persecution - Mon 25 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Earl of Sandwich (XB - Excepted Hereditary) Now that we have entered a trade agreement with India, albeit that it is stalled at the moment, can the - Speech Link
2: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) Lord, Lord Curry, mentioned India; Laos has jumped 10 places to 21st in the watch-list; Cuba and Mexico - 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) That is why the new clause is needed.Under UK trade policy, it is not unusual for bilateral trade agreements - Speech Link
2: Anthony Mangnall (Con - Totnes) It lessens the progress that has been made to date on signing new trade agreements and ensuring that - Speech Link
3: Stella Creasy (LAB - Walthamstow) That convention binds together more than 60 bilateral trade agreements within the Euro-Mediterranean - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (IAC Report) - Tue 19 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Lansley (Con - Life peer) , open trade, a rules-based trading system and not simply to bilateral agreements but to plurilateral - Speech Link
2: Lord Anderson of Swansea (Lab - Life peer) Yet such bilateral or plurilateral agreements should be put in perspective: the best trade agreement - Speech Link
3: Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (XB - Life peer) Trade agreements back then were negotiated for us by the European Commission’s experts, most of them - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
International Women’s Day - Fri 08 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) SheTrades Outlook is a unique global online platform that tracks and compares countries’ progress on trade - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hodgson of Abinger (Con - Life peer) As noble Lords will know, you cannot achieve sustainable peace agreements in conflict areas unless you - Speech Link
3: Baroness Chakrabarti (Lab - Life peer) no enforcement mechanism other than relying on individual women, with or without the help of their trade - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
LGBT History Month - Thu 07 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Elliot Colburn (Con - Carshalton and Wallington) gender recognition and others, have been passed in places such as New Zealand, Colombia, Australia, Mexico - Speech Link
2: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) People will also ask serious questions about trade and investment. - Speech Link
3: Stuart Andrew (Con - Pudsey) There are lots of other countries in which we have lots of different agreements. - Speech Link