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Westminster Hall
EU Trading Relationship - Thu 24 Apr 2025
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Mike Reader (Lab - Northampton South) This summer we are at the pinch point of the trade triangle, with the trade strategy, the small business - Speech Link
2: Phil Brickell (Lab - Bolton West) Europe remains the bedrock of British trade. - Speech Link
3: Liam Conlon (Lab - Beckenham and Penge) Reflecting on that, there is no greater example of how trade with the EU, and trade more generally, is - Speech Link
4: Douglas Alexander (LAB - Lothian East) In trade, geography still matters. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
European Union: UK Membership - Mon 24 Mar 2025
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) We know about the economic benefit of membership in securing trade, but does my hon. - Speech Link
2: Tim Roca (Lab - Macclesfield) We are now also in the midst of a trade war, having deliberately left one of the most powerful trade - Speech Link
3: Seamus Logan (SNP - Aberdeenshire North and Moray East) Our business community is also enduring increased costs and damaged trade. - Speech Link
4: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) However, the current system through which we trade our energy is not working. - Speech Link
5: Abena Oppong-Asare (Lab - Erith and Thamesmead) That is why we want to tackle the barriers to trade for businesses. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
2nd reading - Mon 24 Mar 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Ruth Cadbury (Lab - Brentford and Isleworth) The community infrastructure levy and section 106 agreements on, say, new bus routes, must be adequate - Speech Link
2: Chris Curtis (Lab - Milton Keynes North) Britain is one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world; I am told that it is second only to Singapore - Speech Link
3: Angus MacDonald (LD - Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire) For families living beside towering pylons and substations, it is a poor trade-off for the lasting impact - Speech Link
4: Rachel Taylor (Lab - North Warwickshire and Bedworth) There were insufficient resources to deal with complex legal agreements or to consult in a meaningful - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
United Kingdom: Global Position - Thu 13 Mar 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Howard of Lympne (Con - Life peer) That is an inevitable consequence of a damaging trade war, and the extra spending on defence which is - Speech Link
2: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) Our trade stands at £46 billion and the CPTPP was agreed in 2023. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Prashar (XB - Life peer) But recently the UK has dropped to third place behind China in business, trade and governance. - Speech Link
4: Lord Taylor of Goss Moor (LD - Life peer) and international institutions to build an alliance around trade. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
India and Southeast Asia: Free Trade Agreements - Thu 06 Mar 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Vaizey of Didcot (Con - Life peer) We have a free trade deal with Singapore, as well as a digital economy agreement. - Speech Link
2: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) The previous Government’s agreements with Singapore and Vietnam set a strong foundation. - Speech Link
3: Lord Leong (Lab - Life peer) not be decided in any trade agreements. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Trade Diversion and Windsor Framework - Tue 04 Mar 2025
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Jim Allister (TUV - North Antrim) It is no wonder that the consequence of that fettering of trade is a diversion of trade. - Speech Link
2: Robin Swann (UUP - South Antrim) It is on that diversion of trade that I wish to speak. - Speech Link
3: Sammy Wilson (DUP - East Antrim) The hon. and learned Member talks about that trade being infinitesimal—0.4% of EU trade crosses that - Speech Link
4: Jim Allister (TUV - North Antrim) EU trade laws govern the Irish sea border. - Speech Link
5: Jim Allister (TUV - North Antrim) There is trade diversion—what is he going to do about it? - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Second sitting)
Committee stage: 2nd Sitting - Thu 27 Feb 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Matt Vickers (Con - Stockton West) It is happening in Singapore. We are going to Curaçao, which now has a walk-through border. - Speech Link
2: Will Forster (LD - Woking) legislation around tackling the small boats and the criminal gangs that are enabling that as a new trade - Speech Link
3: Pete Wishart (SNP - Perth and Kinross-shire) that, “They’ll just adjust their business model; they’ve got a monopoly on the irregular migration trade - Speech Link
4: Pete Wishart (SNP - Perth and Kinross-shire) Certainly, the other side of the work that the Home Secretary has been leading on—in terms of agreements - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]
Report stage part one - Wed 26 Feb 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Frost (Con - Life peer) Great Britain to Northern Ireland—I do not know.What the purpose of the Bill cannot be is to reduce trade - Speech Link
2: Lord Leong (Lab - Life peer) Agreements Committee, the powers that the Bill would provide give the UK regulatory autonomy. - Speech Link
3: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con - Life peer) Being open and transparent, and putting in legislation the means to improve trade globally, does not - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
UK-US Bilateral Relationship - Tue 04 Feb 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Jim Allister (TUV - North Antrim) Or are this Government interested only in a trade deal that would benefit Great Britain? - Speech Link
2: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) Member for securing the debate, and for his work on the Business and Trade Committee. - Speech Link
3: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) That relationship is worth more than £300 billion a year—nearly a fifth of all UK trade. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Arbitration Bill [Lords]
2nd reading - Wed 29 Jan 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Nicholas Dakin (Lab - Scunthorpe) drafted by the famous political philosopher John Locke after he had been tasked by the then Board of Trade - Speech Link
2: Kieran Mullan (Con - Bexhill and Battle) in arbitrator and legal fees, while also supporting wider sectors, such as banking, insurance and trade - Speech Link