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Lords Chamber
Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL]
Report stage part one - Tue 28 Jan 2025
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Viscount Camrose (Con - Excepted Hereditary) As I noted during the first day on Report, in a world where trade and business are ever more reliant - Speech Link
2: Lord Vallance of Balham (Lab - Life peer) The commissioner must already consult trade associations, data subjects and persons who appear to the - Speech Link
3: Lord Freyberg (XB - Excepted Hereditary) Tech companies have rebuffed transparency measures because they say that this will reveal trade secrets - Speech Link
4: None Japan and Singapore view web crawling and data mining as “non-consumptive” of a copyrighted work, and - Speech Link
5: Baroness Kidron (XB - Life peer) Government might consider how many creative copyright owners might like to come to the UK to ply their trade - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 22 Jan 2025
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Ian Murray (Lab - Edinburgh South) Brand Scotland is the Scotland Office’s programme of international trade and investment. - Speech Link
2: Ian Murray (Lab - Edinburgh South) Technology was a key theme of my recent visit to Malaysia and Singapore. - Speech Link
3: Ian Murray (Lab - Edinburgh South) We continue to work with the company and the trade unions on the Grangemouth refinery. - Speech Link
4: Kemi Badenoch (Con - North West Essex) It is the trade unions. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Great British Energy Bill
Committee stage - Mon 13 Jan 2025
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) , which most of us in this House support, but because of unfair trade that is based on massive subsidies - Speech Link
2: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) He will know that, in the last quarter, the trade deficit with China was some £32 billion but at no time - Speech Link
3: Lord Cameron of Dillington (XB - Life peer) That includes countries such as Singapore, which are, in essence, city states. - Speech Link
4: Earl of Effingham (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Requiring advanced notice to the International Trade Committee will introduce a layer of accountability - Speech Link
5: Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (Lab - Life peer) Applications will open in the second quarter, and we hope that the first agreements under the cap and - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
UK Strategy Towards the Arctic (International Relations and Defence Committee Report) - Thu 09 Jan 2025
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lord Teverson (LD - Life peer) Why is it that Singapore, Poland, France and other nations have Arctic ambassadors, yet this country - Speech Link
2: Baroness Helic (Con - Life peer) Melting ice is reshaping trade routes, exposing vast reserves of oil, gas and rare earth metals essential - Speech Link
3: Lord Hannay of Chiswick (XB - Life peer) When we first debated the Arctic, the opening up of the northern trade route from the Far East to Europe - Speech Link
4: Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (XB - Life peer) said on Monday that if the Danes declined to let him buy it, he would put punitive tariffs on their trade - Speech Link
5: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) We are ensuring that the rescue agreements allow for co-operation to ensure timely and effective response - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 12 Dec 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Douglas Alexander (LAB - Lothian East) The Government will publish impact assessments to aid the ratification process for new free trade agreements - Speech Link
2: Douglas Alexander (LAB - Lothian East) We will not compromise on animal welfare standards as we take forward our programme of free trade agreements - Speech Link
3: Jonathan Reynolds (LAB - Stalybridge and Hyde) I agree that the UK has always been and must be a champion of free trade in a world where trade issues - Speech Link
4: Jonathan Reynolds (LAB - Stalybridge and Hyde) another area is our trade with China. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
European Union (Withdrawal Arrangements) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 06 Dec 2024
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Jim Allister (TUV - North Antrim) We have had diversion of trade since, but in 2020, 0.003% of all the goods going into, and trade with - Speech Link
2: Scott Arthur (Lab - Edinburgh South West) Also, although it might be a small part of trade within the EU, that trade with the wider EU is probably - Speech Link
3: Jim Allister (TUV - North Antrim) If we want a trade deal with the United States, we have to show that it will be a bona fide trade deal - Speech Link
4: Deirdre Costigan (Lab - Ealing Southall) agreements and alliances. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Housing Supply and Homelessness - Thu 05 Dec 2024
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Lord Young of Cookham (Con - Life peer) Many older people want to trade down or rightsize, freeing up their homes for young families. - Speech Link
2: Lord Hain (Lab - Life peer) move could transform housing supply and that similar initiatives have succeeded in South Korea, Singapore - Speech Link
3: Lord Hardie (XB - Life peer) Consideration should also be given to including agreements linked to the planning consent that stipulate - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Windsor Framework - Tue 19 Nov 2024
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Jim Allister (TUV - North Antrim) We had acolytes of the Government talk about Northern Ireland becoming the Singapore of the western hemisphere - Speech Link
2: Jim Allister (TUV - North Antrim) of the Acts of Union, which is supposed to guarantee us all within this kingdom the same unfettered trade - Speech Link
3: Gavin Robinson (DUP - Belfast East) But we worked on solutions and reached arrangements and agreements with the Government in “Safeguarding - Speech Link
4: Hilary Benn (Lab - Leeds South) Indeed, 71% of respondents to last year’s Northern Ireland annual trade survey said that dual market - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and International Committee of the Red Cross (Status) Bill [Lords]
2nd reading - Tue 22 Oct 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Alicia Kearns (Con - Rutland and Stamford) We must strengthen intra-Commonwealth trade, build up the economies of countries struggling to attract - Speech Link
2: Monica Harding (LD - Esher and Walton) international inter-parliamentary organisation, the CPA will be enabled to sign the international agreements - Speech Link
3: Adam Jogee (Lab - Newcastle-under-Lyme) leaders of small islands and small nations being at the table with the leaders of countries such as Singapore - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Making Britain a Clean Energy Superpower - Fri 26 Jul 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Michael Shanks (Lab - Rutherglen) Friend the Member for Croydon West (Sarah Jones) is also a Business and Trade Minister; that will bring - Speech Link
2: Claire Coutinho (Con - East Surrey) If the trade unions, the business leaders and the Conservative party are right that their approach would - Speech Link
3: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) Businesses and trade organisations have long been calling for a detailed plan of action that offers the - Speech Link
4: Alan Gemmell (Lab - Central Ayrshire) Friend the Secretary of State for Business and Trade to meet GE Caledonian during the election campaign - Speech Link