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

Mentions:
1: Viscount Trenchard (Con - Excepted Hereditary) region, reinforcing the AUKUS pact, the continuing importance of the Five Eyes intelligence pact and the reciprocal - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) international development, food standards—as has already been referred to—animal welfare and public health - Speech Link
3: Lord Fox (LD - Life peer) The industry has welcomed the side letter signed with Malaysia, which essentially allows for 25% reciprocal - 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: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (LAB - Brighton, Kemptown) We are talking not about the CPTPP arrangements but about our arrangements for authorising our Government - Speech Link
2: Anthony Mangnall (Con - Totnes) that I worry about mission creep, but if we did that on this, might we not also do it for the World Health - Speech Link
3: Sarah Green (LD - Chesham and Amersham) The lack of reciprocal agreements for UK artists in CPTPP countries leaves our creatives exposed. - Speech Link
4: Greg Hands (Con - Chelsea and Fulham) CPTPP labour chapter includes binding provisions on fundamental labour rights and on hours of work, health - Speech Link
5: Kemi Badenoch (Con - Saffron Walden) not require the UK to change its levels of statutory protection in relation to animal or plant life, health - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)
Committee stage: 2nd sitting - Tue 20 Feb 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Greg Hands (Con - Chelsea and Fulham) Agency, the Veterinary Medicines Directorate and the Health and Safety Executive. - Speech Link
2: Greg Hands (Con - Chelsea and Fulham) Those arrangements will continue to apply to cancellation applications in the future, including cancellation - Speech Link
3: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Lab - Slough) Furthermore, the potential jeopardy ISDS poses to public services cannot be overstated. - 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: Kemi Badenoch (Con - Saffron Walden) The UK is already the world’s second largest exporter of services, behind only the US, and services exports - Speech Link
2: Gareth Thomas (LAB - Harrow West) hiked up trade barriers, increased the cost of food and generated huge bureaucracy for business.On the arrangements - Speech Link
3: Sarah Green (LD - Chesham and Amersham) payment rights, or equitable remuneration, to foreign artists who perform in the UK, without ensuring reciprocal - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Taiwan: Elections - Thu 18 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Faulkner of Worcester (Lab - Life peer) but which involve Taiwan in world bodies to which they are placed to contribute, such as the World Health - Speech Link
2: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) and the noble Baroness, Lady D’Souza, that there are occasions—for example, at meetings of the World Health - Speech Link
3: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) However, the diversity of our trade with Taiwan across goods and services has been bolstered, and Taiwan - Speech Link
4: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) On the noble Lord’s first point, I fear that if he is asking for a reciprocal letter of congratulations - Speech Link
5: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) Are we making proper preparations and risk assessments on everything from the economy to defence arrangements - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [HL]
Report stage - Tue 16 Jan 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Curry of Kirkharle (XB - Life peer) Of course, it is vital that we negotiate trade deals that encourage reciprocal trade and benefit the - Speech Link
2: Lord McNicol of West Kilbride (Lab - Life peer) assessments on ISDS, animal welfare, pesticides, commodities, workers’ rights, forestry and public services - Speech Link
3: None Lastly, on public services, it is absolutely right to ensure that we are not selling the NHS or trying - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [HL]
Committee stage: Minutes of Proceedings - Thu 14 Dec 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Earl of Clancarty (XB - Excepted Hereditary) Of course, we now have reciprocal agreements on this right with two CPTPP member states, Australia and - Speech Link
2: Lord Foster of Bath (LD - Life peer) issues between the UK and other CPTPP countries, establishing a reciprocal arrangement, just as we have - Speech Link
3: Earl of Clancarty (XB - Excepted Hereditary) Time will tell by how much and with what enthusiasm they can persuade other countries to reach reciprocal - Speech Link
4: Baroness Lawlor (Con - Life peer) We have reviews of the arrangements under the CPTPP as they apply to members, and we have arrangements - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 12 Dec 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) We would work with Europol and get new security arrangements in place, which again, the Government are - Speech Link
2: Natalie Elphicke (Con - Dover) Under Lord Cameron, extraordinary arrangements were made with France to take joint action to stop the - Speech Link
3: Edward Leigh (Con - Gainsborough) Under the arrangements we have for removal to Albania, illegal migrants have even wider avenues for claims - Speech Link
4: Karl Turner (Lab - Kingston upon Hull East) Gentleman think of the reciprocal arrangement for the Rwandan Government to send asylum seekers to this - Speech Link
5: Meg Hillier (LAB - Hackney South and Shoreditch) It has been spent on reasonable things such as education, health and so on, but is there anything on - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [HL]
Committee stage - Thu 07 Dec 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Lansley (Con - Life peer) Of course, it did not extend to that industry; the Department of Health and Social Care has that responsibility - Speech Link
2: Lord McNicol of West Kilbride (Lab - Life peer) revealed that there are 119 pesticides, active substances, that we have banned in the UK to protect our health - Speech Link
3: Lord Johnson of Lainston (Con - Life peer) require the UK to change its levels of statutory protection in relation to (a) animal or plant life or health - Speech Link
4: None This is a question of reciprocal right. - Speech Link
5: Lord Foster of Bath (LD - Life peer) arrangements are with CPTPP member countries. - 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 Vaizey of Didcot (Con - Life peer) Our services trade to CPTPP members last year was 43% of our total services trade. - Speech Link
2: Lord Trees (XB - Life peer) and welfare, public health, the health of our farming industry, and animal health and welfare in the - Speech Link
3: Lord Grantchester (Lab - Excepted Hereditary) How would such arrangements work? - Speech Link
4: Lord Johnson of Lainston (Con - Life peer) These arrangements are reciprocal, which enables us to have our conformity assessment bodies assessed - Speech Link