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Lords Chamber
Passport e-Gates Network Outage - Mon 13 May 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None The queues remained manageable and within health and safety parameters. - Speech Link
2: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) network connectivity caused a number of Home Office IT systems to lose service, including customer services - Speech Link
3: Lord Taylor of Holbeach (Con - Life peer) eGates because of the extension that has been granted from this country into the Netherlands and the reciprocal - Speech Link
4: Baroness Foster of Oxton (Con - Life peer) if we are willing to welcome other countries’ citizens into our country using eGates, it should be a reciprocal - Speech Link
5: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) These are matters of high-level diplomacy but I will, of course, look into the reciprocity arrangements - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Global Intergenerational Week 2024 - Thu 09 May 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Marion Fellows (SNP - Motherwell and Wishaw) In an age-friendly community, policy, services and infrastructure are designed to respond flexibly to - Speech Link
2: Marion Fellows (SNP - Motherwell and Wishaw) Young and old people are often separated from each other due to age-segregated activities and living arrangements - Speech Link
3: Anneliese Dodds (LAB - Oxford East) We have heard many great examples during this brief discussion today, such as living arrangements bringing - Speech Link
4: Stuart Andrew (Con - Pudsey) It helps to connect people to the community-based support, including activities and services, that meet - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
British Nationality (Irish Citizens) Bill
3rd reading - Fri 26 Apr 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North) arrangements are not in place to ensure that Irish citizens have a route to British citizenship if they - Speech Link
2: Tom Tugendhat (Con - Tonbridge and Malling) nationals already enjoy the right to work, study and vote, alongside having benefits such as access to our health - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 25 Apr 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) scheme was not deemed to be in our interests, and it was due to the fact that it was not going to be reciprocal - Speech Link
2: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) It is very clear: if you want better services at lower cost, vote Conservative. - Speech Link
3: Martin Vickers (Con - Cleethorpes) on through services from Grimsby and Cleethorpes to London. - Speech Link
4: Mark Eastwood (Con - Dewsbury) auditors said about Kirklees:“We have been unable to satisfy ourselves that the Council has made proper arrangements - Speech Link
5: Andrew Bridgen (Ind - North West Leicestershire) Can we have a statement from a Health Minister? - Speech Link


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