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Grand Committee
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
Committee stage - Wed 27 Mar 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab - Life peer) Without this clause, data subjects will be forced to deal with overseas data handlers, with all the cultural - Speech Link
2: Viscount Camrose (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Bill and reinstate Article 27, and Amendment 80, which seeks to do the same but just in respect of overseas - Speech Link
3: Lord Bassam of Brighton (Lab - Life peer) government amendments with some care, but I wonder if he could explain how data transfers are made to an overseas - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Israel and Gaza - Tue 26 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) As he indicated, we advise the Department for Business and Trade on the situation in-country. - Speech Link
2: Sarah Champion (Lab - Rotherham) deteriorating situation in Gaza, does he agree that it is vital that the Cabinet Minister responsible for overseas - Speech Link
3: Chris Law (SNP - Dundee West) take all precautions to adhere to their obligations as a party to the genocide convention and the arms trade - Speech Link
4: Richard Foord (LD - Tiverton and Honiton) States and parties to the arms trade treaty are obliged to deny arms exports if there is an overriding - Speech Link


Written Statements
Export Statistics Update - Tue 26 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Greg Hands (Con - Chelsea and Fulham) 31 March 2021, the previous Government published their policy on support for the fossil fuel sector overseas - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill
3rd reading - Tue 26 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Bassam of Brighton (Lab - Life peer) We have come to understand better just how complicated the terms of international trade are and how careful - Speech Link
2: None country or territory outside the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man or the British Overseas - Speech Link
3: Lord Offord of Garvel (Con - Life peer) Bill team, my private office, and all the officials and lawyers in the Department for Business and Trade - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill
2nd reading - Tue 26 Mar 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Lord Callanan (Con - Life peer) are not wanted here to deliver our own production and our own energy transition, they will surely go overseas - Speech Link
2: Lord Lilley (Con - Life peer) If, in a crisis, a country has supplies of crude, it can trade it for other types of crude that work - Speech Link
3: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) It does not matter from where on earth those fossil fuels are extracted or what the balance of trade - Speech Link
4: Baroness Young of Old Scone (Lab - Life peer) I do not accept the belief of the noble Lord, Lord Lilley, that we can force trade from having the wrong - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Cybersecurity and UK Democracy - Tue 26 Mar 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: None That is why this Government have investigated and called out so-called Chinese overseas police service - Speech Link
2: Lord Fox (LD - Life peer) an unnamed Cabinet Minister quoted in the press as saying that the Government do not want to start a trade - Speech Link
3: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) I put it to the Minister that with a multi-billion-pound trade deficit with China, we are insufficiently - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone (Con - Life peer) , I have been very involved with the International Chamber of Commerce, and we believe that through trade - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Accounting Standards (Prescribed Bodies) (United States of America and Japan) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 - Tue 26 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Offord of Garvel (Con - Life peer) proportionate mechanism to reduce the risk of abuse.Regrettably, my department, the Department for Business and Trade - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 25 Mar 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) Gentleman will recognise that I look after the Defence budget, rather than the overseas development budget - Speech Link
2: Mark Pawsey (Con - Rugby) to Singapore, and it was achieved with the assistance of the MOD and the Department for Business and Trade - Speech Link
3: James Heappey (Con - Wells) The UK continually assesses potential threats to our overseas territories, including the sovereign base - Speech Link
4: James Cartlidge (Con - South Suffolk) I am pleased to say that we held the first UK trade mission in December, and that there will be further - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 22 Mar 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: John Spellar (Lab - Warley) I hope the Bill will help reduce the attraction to such trade. - Speech Link
2: Ruth Jones (Lab - Newport West) , of the principal wildlife trade regulation. - Speech Link
3: Rebecca Pow (Con - Taunton Deane) the import ban will not prevent a UK resident or citizen from participating in hunting while they are overseas - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Armed Forces Readiness and Defence Equipment - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Richard Foord (LD - Tiverton and Honiton) greater than other measures of inflation, partly because a lot of our defence equipment is imported from overseas - Speech Link
2: Alec Shelbrooke (Con - Elmet and Rothwell) Perhaps we need more Navy, because that will become a much more critical area in our security, our trade - Speech Link