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Commons Chamber
Food Security - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Robert Goodwill (Con - Scarborough and Whitby) The era of free trade did not submerge the country under cheap imports from the empire and new world, - Speech Link
2: Jo Gideon (Con - Stoke-on-Trent Central) food security and ensure that the food supply chain has access to sufficient labour, including from overseas - Speech Link
3: Neil Hudson (Con - Penrith and The Border) and the free passage of vessels, which has implications for the security of shipping and trade routes - Speech Link
4: Steven Bonnar (SNP - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill) Both at home and overseas, climate change is already causing chaos for our food supply. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Easter and Christian Culture - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Liz Twist (Lab - Blaydon) Labour MP, I cannot go without recognising the role of Christianity in the history of our party and our trade - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Human Rights: Sportswashing - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Moynihan (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Calls for a boycott would be very different if trade, cultural exchanges and diplomatic relations were - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) are currently pushing through your Lordships’ House, formally the Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas - Speech Link
3: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) guiding principles on business and human rights, including in their management of supply chains here and overseas - Speech Link
4: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) I have set out how His Majesty’s ambassador and all Crown servants overseas follow the policies of His - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill
Committee stage - Wed 20 Mar 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) An example of this would include encouraging trade with important trading partners. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Noakes (Con - Life peer) That was a complete surprise to me because the Bill is titled the Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Sri Lanka: Human Rights - Wed 20 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Elliot Colburn (Con - Carshalton and Wallington) Frustration continues within the Tamil community in Sri Lanka and overseas, which has long demanded a - Speech Link
2: Elliot Colburn (Con - Carshalton and Wallington) Trade deals and concessions require re-evaluation in light of Sri Lanka’s failure to uphold human rights - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) We have spoken on issues together and have had different adventures overseas, visiting some of those - Speech Link
4: Siobhain McDonagh (Lab - Mitcham and Morden) amendment faces losing their passport and will not be able to sit for public exams or even qualify for a trade - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Hong Kong Security Legislation - Wed 20 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: David Lammy (Lab - Tottenham) repression, especially towards the 160,000 Hongkongers who have come to the UK via the British national overseas - Speech Link
2: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) As she knows, we created the British national overseas route in 2020, which creates a pathway to permanent - Speech Link
3: Layla Moran (LD - Oxford West and Abingdon) The Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill was passed in - Speech Link
4: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) Friend the Secretary of State for Business and Trade said here yesterday. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Single Source Contract (Amendment) Regulations 2024 - Tue 19 Mar 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Earl of Minto (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Another example is where existing UK or overseas laws constrain the way prices are set in a way that - Speech Link
2: Lord Tunnicliffe (Lab - Life peer) simplicity of the previous system.I ask the Minister: how exactly will the Government quantify this trade-off - 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: Iain Duncan Smith (Con - Chingford and Woodford Green) Slave labour undercuts the World Trade Organisation and normal trade. - Speech Link
2: Liam Fox (Con - North Somerset) of verifiable information.”They also stated:“The Chinese Intelligence Services target the UK and its overseas - Speech Link
3: Stella Creasy (LAB - Walthamstow) So only a further 0.33%—not 33%—of total UK trade will come under the new trade agreements.The reality - Speech Link
4: Greg Hands (Con - Chelsea and Fulham) We support British businesses operating overseas. - Speech Link
5: Thérèse Coffey (Con - Suffolk Coastal) We said that we would look at all the standards when we went into new trade deals, and the Trade and - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
UK Tradeshow Programme Closure - Mon 18 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Johnson of Lainston (Con - Life peer) Access Programme, it still provides considerable support to small and medium enterprises to attend trade - Speech Link
2: Lord Leong (Lab - Life peer) the Tradeshow Access Programme provided vital support to thousands of SMEs to attend international trade - Speech Link
3: Lord Johnson of Lainston (Con - Life peer) stand in a very large trade show. - Speech Link
4: Lord Johnson of Lainston (Con - Life peer) CPTPP is not a single trade deal but a living agreement. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Spring Budget 2024 - Mon 18 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted (LD - Life peer) Every day, British assets are snapped up cheaply by overseas purchasers. - Speech Link
2: Lord Lee of Trafford (LD - Life peer) Many of my overseas, foreign friends are envious of the ISA. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of Worcester (Bshp - Bishops) This is surely a heartbreaking way to prioritise overseas aid spending. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Kramer (LD - Life peer) Our trade in services is strong, but the UK’s growth in goods trade is well below expectations and well - Speech Link