Mentions:
1: Bob Seely (Con - Isle of Wight) Trade dumping is an absolutely critical element of this. - Speech Link
2: Neil Coyle (Lab - Bermondsey and Old Southwark) specifically and the Government’s responsibility to Hong Kong nationals and those seeking British national overseas - Speech Link
3: Catherine West (Lab - Hornsey and Wood Green) Hundreds of thousands of Hongkongers have fled for a better life overseas, with less repression and more - Speech Link
4: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) We also introduced a British National (Overseas) immigration path, granting over 191,000 visas to date.During - Speech Link
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1: Sarah Champion (Lab - Rotherham) The UK’s overseas territories have 94% of our unique native wild species, and 11% of those are threatened - Speech Link
2: Chris Grayling (Con - Epsom and Ewell) the work done by people at Chester zoo; I have been to talk to them about their work on elephants in India - Speech Link
3: Alex Sobel (LAB - Leeds North West) We need the legislation, but we also need the Department for Business and Trade to have sight of the - Speech Link
4: Toby Perkins (Lab - Chesterfield) into four discrete strands for each of the devolved nations, as well as including additional plans for overseas - Speech Link
5: Rebecca Pow (Con - Taunton Deane) That is in addition to our UK overseas territories and Crown dependencies. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Garden of Frognal (LD - Life peer) Founded in 1878 by the City of London and 16 of the livery companies to promote training in trade and - Speech Link
2: Lord Patten (Con - Life peer) in Europe for foreign direct investment, and this is led by tough-minded investors from the US and India - Speech Link
3: Baroness Coussins (XB - Life peer) 38% of businesses expect to need language skills.Yet employers are frequently forced to recruit from overseas - Speech Link
4: Lord Lingfield (Con - Life peer) Also unavailable to them next year, when funding ceases for level 3 vocational trade programmes, will - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None When I am overseas, as Secretary of State for Business and Trade, other countries speak with nothing - Speech Link
2: Lord McNicol of West Kilbride (Lab - Life peer) Given that this House has repeatedly been promised an amazing trade deal with India, usually by Diwali—that - Speech Link
3: Lord Offord of Garvel (Con - Life peer) What we are doing with India is groundbreaking.When it comes to steel, we have net zero targets. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) Chambers of Commerce figures for the fourth quarter of 2023 show that 50% of SMEs have had no change in overseas - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) agreement, which sets the parameters for UK trade and investment with the State of Israel. - Speech Link
2: Lord Willetts (Con - Life peer) I remember when I used to go on missions to India, accompanied on a couple of occasions by the vice-chancellor - Speech Link
3: Lord Leigh of Hurley (Con - Life peer) I also went on a trade trip to China with the vice-chancellors. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Neale Hanvey (Alba - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath) recent discussions she has had with the Scottish Government on the promotion of Scottish products in overseas - Speech Link
2: Daniel Kawczynski (Con - Shrewsbury and Atcham) an extremely important region for the United Kingdom, one of the largest concentrations of British overseas - Speech Link
3: Allan Dorans (SNP - Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock) What steps is the Secretary of State taking to ensure that, in any trade deal signed with India, that - Speech Link
4: Greg Hands (Con - Chelsea and Fulham) India is obviously in a pre-election period as well. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Kemi Badenoch (Con - Saffron Walden) With permission, I would like to make a statement on the UK’s trade performance.When I am overseas, - Speech Link
2: Gareth Thomas (LAB - Harrow West) Given that this House has repeatedly been promised an amazing trade deal with India, usually by Diwali - Speech Link
3: Kemi Badenoch (Con - Saffron Walden) I recommend that he gets a briefing on exactly what is going on with steel production in the UK.On India - Speech Link
4: Jonathan Gullis (Con - Stoke-on-Trent North) agreements with countries such as India? - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Philip Hollobone (Con - Kettering) She mentioned the overseas territories, which fall under the remit of the FCDO. - Speech Link
2: Andrew Selous (Con - South West Bedfordshire) India, which is to be welcomed. - Speech Link
3: Emma Hardy (Lab - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle) very excited about all this.It is time to stop presenting the protection of the natural world as a trade-off - Speech Link
4: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Con - Berwick-upon-Tweed) Bedfordshire (Andrew Selous) highlighted that the UK’s blue belt now protects an area of ocean larger than India - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Just to clarify that point, we will not be able to request information on overseas accounts.On the question - Speech Link
2: None This year will see elections in India, the USA, the EU and, almost certainly, the United Kingdom. - Speech Link
3: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) There must be no trade-off between scientific collaboration and data privacy; that is what this amendment - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Afzal Khan (Lab - Manchester, Gorton) most common origin countries for which family-related visas were granted last year were Pakistan and India - Speech Link
2: Siobhan Baillie (Con - Stroud) She has a trade in the UK as a beauty therapist with her online business, and she has considered coming - Speech Link
3: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) also, of course, damaged by silly visa rules that make it impossible for us to recruit people from overseas - Speech Link
4: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) years from people working in Indian restaurants who want to bring particularly skilled chefs over from India - Speech Link