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Arbitration Bill [HL]
Lords Special Public Bill Committee: Part 1 - Wed 27 Mar 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd (XB - Life peer) the need for change and faced up to the increasingly severe competition for this desirable legal and dispute - Speech Link
2: Lord Mendelsohn (Lab - Life peer) the law of arbitration that arbitral tribunals should confine themselves strictly to the financial dispute - Speech Link
3: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) Court of International Arbitration, the London Maritime Arbitrators Association and the Grain and Feed Trade - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 26 Mar 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Emma Hardy (Lab - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle) should encourage all funeral directors to subject themselves to voluntary regulation by one of the trade - Speech Link
2: Mike Freer (Con - Finchley and Golders Green) This afternoon, I am meeting the two major trade bodies to discuss how they can assist with voluntary - Speech Link
3: Fabian Hamilton (Lab - Leeds North East) What steps he is taking to prevent the potential abuse of lasting power of attorney agreements. - Speech Link
4: Fabian Hamilton (Lab - Leeds North East) More than 6 million people in Britain have lasting power of attorney agreements. - Speech Link
5: Laura Farris (Con - Newbury) It is not in dispute that rape is the most serious offence a person can experience that is not homicide - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Christians: Persecution - Mon 25 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Foster of Aghadrumsee (Non-affiliated - Life peer) We talk a lot in this House about creating foreign policies to aid stabilisation, conflict resolution - Speech Link
2: Earl of Sandwich (XB - Excepted Hereditary) This is a highly respected NGO, and I am not intending to dispute the figures.At that time, evidence - Speech Link
3: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) The noble Earl, Lord Sandwich, raised the question of trade deals. - Speech Link
4: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) Last June, we led a resolution at the UN Security Council, with the UAE, on tolerance and international - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town (Lab - Life peer) might be challenged via the state-to-state dispute mechanism. - Speech Link
2: Lord Lansley (Con - Life peer) , open trade, a rules-based trading system and not simply to bilateral agreements but to plurilateral - Speech Link
3: Lord Anderson of Swansea (Lab - Life peer) Yet such bilateral or plurilateral agreements should be put in perspective: the best trade agreement - Speech Link
4: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con - Life peer) Finally, what is the position on the dispute-resolution mechanism that is available under the agreement - Speech Link
5: Lord Goldsmith (Lab - Life peer) debate on Rwanda—and everyone knows what result that reached—but we have not had a response to the resolution - 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) That is why the new clause is needed.Under UK trade policy, it is not unusual for bilateral trade agreements - Speech Link
2: Dominic Raab (Con - Esher and Walton) On investor-state dispute resolution, he is absolutely right that we must not give way to the naysayers - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Post Office Legislation - Wed 13 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) open to applicants throughout the UK, once convictions have been overturned.I thank the Business and Trade - Speech Link
2: Robert Neill (Con - Bromley and Chislehurst) He will know that claimant lawyers such as Neil Hudgell, who gave evidence to the Business and Trade - Speech Link
3: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) will keep an open mind on that.We already have fixed timescales to respond to offers or service level agreements - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill
Report stage - Mon 11 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: None State who are currently involved in this legislation, for DSIT and the Department for Business and Trade - Speech Link
2: Lord Black of Brentwood (Con - Life peer) to be initiated by the CMA after a conduct requirement of the type allowed under Clause 20(2)(a)—to“trade - Speech Link
3: Viscount Camrose (Con - Excepted Hereditary) types of conduct requirement can also be used to ensure interoperability, such as requirements for“trade - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)
Committee stage: 2nd sitting - Thu 07 Mar 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Tom Tugendhat (Con - Tonbridge and Malling) Department for Work and Pensions, the Treasury, the National Crime Agency, the Department for Business and Trade - Speech Link
2: Tom Tugendhat (Con - Tonbridge and Malling) Are they governed by the association agreements and terms and conditions of the companies, or are they - Speech Link
3: Stuart C McDonald (SNP - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) I do not think anyone would dispute that at all.The experts argue that an unintended consequence of being - Speech Link
4: Tom Tugendhat (Con - Tonbridge and Malling) face the challenge that although we obviously commit to fulfilling our side of the TCA and the various agreements - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 20 Feb 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) Lady shakes her head, but one can dispute opinions in this House, but not facts. - Speech Link
2: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) Lady asks me to liaise with the Department for Business and Trade. - Speech Link
3: Sarah Green (LD - Chesham and Amersham) What discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the use of non-disclosure agreements in judicial - Speech Link
4: Mike Freer (Con - Finchley and Golders Green) Non-disclosure agreements cannot prevent any disclosure that is required or protected by law; nor can - Speech Link
5: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) grounds that the“only people who would benefit from their reintroduction are unscrupulous bosses”.The Resolution - 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: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Lab - Slough) That includes advocating for the integration of binding labour standards in trade agreements and ensuring - Speech Link
2: Greg Hands (Con - Chelsea and Fulham) We are also having a debate on where CPTPP interacts with other trade agreements, but quite often, if - Speech Link
3: Greg Hands (Con - Chelsea and Fulham) We have been through this many times in different Trade Bills and different free trade agreements. - Speech Link
4: Anna McMorrin (Lab - Cardiff North) The sustainability of this puts into question all our trade agreements in CPTPP. - Speech Link
5: Greg Hands (Con - Chelsea and Fulham) We know that free trade agreements have the potential to contribute to preference erosion. - Speech Link