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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: None Free trade agreements and bilateral agreements are often subject to parliamentary approval. - Speech Link
2: Lord Hamilton of Epsom (Con - Life peer) The fact is that all trade agreements are a compromise. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hayman (XB - Life peer) I referred to this briefly in Committee.The investor-state dispute settlement mechanism was brought in - Speech Link
4: None It is not necessarily effective to link this to the free trade agreements in terms of monitoring relating - Speech Link
5: None The knowledge that we have of investor protections and investor-state dispute settlement mechanisms is - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Climate Change: Impact on Developing Nations - Thu 11 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Winchester (Bshp - Bishops) implementation of those recommendations, which have even led to the passing of a UN Security Council resolution - Speech Link
2: Lord Hannan of Kingsclere (Con - Life peer) It was the elimination of obstacles to trade that lifted this nation to a pinnacle of unprecedented wealth - Speech Link
3: Baroness Chakrabarti (Lab - Life peer) supervise and monitor their application; otherwise, nations that accept and abide by environmental agreements - Speech Link
4: Earl of Sandwich (XB - Excepted Hereditary) A well-known example is the long border dispute at Abyei, half way between Sudan and South Sudan, where - Speech Link
5: Lord Benyon (Con - Life peer) investment in development, while strengthening and reforming the international system to improve action on trade - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Post Office Horizon Scandal - Wed 10 Jan 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: David Davis (Con - Haltemprice and Howden) (Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade if she will make a statement - Speech Link
2: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) It is a process of alternative dispute resolution. - Speech Link
3: Maria Miller (Con - Basingstoke) in all severance agreements? - Speech Link
4: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) Member is wrong to talk about the cases being litigated against; the process is done by dispute resolution - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Arbitration Bill [HL]
Second reading committee - Tue 19 Dec 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) That caused a certain amount of concern because there are many thousands of existing arbitration agreements - Speech Link
2: Lord Hope of Craighead (XB - Life peer) is essential if we are to ensure that England and Wales remains the jurisdiction of choice for the resolution - Speech Link
3: Lord Faulks (Non-affiliated - Life peer) resolution process”.He asked himself whether, on the facts, there was an irregularity within Section - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [HL]
Committee stage: Minutes of Proceedings - Thu 14 Dec 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Earl of Clancarty (XB - Excepted Hereditary) New Zealand, through separate trade agreements. - Speech Link
2: None We have trade agreements with most of them already. - Speech Link
3: Lord Leong (Lab - Life peer) The environmental chapter is enforceable under the CPTPP’s broader dispute resolution mechanism. - Speech Link
4: Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab - Life peer) The UK did not include ISDS in its recent trade agreements with Australia, New Zealand and Japan, and - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
2nd reading - Mon 11 Dec 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Michael Gove (Con - Surrey Heath) For example, the freehold of properties was sometimes held by trade unions or other enlightened organisations - Speech Link
2: Angela Rayner (Lab - Ashton-under-Lyne) Leaseholders are locked into expensive agreements and face unjustified administration fees and extortionate - Speech Link
3: Alistair Strathern (Lab - Mid Bedfordshire) proposed regulations in this area, to ensure that my long-suffering residents finally get the redress and resolution - Speech Link
4: Clive Betts (Lab - Sheffield South East) are so many issues in the housing field that need a specialism, and need quick decisions and quick resolution - Speech Link
5: Marsha De Cordova (Lab - Battersea) ; poor customer service; excessive administration charges; charges for applications to extend lease agreements - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Israel and Palestine - Mon 11 Dec 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) They end with a ceasefire; they end with a piece of paper signed; they end with agreements being reached - Speech Link
2: Kenny MacAskill (Alba - East Lothian) The arms trade is reprehensible. - Speech Link
3: Andy Slaughter (Lab - Hammersmith) The first petition reminds us that breaches of international law are nothing new in the Israel-Gaza dispute - Speech Link
4: Mick Whitley (Lab - Birkenhead) while they assess whether their exports to Israel are compliant with their obligations under the arms trade - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Media Bill (Third sitting)
Committee stage: 3rd sitting - Thu 07 Dec 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Stephanie Peacock (Lab - Barnsley East) allows for maximum flexibility in both legislation and negotiations, as well as proper protections where agreements - Speech Link
2: Stephanie Peacock (Lab - Barnsley East) There would be a separate C4C production business with its own board and governance, a proper dispute - Speech Link
3: John Whittingdale (Con - Maldon) Channel 4 commissions all its programming output externally, but that is usually governed by terms of trade - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill
2nd reading - Tue 05 Dec 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Etherton (XB - Life peer) already in the case of breaches of competition law.The second issue I wish to raise concerns alternative dispute - Speech Link
2: Lord Black of Brentwood (Con - Life peer) They have the money and the legal clout to slow dispute resolution down to such an extent that the terms - Speech Link
3: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab - Life peer) resolution and the right of redress. - Speech Link
4: Viscount Camrose (Con - Excepted Hereditary) I note that there were other issues raised which I have not addressed, such as alternative dispute resolution - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
Report stage - Wed 29 Nov 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Chris Bryant (Lab - Rhondda) the US and the European Union and therefore British businesses’ ability to rely on UK legislation to trade - Speech Link
2: Rosie Winterton (Lab - Doncaster Central) Resolution PrincipleStatement of Principle: “If I have a dispute, I can go to an independent Third Party - Speech Link
3: John Whittingdale (Con - Maldon) bring forward equivalent provisions as the Bill progresses in the other House, subject to the usual agreements - Speech Link
4: John Whittingdale (Con - Maldon) I know the Under-Secretary of State for Business and Trade, my hon. - Speech Link