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Public Bill Committees
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill (Third sitting)
Committee stage: 3rd sitting - Thu 07 Sep 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Felicity Buchan (CON - Kensington) Organisation agreements, which impose restrictions on the UK central Government and a very wide range - Speech Link
2: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) But groping around for just a resolution of the UN, which is a pretty weak source of international law - Speech Link
3: Anum Qaisar (SNP - Airdrie and Shotts) There is no dispute that it does not bind a public authority per se, but it would undoubtedly bind a - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
Report stage: Part 2 - Wed 06 Sep 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (CON - Life peer) of the point made during our debate in Committee by my noble friend Lord Young of Cookham, about the trade-off - Speech Link
2: Lord Redesdale (LDEM - Life peer) Dispute resolution may therefore be needed to resolve, for example, city council X cutting funds to its - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (LAB - Life peer) resolution, environmental record services and archives. - Speech Link
4: None The noble Lord’s Amendment 262 seeks to make provision for a dispute resolution process. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (LAB - Life peer) local authorities some years since the implementation of CIL to become proficient in negotiating these agreements - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Non-disclosure Agreements in the Workplace - Tue 05 Sep 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Mary Robinson (CON - Cheadle) Of those who do, just 3% reach a full resolution. - Speech Link
2: Layla Moran (LDEM - Oxford West and Abingdon) As we have heard, non-disclosure agreements were designed as a legal tool to protect trade secrets, but - Speech Link
3: Jess Phillips (LAB - Birmingham, Yardley) Don’t worry because, you know, trade secrets.” - Speech Link
4: Justin Madders (LAB - Ellesmere Port and Neston) this issue is fundamentally about power and its imbalance, which I will come to in my speech.I do not dispute - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership - Tue 18 Jul 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Nigel Huddleston (CON - Mid Worcestershire) Membership of that agreement will be a welcome addition to our bilateral free-trade agreements with more - Speech Link
2: Helen Morgan (LDEM - North Shropshire) Committee, which provides important scrutiny of the process for free trade agreements, produced a report - Speech Link
3: Nick Thomas-Symonds (LAB - Torfaen) resolution mechanism? - Speech Link
4: Nigel Huddleston (CON - Mid Worcestershire) He will be aware that the US is not entering into free trade agreements with anybody at the moment. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Illicit Finance: War in Ukraine - Thu 13 Jul 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Bernard Jenkin (CON - Harwich and North Essex) and waste of increasing state-on-state warfare, with all its death and destruction, and economic and trade - Speech Link
2: Iain Duncan Smith (CON - Chingford and Woodford Green) On the Minsk agreements, I remember sitting in Cabinet on this. - Speech Link
3: Iain Duncan Smith (CON - Chingford and Woodford Green) developed to allow seizure pursuant to such adjudication.The UN General Assembly has already adopted a resolution - Speech Link
4: Ronnie Cowan (SNP - Inverclyde) we are talking about here could be used to fund the UK’s diplomatic service, foreign embassies and trade - Speech Link
5: Bernard Jenkin (CON - Harwich and North Essex) It has not been a debate wracked by dispute and contention; it has been a consensual afternoon. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Illegal Migration Bill - Tue 11 Jul 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Stephen Kinnock (LAB - Aberavon) have seen channel crossings skyrocket, with the busiest June yet for the criminal people smuggling trade - Speech Link
2: None The Minister failed to mention that, in the majority of cases where there is a dispute about age, the - Speech Link
3: Tim Farron (LDEM - Westmorland and Lonsdale) He got to the stage where he almost did not care if he got kicked out; he just wanted a resolution. - Speech Link
4: David Simmonds (CON - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner) In one case that I am aware of, Hillingdon recovered a girl from the sex trade on the continent of Europe - Speech Link
5: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) The Government have no mandate for the Bill and no mandate to undermine human rights agreements that - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Violence in the West Bank - Tue 04 Jul 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Beth Winter (LAB - Cynon Valley) Palestinian Authority leadership has resolved to“immediately petition the UN Security Council to implement Resolution - Speech Link
2: Alicia Kearns (CON - Rutland and Melton) that and stand ready to continue to do so, but they must see meaningful efforts to stand up for the agreements - Speech Link
3: Crispin Blunt (CON - Reigate) the context of, for years, Israel building settlements that block the route to a settlement of this dispute - Speech Link
4: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (CON - Berwick-upon-Tweed) We work with Israel in many areas, from security to trade. It is an important partner. - Speech Link
5: Philippa Whitford (SNP - Central Ayrshire) The UK has long claimed to support a two-state solution, endorsed UN Security Council resolution 2334 - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Energy Bill [ Lords ] (Eighteenth sitting)
Committee stage: 18th sitting - Thu 29 Jun 2023
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Olivia Blake (LAB - Sheffield, Hallam) The investor-state dispute settlement mechanism in the treaty allows foreign companies to sue Governments - Speech Link
2: Andrew Bowie (CON - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine) The UK has investment agreements with around 90 trading partners, and the agreements are the responsibility - Speech Link
3: None this section may not be made unless a draft of the instrument has been laid before and approved by a resolution - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Victims and Prisoners Bill (Fifth sitting)
Committee stage: 5th sitting - Tue 27 Jun 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Sarah Champion (LAB - Rotherham) NDAs are contracts that were created to protect trade secrets, but when used incorrectly they become - Speech Link
2: Anna McMorrin (LAB - Cardiff North) incidents of antisocial behaviour over a six-month period, at which point the victim can seek a community resolution - Speech Link
3: Maria Eagle (LAB - Garston and Halewood) the threshold”; “We can’t do anything about it”; “It’s a civil matter”; or, “It’s just a neighbour dispute - Speech Link
4: Maria Eagle (LAB - Garston and Halewood) going to the police is a first resort so they can induce the impression among the police that it is a dispute - Speech Link
5: Anna McMorrin (LAB - Cardiff North) are criminal, so the police are left not knowing whose side to be on, thinking it is a neighbourhood dispute - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Double Taxation Relief and International Tax Enforcement (Brazil) Order 2023 Draft Double Taxation Relief and International Tax Enforcement (San Marino) Order 2023 - Tue 27 Jun 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Victoria Atkins (CON - Louth and Horncastle) Nestled among us is the United Kingdom trade envoy to Brazil, my hon. - Speech Link
2: Victoria Atkins (CON - Louth and Horncastle) between both countries and that the Brazilian tax agreement covers some nearly £8 billion in trade. - Speech Link