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Lords Chamber
Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [HL] - Tue 23 Jan 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Johnson of Lainston (Con - Life peer) I should go first in the order of debate.The Bill is a narrow one, focused on technical barriers to trade - Speech Link
2: Lord Johnson of Lainston (Con - Life peer) It builds on the free trade agreements that entered into force between the UK and Australia and New Zealand - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill
2nd reading - Mon 22 Jan 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Nia Griffith (Lab - Llanelli) urging other nations to do more to tackle climate change and reduce reliance on fossil fuels—and signing agreements - Speech Link
2: David Duguid (Con - Banff and Buchan) production in this country, is not in contradiction to delivering on our net zero targets and global agreements - Speech Link
3: Vicky Ford (Con - Chelmsford) watched in horror when the Deepwater Horizon explosion caused an environmental catastrophe in the gulf of Mexico - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Biosecurity and Infectious Diseases - Thu 18 Jan 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Trees (XB - Life peer) Animal products can be in the UK in less than 12 hours from countries such as Mexico or Thailand.A good - Speech Link
2: Lord Taylor of Holbeach (Con - Life peer) Without doubt, Brexit has hindered this trade, particularly with the Netherlands, in both additional - Speech Link
3: Lord de Clifford (XB - Excepted Hereditary) agreements with other nations whose biosecurity policies may not be as robust as the UK’s, we need to - Speech Link


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 Lawlor (Con - Life peer) Of those countries, Malaysia, Vietnam and Mexico have the highest level of imports from China. - Speech Link
4: Lord McNicol of West Kilbride (Lab - Life peer) In Mexico, for example, companies regularly engage in union busting and in Vietnam, union leadership - Speech Link
5: None It is not necessarily effective to link this to the free trade agreements in terms of monitoring relating - 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: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) If we have trade preference agreements, they must be protected, and we have to ensure that there is no - Speech Link
3: None We have trade agreements with most of them already. - Speech Link
4: Lord Johnson of Lainston (Con - Life peer) We will ensure that any new trade agreements, including this one, are compatible with that policy agenda - Speech Link
5: 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


Lords Chamber
Latin America - Thu 07 Dec 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hooper (Con - Life peer) Mexico is the second-biggest economy. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Coussins (XB - Life peer) Indeed, between 2017 and 2021, only one-third of trade agreements contained ISDS clauses and other countries - Speech Link
3: Lord Mountevans (XB - Excepted Hereditary) For example, there are now eight double taxation agreements, including with Brazil, and the shiny new - Speech Link
4: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) agreements with the Andean region and Chile, and we are making progress on negotiations with Mexico. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Tue 21 Nov 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Vaizey of Didcot (Con - Life peer) The UK already has free trade agreements with most of the CPTPP members. - Speech Link
2: Lord Livingston of Parkhead (Con - Life peer) Since then, our trade with South Korea has gone up by a factor of roughly three times, so trade agreements - Speech Link
3: Lord Udny-Lister (Con - Life peer) Trade agreements are absolutely pointless if businesses are not able to go through the door and trade - Speech Link
4: Lord Johnson of Lainston (Con - Life peer) In fact, we have not imported an egg from Mexico, for example, since 2015. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Wed 15 Nov 2023
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Earl of Minto (Con - Excepted Hereditary) agreement negotiations with India, Mexico and the Gulf Cooperation Council.To keep delivering globally - Speech Link
2: Lord Morrow (DUP - Life peer) Agreements must be kept, but we cannot collapse international society into that principle abstracted - Speech Link
3: Lord Vaizey of Didcot (Con - Life peer) Our trade with south-east Asia is bigger than our trade with India or with Japan, and double our trade - Speech Link
4: Lord Kirkhope of Harrogate (Con - Life peer) They will never be sufficient replacements for agreements with the EU as a whole. - Speech Link
5: Lord Udny-Lister (Con - Life peer) This is partly because the future of trade, particularly digital trade, is entwined with advancements - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Mon 13 Nov 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Sheehan (LD - Life peer) It flies in the face of our international agreements, is on the wrong side of history and will not bring - Speech Link
2: Baroness O'Grady of Upper Holloway (Lab - Life peer) That must include new rights to technology agreements, a human review of AI decisions and the right to - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of Norwich (Bshp - Bishops) biodiversity loss”.Past UK Governments have been instrumental in seeking and shaping international agreements - Speech Link
4: Lord Leong (Lab - Life peer) I fear the Government’s claims for the CPTPP trade Bill are optimistic, to say the least. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LD - Life peer) farmers will benefit from reduced tariffs on cheese and butter exports to Canada, Chile, Japan and Mexico - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill
Report stage - Wed 25 Oct 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) to avoid sourcing medical equipment from certain suppliers, such as Malaysia, Thailand, Pakistan or Mexico - Speech Link
2: Greg Smith (Con - Buckingham) On international agreements, does my right hon. - Speech Link