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Written Statements
Instrument of Accession to CPTPP - Fri 17 May 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Greg Hands (Con - Chelsea and Fulham) this significant moment, the UK has moved a vital step closer to acceding to one of the largest free trade - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
UK Trade Performance - Tue 07 May 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Offord of Garvel (Con - Life peer) In 2019, when we left, it was 16% of global trade and by 2050 it will be 9% of global trade. - Speech Link
2: Lord Offord of Garvel (Con - Life peer) talk to our companies about the CPTPP and the fact that you can go to Mexico, Canada, Peru, Chile, Singapore - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 02 May 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Kemi Badenoch (Con - Saffron Walden) The fact of the matter is that the US is not carrying out any free trade agreements with any country. - Speech Link
2: Greg Hands (Con - Chelsea and Fulham) Three of the 11 parties have ratified so far—Japan, Chile and Singapore—and we look forward to further - Speech Link
3: Greg Hands (Con - Chelsea and Fulham) It is actually Scottish goods that benefit from so many of these trade agreements that we have negotiated - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
UK Trade Performance - Wed 01 May 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Gareth Thomas (LAB - Harrow West) agreements in place with at least 80% of the world, and to have a trade deal with the United States. - Speech Link
2: Liam Byrne (Lab - Birmingham, Hodge Hill) , which provokes the question of why we are not pursuing services-only trade agreements in a more expansive - Speech Link
3: Kemi Badenoch (Con - Saffron Walden) We have done two of those: one with Singapore and one with Ukraine about digital trade exclusively. - Speech Link
4: Rob Butler (Con - Aylesbury) Does she agree that it is thanks to Brexit that we can forge such one-to-one trade agreements that are - Speech Link
5: Jonathan Gullis (Con - Stoke-on-Trent North) agreements with countries such as India? - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
UK Trade: Aviation - Wed 01 May 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Henry Smith (Con - Crawley) I thank Mr Speaker for granting me this debate on the importance of aviation to UK trade and to the future - Speech Link
2: Robert Syms (Con - Poole) The World Bank recently conducted a survey in which it looked at the future of world trade. - Speech Link
3: Henry Smith (Con - Crawley) a positive trade balance of more than £300 billion.Businesses in these sectors have been interviewed - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
NHS: Long-term Sustainability - Thu 18 Apr 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Baroness Ramsey of Wall Heath (Lab - Life peer) They were Lancastrians, children of men who worked down the pit, from a long line of proud trade unionists - Speech Link
2: Lord Warner (XB - Life peer) other health quangos, which would get a further lot of cheers.Secondly, we should consider emulating Singapore - Speech Link
3: Lord St John of Bletso (XB - Excepted Hereditary) I agree with the excellent suggestion of my noble friend Lord Warner of assimilating the Singapore healthcare - Speech Link
4: Baroness Merron (Lab - Life peer) have to tout their technology to each individual NHS trust; we would stop the need to sign separate agreements - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Litigation Funding Agreements (Enforceability) Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Mon 15 Apr 2024
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Stewart of Dirleton (Con - Life peer) The Litigation Funding Agreements (Enforceability) Bill provides that LFAs are not damages-based agreements - Speech Link
2: Lord Wolfson of Tredegar (Con - Life peer) than the cases the funding agreements are there to support.True it is that some funding agreements were - Speech Link
3: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (Lab - Life peer) The issues are very similar, whether in continental Europe, the United States, Singapore or Australia - Speech Link
4: Lord Stewart of Dirleton (Con - Life peer) That prompted me to recollect the importance of associations such as trade unions and others in providing - Speech Link


Other Business
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) position of other states, included information about important international arbitration centres such as Singapore - Speech Link
2: 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 - Mon 25 Mar 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Mark Pawsey (Con - Rugby) That order is going to Singapore, and it was achieved with the assistance of the MOD and the Department - Speech Link
2: James Cartlidge (Con - South Suffolk) and the Singapore navy. - Speech Link
3: James Cartlidge (Con - South Suffolk) I am pleased to say that we held the first UK trade mission in December, and that there will be further - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Armed Forces Readiness and Defence Equipment - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Kevan Jones (Lab - North Durham) that happens in the south-east of the South China sea—that having two offshore patrol vessels based in Singapore - Speech Link
2: Alec Shelbrooke (Con - Elmet and Rothwell) Perhaps we need more Navy, because that will become a much more critical area in our security, our trade - Speech Link
3: John Healey (Lab - Wentworth and Dearne) respect, as the world does, the professionalism with which they do their job.I welcome the further AUKUS agreements - Speech Link
4: John Healey (Lab - Wentworth and Dearne) Whether it is Royal Navy ships’ days at sea or MACA agreements struck with other Departments, data that - Speech Link