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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
4: None They are very similar, whether in continental Europe, the United States, Singapore or Australia, by way - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
LGBT History Month - Thu 07 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Elliot Colburn (Con - Carshalton and Wallington) I am delighted to report that in 2023 the Cook Islands, Mauritius and Singapore joined their ranks.Same-sex - Speech Link
2: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) People will also ask serious questions about trade and investment. - Speech Link
3: Stuart Andrew (Con - Pudsey) There are lots of other countries in which we have lots of different agreements. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Brexit: Benefits to Economy and Society - Wed 06 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Offord of Garvel (Con - Life peer) That growth in trade is greatly assisted by our free trade agreements, now signed with 73 countries globally - Speech Link
2: Lord Offord of Garvel (Con - Life peer) I will keep to trade. - Speech Link
3: Lord Anderson of Swansea (Lab - Life peer) My Lords, have any of these trade deals cumulatively made up for the loss of trade to the European Union - Speech Link
4: Lord Offord of Garvel (Con - Life peer) will move much faster, and we recently had a situation where we sent a batch of valves from Burnley to Singapore - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Medical Devices (In Vitro Diagnostic Devices etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 - Tue 06 Feb 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (XB - Life peer) What steps are in place for mutual recognition agreements to be taken forward? - Speech Link
2: Baroness Merron (Lab - Life peer) They are important in that we have to secure continuity of supply and trade in medical devices within - Speech Link
3: Lord Markham (Con - Life peer) We know that the Australian, Canadian or Singapore regulators are top-notch, so we should be satisfied - Speech Link


Written Statements
Brexit: Fourth Anniversary - Wed 31 Jan 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Kemi Badenoch (Con - Saffron Walden) barriers since 2020, including in the US—our single largest trade partner. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords]
2nd reading - Mon 29 Jan 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Gareth Thomas (LAB - Harrow West) through trade; and 80% of the world being covered by new trade agreements. - Speech Link
2: Anthony Mangnall (Con - Totnes) agreements, not least because of the modelling but also because, as free trade agreements are signed - Speech Link
3: Anthony Mangnall (Con - Totnes) , so that it could report on these trade agreements. - Speech Link
4: Liam Byrne (Lab - Birmingham, Hodge Hill) agreements covering about 80% of British trade, and we are nowhere near that. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 25 Jan 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) agreements that we have agreed, including the comprehensive and progressive agreement for trans-Pacific - Speech Link
2: Greg Hands (Con - Chelsea and Fulham) It is not only fans of free trade agreements who have noticed; we have all noticed that the SNP has never - Speech Link
3: Nusrat Ghani (Con - Wealden) Overall, a whopping 12% of global trade volumes use this trade route and my Department is monitoring - Speech Link


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


Public Bill Committees
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Second sitting)
Committee stage: 2nd sitting - Tue 16 Jan 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) They flew officials out to Australia and Singapore, where I grew up and where we lived under strata title - Speech Link
2: Barry Gardiner (Lab - Brent North) It is not public until it is made public through section 106 agreements with the council. - Speech Link
3: Barry Gardiner (Lab - Brent North) I have to be honest: even once you have got in touch with guys from Singapore, Hong Kong, the middle - Speech Link
4: None , which was 6,000 individuals with qualifications to manage buildings, and ARMA, which used to be a trade - Speech Link
5: None We have participants who are practitioners, as well as all the trade bodies, regulators and redress schemes - 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: Lord McNicol of West Kilbride (Lab - Life peer) Indeed, with regard to the eight ILO conventions, Brunei has ratified only two and Malaysia and Singapore - 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 agreements with both Australia and Japan, both of which are members of the CPTPP. - Speech Link