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Lords Chamber
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
2nd reading - Tue 19 Dec 2023
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Lord Kamall (Con - Life peer) If the EU is raising these issues in its agreements, we can thank it for doing that.I obviously was involved - Speech Link
2: Lord Vaux of Harrowden (XB - Excepted Hereditary) They also help streamline supply chain management and allow business to scale and trade globally”. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of Southwell and Nottingham (Bshp - Bishops) give the House that the Bill will retain public trust and will not diverge even from current adequacy agreements - Speech Link
4: Lord Kirkhope of Harrogate (Con - Life peer) assessment lists the United States, Australia, the Republic of Korea, Dubai International Finance Centre, Singapore - 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 Beith (LD - Life peer) It is indeed competitive: was it last year or the year before when Singapore equalled the amount of arbitration - 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 One example is Singapore and the work of the Monetary Authority of Singapore. - Speech Link
3: 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
4: None We have trade agreements with most of them already. - 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


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: Marsha De Cordova (Lab - Battersea) ; poor customer service; excessive administration charges; charges for applications to extend lease agreements - Speech Link
4: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) storeys and the majority of which will be more than 20 storeys, at a density greater than Manhattan, Singapore - 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 Lansley (Con - Life peer) we have bilateral agreements, such as Singapore, give us hope that CPTPP will be, once more, a leader - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Earl of Minto (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Our regional British defence staff are expanding their influence and we have defence presence in Singapore - Speech Link
2: Lord Vaizey of Didcot (Con - Life peer) South-east Asia—Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore and five other countries—is - Speech Link
3: Lord Kirkhope of Harrogate (Con - Life peer) They will never be sufficient replacements for agreements with the EU as a whole. - Speech Link
4: 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 Altrincham (Con - Excepted Hereditary) It would be like the regulatory environment in Singapore, which allows for the growth of Singapore but - Speech Link
5: Lord Horam (Con - Life peer) Per head of population, Singapore is much richer than the UK and South Korea is nearly as rich. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Long-Term Strategic Challenges Posed by China - Thu 19 Oct 2023
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Earl Howe (Con - Excepted Hereditary) The Five Power Defence Arrangements, where we work together with Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand and Singapore - Speech Link
2: Baroness Coussins (XB - Life peer) Schools do not have any contractual agreements with any Chinese organisation; their agreements are with - Speech Link
3: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) As the noble Earl correctly indicated, total European trade with China is €450 billion, but the UK trade - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
UK-EU Relationship (European Affairs Committee Report) - Wed 20 Sep 2023
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (CB - Life peer) We could tone down the bombast a bit—the exceptionalism and chest-beating, as with the Truss trade agreements - Speech Link
2: Lord Howard of Rising (CON - Life peer) £1.7 billion of services in 2022.Less than two weeks ago, the UK signed a strategic partnership with Singapore - Speech Link
3: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (CON - Life peer) As an independent trading nation, we now have 70 trade agreements in place, including new deals with - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
UK Export Performance - Mon 18 Sep 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Gareth Thomas (LAB - Harrow West) would be conducted under the free trade agreements that Ministers would have signed by now, and that - Speech Link
2: Aaron Bell (CON - Newcastle-under-Lyme) We have signed a digital agreement with Singapore and included significant digital chapters in the deals - Speech Link
3: Afzal Khan (LAB - Manchester, Gorton) It is true that the UK has started negotiations for trade agreements with some of the world’s largest - Speech Link