Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership
Debate between Lord Purvis of Tweed and Lord Fowler(3 years, 11 months ago)
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The Lord Speaker (Lord Fowler)
I call the noble Lord, Lord Haskel. Lord Haskel? No? We will move on.
Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD)
My Lords, before looking to very long-term ambitions for joining regional economic partnerships, is it not better for the Government to focus absolutely on the trade agreements that we already have and are struggling to roll over? The update from the Government yesterday says that, for the first time that we know of, we will, from 1 January, be trading on WTO terms with countries that we had a trade agreement with before—a real failure of this Government. One of the RCEP countries is Vietnam; when will we see the details for the rollover agreement for Vietnam so that we can debate it in this Parliament and judge whether the Government are performing as they should be?