Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Daniel Zeichner and Elizabeth Truss

Thursday 15th April 2021 Commons Chamber

[Elizabeth Truss]

I would be delighted to engage with the local Indian community in Ipswich and across the country, because I think we have huge opportunities to expand our trade with India. It is currently £24 billion, but it could be so much more. We are currently working on an enhanced trade partnership with the Indian Government and I look forward to engaging with my hon. Friend and the people of Ipswich to make it happen.

[Daniel Zeichner (Cambridge) (Lab)]

May I ask the Secretary of State if she understands the frustration of the Cheshire Cheese Company, whose co-founder, I understand, spoke to officials in her Department before Easter about the problems that they are facing exporting to the EU? Extraordinarily, instead of being given advice on how to fix the problem, they were advised to look for other emerging markets. Given the Secretary of State’s infamous passion for cheese, will she tell us whether her departmental officials could not have done better?

[Elizabeth Truss]

I am very happy to help the cheese company export not just to the EU, but around the world.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Daniel Zeichner and Elizabeth Truss

Thursday 14th January 2021 Commons Chamber

[Daniel Zeichner (Cambridge) (Lab)[V]]

Data is the lifeblood of modern economies, but the data provisions in the UK-Japan deal, which Ministers have been boasting about this morning, make it less likely that the EU will grant us the vital adequacy agreement that our researchers and businesses need in just a few months. So can Ministers explain how these contradictions are to be resolved?

[Elizabeth Truss]

I observe to the hon. Gentleman that Japan has data adequacy with the EU and it is also part of the comprehensive and progressive trans-Pacific partnership, which has a strong digital and data chapter. So it is absolutely reasonable that we should be able to have both and be successful.