Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Douglas Alexander and Yuan Yang

Thursday 5th September 2024 Commons Chamber

[Mr Alexander]

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his kind words of welcome both to this House and to the Dispatch Box. I hope that we will be able to exchange in exactly this kind of constructive dialogue in the months and years ahead. Clearly, we inherited a number of open negotiating mandates from the previous Government—not least in relation to the Gulf Co-operation Council and to India—and we are carefully reviewing those mandates, but we have already been clear that, as well as resetting the relationship with the European Union, we are keen to pursue essentially a twin-track strategy, whereby we take forward the work in relation to those free trade agreements.

[Yuan Yang (Earley and Woodley) (Lab)]

7. What steps he is taking to attract inward investment.