Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Elizabeth Truss and Philip Hollobone

Tuesday 25th January 2022 Commons Chamber

[Elizabeth Truss]

I am taking a constructive approach to these negotiations. I was in Brussels yesterday meeting Maroš Šefčovič, and I do believe there is a deal to be done that helps protect peace and political stability in Northern Ireland and enables the free flow of goods between GB and Northern Ireland. Our officials are negotiating all this week, and I will be seeing Maroš Šefčovič again next week to make positive progress.

[Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering) (Con)]

I welcome the Foreign Secretary’s constructive approach to the negotiations, but two years on from Brexit, can she confirm that disputes cannot go unresolved forever and that this situation has to be brought to an end sooner rather than later?

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Elizabeth Truss and Philip Hollobone

Tuesday 26th October 2021 Commons Chamber

[Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering) (Con)]

T7. As well as funding anti-Israel terror groups in Lebanon, Gaza and Syria, Iran is systematically and aggressively advancing its nuclear weapons programme, and is now enriching uranium to 60% for the first time ever. While the west dithers, Iran enriches more uranium. Do we actually have a serious and credible plan to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon?

[Elizabeth Truss]

My hon. Friend is right: we absolutely must stop Iran securing those nuclear capabilities, and we are working closely with our allies across the world. I have chaired a meeting of the five permanent members of the Security Council to discuss this very issue.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Elizabeth Truss and Philip Hollobone

Thursday 10th June 2021 Commons Chamber

[Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering) (Con)]

What progress she has made on negotiating free trade agreements with (a) the US, (b) Canada and (c) New Zealand.

[The Secretary of State for International Trade (Elizabeth Truss)]

We are making significant progress with our free trade agreement negotiations. We have just launched a consultation on the new, improved trade agreement with Canada, we are in the final stages of our FTA with New Zealand, and we are in the midst of resolving the Airbus-Boeing dispute with the US.

[Mr Hollobone]

Does my right hon. Friend think it is right that the EU should have greater access to the UK market than our friends in New Zealand?

[Elizabeth Truss]

Next week we have the New Zealand Trade Minister, Damien O’Connor, coming to the UK, and we are working on a gold-standard agreement that will give us more access to Pacific markets at the same time as further deepening our economic relationship with a long-standing and trusted partner.