All 2 Debates between Elizabeth Truss and Tonia Antoniazzi

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Debate between Elizabeth Truss and Tonia Antoniazzi
Thursday 10th June 2021

(2 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Tonia Antoniazzi Portrait Tonia Antoniazzi (Gower) (Lab)
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What recent progress she has made on negotiating new free trade agreements.

Elizabeth Truss Portrait The Secretary of State for International Trade (Elizabeth Truss)
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We have signed trade deals covering 67 countries and the European Union, we are making good progress with like-minded friends and allies such as New Zealand and Australia, and we will shortly launch negotiations to join the trans-Pacific partnership, worth £9 trillion of GDP.

Tonia Antoniazzi Portrait Tonia Antoniazzi [V]
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Penblwydd hapus, Mr Speaker. On 6 November, the Secretary of State told the National Farmers Union of Wales:

“We have no intention of ever striking a deal that doesn’t benefit farmers, but we have provided checks and balances in the form of the Trade and Agriculture Commission”.

May I ask her if the commission will have the power to tell Parliament whether her Australia deal benefits Welsh farmers, or is she breaking the promise that she made only seven months ago?

Elizabeth Truss Portrait Elizabeth Truss
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I assure the hon. Lady that the Trade and Agriculture Commission will be up and running to fully scrutinise the Australia trade deal. As set out in the Agriculture Act 2020, the TAC will look at whether FTAs

“are consistent with the maintenance of UK levels of statutory protection”

for

“animal or plant life or health…animal welfare, and…the environment.”

That is what Parliament supported in the Agriculture Act and the Trade Act 2021.

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Debate between Elizabeth Truss and Tonia Antoniazzi
Tuesday 17th April 2018

(5 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Tonia Antoniazzi Portrait Tonia Antoniazzi (Gower) (Lab)
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Six in every 1,000 people in the UK have lymphoedema. What commitment will the Government make to deliver a comprehensive and equitable strategy for NHS England and to end the postcode lottery for lymphoedema patients in the United Kingdom?

Elizabeth Truss Portrait Elizabeth Truss
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That is a question for the Secretary of State for Health, but I would point out that we are putting extra funding into the health service, including an extra £10 billion to help with nurses’ pay and to ensure that we are investing in the technologies for the future.