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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 23 Jun 2020
Trade Bill (Sixth sitting)

"Thank you, Sir Graham. Very briefly, we have heard from Members across the Committee about our constituents’ concerns, and those of last week’s witnesses. We have only to think back to some of the extraordinary campaigns by Jamie Oliver, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and others, who highlighted some of the terrible practices …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 18 Jun 2020
Trade Bill (Fourth sitting)

"Will my hon. Friend give way?..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 18 Jun 2020
Trade Bill (Fourth sitting)

"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Graham. On the environmental amendment, so many authorities have shown leadership in recent months on adopting a zero carbon objective. At a simplistic level, it is perhaps easy perhaps to look at what that might translate to, but it is …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 18 Jun 2020
Trade Bill (Fourth sitting)

"There is a broader point here. The geography may be one thing, but there may also be a cultural issue. I am not talking about the Government, but the machinery of government and the Departments. We recently found, through the crisis—this was a real revelation to me—that many businesses in …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 18 Jun 2020
Trade Bill (Fourth sitting)

"My hon. Friend makes some powerful points, but perhaps I may add some emphasis on public health and broaden that aspect of the argument. The emphasis on lowest price is mistaken. Perhaps we saw that with small and medium-sized enterprises—or more of a medium-sized to larger business in the case …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 18 Jun 2020
Trade Bill (Fourth sitting)

"I tried to intervene a little earlier, and I thank my hon. Friend for giving way yet again. This serious, honest, and important point will probably be echoed across the room: the contract to provide food vouchers to schools over the Easter period and Whitsun was given to Edenred, which …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 16 Jun 2020
Trade Bill (First sitting)

"Q I just wanted to pick up on the Trade Remedies Authority and your views on the provisions in the Bill, the role of that body, how it is made up and how it represents the interests of various stakeholders, whether they are sectors, regions, civil liberties groups or …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 16 Jun 2020
Trade Bill (First sitting)

"Q To pick up on a point about the competitiveness of the sector, you said, quite rightly, that London is a global leader, both in market research and advertising output. Are you happy with the protection through the TRA, whether it be for intellectual property or otherwise?

Konrad Shek: …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 05 Mar 2020
Oral Answers to Questions

"The Minister has just mentioned the Department’s economic impact assessments on future trade deals with Australia, New Zealand, Japan and a CPTPP-type deal, but he will understand that a CETA-type deal—a Canada-style deal with Europe—will hit our economy by 6.2%. To what extent does he believe that the trade deals …..."
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Written Question
Imports: Occupied Territories
Monday 28th October 2019

Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)

Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to prohibit the import of goods produced in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.

Answered by Conor Burns

The Government has no plans to bring forward legislation on this subject.