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Commons Chamber
Situation in the Red Sea - Mon 26 Feb 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) the fourth such operation to degrade the Houthi capabilities that are being used to threaten global trade - Speech Link
2: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) are impacted by this—the entire world, but perhaps China in particular—do speak up. - Speech Link
3: Greg Smith (Con - Buckingham) In conjunction with the Treasury and the Department for Business and Trade, has my right hon. - Speech Link


Scottish Parliament Debate - Committee
Review of the EU-UK Trade and Co-operation Agreement - Thu 14 Mar 2024

Mentions:
1: None those barriers to trade. - Speech Link
2: None with other like-minded partners to help that transition to being less dependent on countries such as China - Speech Link
3: None There is a possibility for the UK to return to some of those missions, albeit in a different role because - Speech Link


Select Committee
Fourth Special Report - Tilting horizons: the Integrated Review and the Indo-Pacific – Government Response to the Committee’s Eighth Report: Fourth Special Report

Special Report Mar. 22 2024

Committee: Foreign Affairs Committee (Department: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)

Found: including: doubling the number of British High Commissions across the Pacific Island Countries, opening UK Missions


Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Department for Business and Trade

Nov. 09 2023

Source Page: UK dairy industry to be boosted by new export programme
Document: UK dairy industry to be boosted by new export programme (webpage)

Found: Programme includes UK Dairy Showcase, education sessions and trade missions and follows £1m funding committed


Grand Committee
Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 - Tue 19 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) The instrument contains trade measures developed in close co-ordination with our G7 allies. - Speech Link
2: None More than £20 billion-worth of UK-Russia trade is now under sanction, resulting in a 99.64% fall in Russian - Speech Link
3: Baroness Smith of Newnham (LD - Life peer) What opportunities are there to work with large countries, such as China and India, which are neither - Speech Link
4: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) Of course, we understand that, but the diamond trade is not huge in terms of the number of countries - Speech Link
5: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) We are expanding the network of sanctions specialists in UK diplomatic missions. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
UK Trade Performance - Wed 01 May 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Gareth Thomas (LAB - Harrow West) missions to win vital new orders for British business.Farmers and Conservative members think that the - Speech Link
2: Julie Marson (Con - Hertford and Stortford) had the third-highest foreign direct investment over the past years; we are behind only the US and China - Speech Link
3: Jonathan Gullis (Con - Stoke-on-Trent North) I thank her personally for the time she took yesterday to meet Johnson Tiles, Churchill China and Steelite—great - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords]
Report stage - Tue 19 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Iain Duncan Smith (Con - Chingford and Woodford Green) review, China is the only economy that has applied to join. - Speech Link
2: Iain Duncan Smith (Con - Chingford and Woodford Green) China applied to join the CPTPP on 16 September 2021, and is next in line. - Speech Link
3: None Ministers have cut funding for trade missions led by business groups themselves, and cut funding for - Speech Link
4: Greg Hands (Con - Chelsea and Fulham) In debates in this House over some years now, he has made clear his views on trade with China, has gained - Speech Link
5: Greg Hands (Con - Chelsea and Fulham) with China, and to other right hon. and hon. - Speech Link


Scottish Government Publication (FOI/EIR release)
EU Directorate

Mar. 13 2024

Source Page: Scotland’s International Network Reporting: FOI Release
Document: Document 3 (PDF)

Found: Monitoring and Reporting 2020 -21 Overview report and office reports Report Page Overview Report 2 China


Select Committee
Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office
MUL0014 - International relations within the multilateral system

Written Evidence Apr. 16 2024

Inquiry: International relations within the multilateral system
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Foreign Affairs Committee (Department: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)

Found: This allows China to operate as a counterweight to traditional Western powers and China has produced


Select Committee
First Special Report - Promoting Scotland Internationally: Government Response to the Committee’s Eighth Report of Session 2022–23

Special Report Nov. 30 2023

Committee: Scottish Affairs Committee (Department: Scotland Office)

Found: (Paragraph 18) The UK Government recognises the importance of holding events at our overseas Missions