Written Evidence May. 07 2024
Inquiry: Export-led growthFound: To capitalise on our strengths, the government must ensure that ongoing and future trade agreements
Mentions:
1: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) confidence for businesses and individuals in their disputes, reduce costs, encourage international trade - Speech Link
2: Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd (XB - Life peer) for what he has done to ensure that London stays at the forefront in the highly competitive world of dispute - Speech Link
Found: 1, line 19, leave out from “subject to” to the end of the subsection and insert “approval by resolution
Found: 1, line 19, leave out from “subject to” to the end of the subsection and insert “approval by resolution
Mentions:
1: Iain Duncan Smith (Con - Chingford and Woodford Green) That is why the new clause is needed.Under UK trade policy, it is not unusual for bilateral trade agreements - Speech Link
2: Dominic Raab (Con - Esher and Walton) On investor-state dispute resolution, he is absolutely right that we must not give way to the naysayers - Speech Link
Found: 1, line 19, leave out from “subject to” to the end of the subsection and insert “approval by resolution
Mentions:
1: Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town (Lab - Life peer) might be challenged via the state-to-state dispute mechanism. - Speech Link
2: Lord Lansley (Con - Life peer) , open trade, a rules-based trading system and not simply to bilateral agreements but to plurilateral - Speech Link
3: Lord Anderson of Swansea (Lab - Life peer) Yet such bilateral or plurilateral agreements should be put in perspective: the best trade agreement - Speech Link
4: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con - Life peer) Finally, what is the position on the dispute-resolution mechanism that is available under the agreement - Speech Link
5: Lord Goldsmith (Lab - Life peer) debate on Rwanda—and everyone knows what result that reached—but we have not had a response to the resolution - Speech Link
Correspondence Jan. 10 2024
Committee: International Agreements CommitteeFound: Admiralty Building London SW1A 2 BL The Rt Hon Lord Peter Goldsmith KC Chair, International Agreements
Mentions:
1: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Lab - Slough) That includes advocating for the integration of binding labour standards in trade agreements and ensuring - Speech Link
2: Greg Hands (Con - Chelsea and Fulham) We are also having a debate on where CPTPP interacts with other trade agreements, but quite often, if - Speech Link
3: Greg Hands (Con - Chelsea and Fulham) We have been through this many times in different Trade Bills and different free trade agreements. - Speech Link
4: Anna McMorrin (Lab - Cardiff North) The sustainability of this puts into question all our trade agreements in CPTPP. - Speech Link
5: Greg Hands (Con - Chelsea and Fulham) We know that free trade agreements have the potential to contribute to preference erosion. - Speech Link
Written Evidence May. 08 2024
Inquiry: Net zero and tradeFound: NZT0002 - Net zero and trade University of Manchester, and Queen Mary University of London Written Evidence