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Lords Chamber
Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [HL]
Report stage - Tue 16 Jan 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Johnson of Lainston (Con - Life peer) We are fully committed to ensuring that our GIs are protected in Japan; it is part of the agreements - Speech Link
2: None Free trade agreements and bilateral agreements are often subject to parliamentary approval. - Speech Link
3: Lord Hamilton of Epsom (Con - Life peer) The fact is that all trade agreements are a compromise. - Speech Link
4: None agreements with both Australia and Japan, both of which are members of the CPTPP. - Speech Link
5: Lord Foster of Bath (LD - Life peer) Why were these issues not covered when we did trade deals with Australia and Japan? - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [HL] - Tue 23 Jan 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Johnson of Lainston (Con - Life peer) I should go first in the order of debate.The Bill is a narrow one, focused on technical barriers to trade - Speech Link
2: Lord Johnson of Lainston (Con - Life peer) It builds on the free trade agreements that entered into force between the UK and Australia and New Zealand - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [HL]
Committee stage - Thu 07 Dec 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) They raised a slight concern: if there are further trade agreements where we offer equivalence of other - Speech Link
2: Lord Lansley (Con - Life peer) As we develop trade relations and as we develop free trade agreements, eliminating technical barriers - Speech Link
3: Lord Lansley (Con - Life peer) agreements into which we have entered with Australia and Japan, in both cases we anticipated that, in - Speech Link
4: Lord Johnson of Lainston (Con - Life peer) having these lengthy debates about free trade agreements? - Speech Link
5: None creative sectors and those in Japan to realise the importance of this trade and, indeed, of protecting - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [HL]
Committee stage: Minutes of Proceedings - Thu 14 Dec 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Earl of Clancarty (XB - Excepted Hereditary) New Zealand, through separate trade agreements. - Speech Link
2: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) If we have trade preference agreements, they must be protected, and we have to ensure that there is no - Speech Link
3: None We have trade agreements with most of them already. - Speech Link
4: Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab - Life peer) The UK did not include ISDS in its recent trade agreements with Australia, New Zealand and Japan, and - Speech Link
5: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) with Canada and Japan. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
UK-Canada Trade Deal: Suspension of Negotiations - Tue 30 Jan 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Offord of Garvel (Con - Life peer) billion- worth of trade per annum. - Speech Link
2: Lord Offord of Garvel (Con - Life peer) That is £18 million of trade. - Speech Link
3: Lord Offord of Garvel (Con - Life peer) As we sign those trade deals and go around with Vietnam, Indonesia, Korea and Japan, we are building - Speech Link
4: Lord Leong (Lab - Life peer) talks is a “recipe for disaster” and could delay new trade agreements. - Speech Link
5: Lord Offord of Garvel (Con - Life peer) agreements that cover services—not just goods—digital and innovation. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
UK Trade Performance - Tue 07 May 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: None Since that referendum, the UK economy has grown faster than that of Germany, Italy and Japan, and contrary - Speech Link
2: None statistics, the UK, outside the EU, became the world’s fourth biggest exporter in 2022, overtaking Japan - Speech Link
3: None They tell me about how they are coping with problems in the jobs market, as societies from Germany to Japan - Speech Link
4: Lord McNicol of West Kilbride (Lab - Life peer) UK exports have grown at a slower rate than in every other G7 country except Japan, far behind Canada - Speech Link


Select Committee
Letter from the Minister of State for Trade Policy and Minister for London, dated 23 November 2023 on follow up points from the Oral Evidence session on 15 November 2023

Correspondence Nov. 29 2023

Committee: Justice Committee (Department: Ministry of Justice)

Found: Letter from the Minister of State for Trade Policy and Minister for London, dated 23 November 2023 on


Lords Chamber
Brexit: Benefits to Economy and Society - Wed 06 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Offord of Garvel (Con - Life peer) Since the referendum, the UK economy has grown faster than those of Germany, Italy and Japan, and is - Speech Link
2: Lord Offord of Garvel (Con - Life peer) I will keep to trade. - Speech Link
3: Lord Anderson of Swansea (Lab - Life peer) My Lords, have any of these trade deals cumulatively made up for the loss of trade to the European Union - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Tue 21 Nov 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Vaizey of Didcot (Con - Life peer) The UK already has free trade agreements with most of the CPTPP members. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Lawlor (Con - Life peer) partnership and that“Japan was … keen to have us join, for geostrategic as much as for trade reasons - Speech Link
3: Lord Livingston of Parkhead (Con - Life peer) As we are doing a trade deal with countries like Australia, New Zealand and Japan, I would much prefer - Speech Link
4: Lord Udny-Lister (Con - Life peer) Trade agreements are absolutely pointless if businesses are not able to go through the door and trade - Speech Link


Select Committee
International Chamber of Commerce, techUK, Oxford University, Blavatnik School of Government, and MakeUK

Oral Evidence May. 14 2024

Inquiry: Data and digital trade
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: International Agreements Committee

Found: agreements, digital- only trade agreements, and everything else that the UK has been doing, which