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HANSARDEnabling Community EnergyIt is a great pleasure, as others have said, to serve under your chairmanship, Sir David. I congratulate the hon. Member for Bath (Wera Hobhouse) on securing this debate, and the…01 Jul 2021HANSARD Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific PartnershipTapadh leibh, Madam Deputy Speaker. I also thank the Secretary of State for the debate. It is good to see the right hon. Member for North Somerset (Dr Fox), the former Secretary…24 Jun 2021HANSARD Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific PartnershipThe hon. Gentleman is talking about free trade. I mentioned in my speech the damage to trade with neighbours in Ireland, for instance, but we used to trade very freely—with no…24 Jun 2021HANSARD Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific PartnershipScottish lamb.24 Jun 2021HANSARD Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific PartnershipThe right hon. Lady makes that point in her own way, and I do not want to go into it too much given that the clock is still ticking. The comprehensive and progressive agreement…24 Jun 2021HANSARD Free Trade Agreement Negotiations: AustraliaTapadh leat, Mr Speaker. Some are saying that Australia has never before had such good luck in a trade negotiation and are wondering how this would have been different had the UK…17 Jun 2021HANSARDTrade Agreements: US, Canada and New ZealandHappy birthday from Na h-Eileanan an Iar, Mr Speaker. The point of trade deals is economic growth, but as the Secretary of State well knows, the trade deals with the US, Canada…10 Jun 2021HANSARDEngagementsBrexit and Scottish independence are, indeed, very different, but referendums are much the same. In 2016, without interference, the EU respected the UK in the Brexit referendum…26 May 2021HANSARDDebate on the AddressFeasgar math, Madam Deputy Speaker. It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Cleethorpes (Martin Vickers). He is a good Tory MP, I have to say, a fine man and a member…11 May 2021HANSARDCPTPPIt is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hollobone. As I listened to you I was promising myself I would most definitely be finished by 10.22, but now I can see…21 Apr 2021HANSARDUK Exports to the US: TariffsMadainn mhath, Mr Speaker. The digital-service-tax threats from the USA show that the Biden Administration value their special relationship with big tech more than the one with…15 Apr 2021HANSARD Leaving the EU: Impact on the UKHappy St Patrick’s day, Mr Deputy Speaker. Latha Fhèill Pàdraig sona dhut. That completes the triple crown of senior languages of these islands here today. I believe that Welsh…17 Mar 2021HANSARDBusiness of the HouseThe Leader of the House will agree that democracy is very important, if not a quasi-sacred thing, and that when it is violated by the likes of Lukashenko in Ukraine, and, indeed,…04 Mar 2021HANSARDTrade Deals with ASEAN CountriesMòran taing fawr, Mr Speaker. The UK Government have removed direct access to the EU market, damaging GDP for the UK by about 4.9%, and that is the area that 47% of UK exports go…25 Feb 2021HANSARD Trade BillIt is good to have this debate, although I am afraid it is a bit too short, as I think most Members would accept. When it comes to trade deals, Parliament really needs to debate…09 Feb 2021HANSARDUK Space IndustryIt has long been known that the Hebrides have a reputation for looking beyond planet Earth upwards. I am thinking of the heavens, in fact, and the Hebrides are of course very like…04 Feb 2021HANSARD Trade BillFeasgar math, Mr Deputy Speaker, and thank you very much for calling me at this stage of the Bill. I am speaking from the island of Barra in Scotland, which has just been included…19 Jan 2021HANSARDBrazil Trade Agreement: Environmental StandardsAs we all know, Scotland opposed leaving the European Union, and leaving the European Union is going to cost the UK about 4.9% of GDP. Many are concerned that a trade deal with…14 Jan 2021HANSARDEU Trade and Co-operation Agreement: Fishing IndustryRight now, a few miles from here, there are 10 EU trawlers: eight Irish, one French and a Dutch factory trawler. All but the Dutchmen are steaming south towards the beautiful…14 Jan 2021HANSARD European Union (Future Relationship) BillFeasgar math agus tapadh leibh, Madam Deputy Speaker. I notice that the Prime Minister had some trouble earlier with “national” and “nationalist”, undoubtedly due to the better…30 Dec 2020