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HANSARDAnimal Welfare Standards: Imports and ExportsThis week, Ian Perks, a constituent of mine, had his entire shipment seized in France by over-zealous French officials because he missed out a single word on the export health…01 Feb 2024HANSARDHospitality Sector: Fiscal SupportThe Minister is giving a comprehensive answer to all the points raised in the debate. I re-emphasise the point that, if he is worried about the £8 billion figure that was quoted…31 Jan 2024HANSARDHospitality Sector: Fiscal SupportIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Bardell. UK hospitality is an integral part of our national economy and this debate would be incomplete if we did not…31 Jan 2024HANSARDHospitality Sector: Fiscal SupportI thank the Minister for that response; it is very helpful to get an understanding of what the costs would be around VAT. Was any modelling done of what would have happened if we…31 Jan 2024HANSARD Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords]I am sorry, but I just feel that this matter should be hammered home. The opening summary of the Trade and Agriculture Commission report on the CPTPP states: “Question 1: Does…29 Jan 2024HANSARD Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords]I would say that it is pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Harrow West (Gareth Thomas), but he is so pessimistic and full of doom and gloom that he makes me think that he is…29 Jan 2024HANSARD Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords]I could not agree with my hon. Friend more. That is exactly the reason that we have trade envoys—in his case, he goes to Thailand to enhance the relationship between Thai and UK…29 Jan 2024HANSARD Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords]The hon. Gentleman is being extremely selective about the evidence given to the Business and Trade Committee last week. When the Trade and Agriculture Commission—the statutory…29 Jan 2024HANSARD Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords]Further to the point I made earlier, does the hon. Lady not recognise that the report on the CPTPP by the Trade and Agriculture Commission, which was set up all those years ago…29 Jan 2024HANSARD Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords]As ever, my colleague on the Business and Trade Committee has steered me back on to the right path. Of course there is enormous value within the legal and financial sectors—the…29 Jan 2024HANSARD Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords]That is exactly why we put things such as the Trade and Agriculture Commission on to a statutory footing, so that it could report on these trade agreements. Its opinion is fully…29 Jan 2024HANSARD Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords]I thank my hon. Friend for allowing me to get my breath back and for the points that he made. I hope SNP Members are listening, because they could make it a hat-trick and support…29 Jan 2024HANSARD Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords]Will the hon. Lady give way?29 Jan 2024HANSARD Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords]I am delighted that my hon. Friend has made that point and I thank him for all the work that he does on the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee. He is right to raise the…29 Jan 2024HANSARD Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords]That is not empirical evidence. A forecast is not empirical fact—it is a forecast—and these are modelling exercises by their very nature. I challenge the hon. Member to give me…29 Jan 2024HANSARD Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords]Education is one of the jewels in our crown of export opportunities. When we look at what has been created by UK schools in the far east, along with universities that are now…29 Jan 2024HANSARD Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords]I refer the hon. Lady to my previous remarks on the TAC report on CPTPP. She has made a point about Australia, and it is fair to give an answer on that. None the less, the point…29 Jan 2024HANSARDDefenceI apologise for interrupting the Defence Secretary. On the shipping side of things, there has been an extraordinary reduction in confidence in that route. The only way to restore…29 Jan 2024HANSARD Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords]I will give way, probably for the last time.29 Jan 2024HANSARD Shared Rural Network ImplementationThe hon. Lady is making a good start on her speech, but there are examples of positive development across the country. In Devon, for instance, we have reconstituted Connecting…24 Jan 2024