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HANSARDTrade Bill (Eighth sitting)The last Bill became an awful lot more after it was amended in the Lords, and I suspect that things are heading the same way. However, the hon. Member for South Ribble is right.…25 Jun 2020HANSARDTrade Bill (Eighth sitting)Of course my hon. Friend is right. It is not a question just about the US. It is about other countries with different food production, safety and animal welfare standards, where…25 Jun 2020HANSARDTrade Bill (Eighth sitting)That was really telling. It has taken until today for the Government to come up with a form of words to justify not supporting higher food production standards. The intervention,…25 Jun 2020HANSARDTrade Bill (Eighth sitting)That is a matter for the Minister rather than me. Perhaps it is one he will take away and respond to in time, but my hon. Friend makes a very important point. It reinforces the…25 Jun 2020HANSARDTrade Bill (Eighth sitting)Further to that point of order, Sir Graham. I add my thanks to you and your co-Chair, Ms Cummins, for your diligent and considerable efforts to ensure order during our…25 Jun 2020HANSARDTrade Bill (Eighth sitting)I beg to move amendment 28, in clause 6, page 4, line 22, at end insert “and (c) analysis of the impact of any exercise by the Secretary of State of the power under section 15 of…25 Jun 2020HANSARDTrade Bill (Seventh sitting)The point about Lord Price is that what he said has turned out not to be true; that is the reality. My hon. Friend mentions the agreements that have been concluded, but the one…25 Jun 2020HANSARDTrade Bill (Seventh sitting)My hon. Friend is developing his point extremely well. I think it is fair to remind him that it is not just Canada that puts our deal with the EU ahead of its deal with us; Japan…25 Jun 2020HANSARDTrade Bill (Seventh sitting)If the Minister cannot support a change to the five-year sunset period, why did he support it in the previous Parliament, when it was three years?25 Jun 2020HANSARDTrade Bill (Seventh sitting)I have to take the opportunity to congratulate my hon. Friend on the moment in our deliberations. The lines he just delivered cannot be improved on, and I would not wish to do so.…25 Jun 2020HANSARDTrade Bill (Seventh sitting)Sorry, it is new clause 18 that I rise to speak to. I am grateful for the correction. On 13 March 2019, an identical amendment was tabled by Baroness Fairhead in the House of…25 Jun 2020HANSARDTrade Bill (Seventh sitting)It is a pleasure to see you back in the Chair, Mrs Cummins, and we shall continue to enjoy serving under your chairmanship for another 19 minutes. I thank you for your…25 Jun 2020HANSARDTrade Bill (Eighth sitting)As with amendment 1, it is the lack of scrutiny that we are opposed to, not the creation of the Trade Remedies Authority. That is the subject of amendments 2 and 3, which are…25 Jun 2020HANSARDTrade Bill (Eighth sitting)The Minister made great play two years ago of the idea that the affirmative resolution procedure takes 30 days longer than the negative resolution procedure. However, that is not…25 Jun 2020HANSARDTrade Bill (Eighth sitting)I beg to move amendment 1, in schedule 4, page 15, leave out line 14 and insert— “(a) a member to chair it, appointed by the Secretary of State with the consent of the…25 Jun 2020HANSARDTrade Bill (Eighth sitting)I am familiar with the evidence that my hon. Friend cites. It reminded us that the Minister has previously said in meetings—I believe he has put it in writing, too—that experts on…25 Jun 2020HANSARDTrade Bill (Eighth sitting)My hon. Friend is right. We have discussed ceramics, and he has spoken in other debates about steel and how not having an international trade agreement with Turkey runs the risk,…25 Jun 2020HANSARDTrade Bill (Eighth sitting)Yes, that is absolutely right, and of course there must be a chair who balances interests in exactly the right way to do these things; in his evidence, Simon Walker said he hoped…25 Jun 2020HANSARDTrade Bill (Eighth sitting)Absolutely, Sir Graham; I do apologise. The point that I am making is that there is this request to go on the record, and the Minister indicated earlier that this was the…25 Jun 2020HANSARDTrade Bill (Eighth sitting)My hon. Friend is right, and that is what the amendment is about. It is about ensuring that, when cross-examined—presumably by the Select Committee—the chair is asked whether they…25 Jun 2020