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HANSARDUK-India Free Trade AgreementI thought my hon. Friend might be about to talk about ceramics. He regularly speaks up—privately to me and publicly in the House and elsewhere—on behalf of his constituents, and…09 Feb 2026HANSARDUK-India Free Trade Agreementrose —09 Feb 2026HANSARDUK-India Free Trade AgreementI wonder if I could talk through the hon. Member for Arundel and South Downs (Andrew Griffith) to the right hon. Member for New Forest East (Sir Julian Lewis): our export control…09 Feb 2026HANSARDUK-India Free Trade AgreementI am reluctant to give way, because I have only another four minutes. The hon. Member is on the Select Committee, so he will soon be able to ask me as many questions as he wants.09 Feb 2026HANSARDUK-India Free Trade AgreementI will not, as I have only two minutes. The Chair of the Select Committee made lots of good points. He referred to the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 and said that…09 Feb 2026HANSARDUK-India Free Trade Agreementrose —09 Feb 2026HANSARDUK-India Free Trade AgreementI am keen not to give way again, because there is not much time and I have to answer all the questions that I have already been asked. Turning to legal services, of course we…09 Feb 2026HANSARDUK-India Free Trade AgreementI will give way to the hon. Member, because I can never resist him. We used to be on a Select Committee together.09 Feb 2026HANSARDUK-India Free Trade AgreementIf the hon. Member is in favour of collective bargaining, surely he is in favour of Scotland doing its collective bargaining within the United Kingdom.09 Feb 2026HANSARDUK-India Free Trade AgreementOh dear. I will give way, but I think I know what my hon. Friend is going to say.09 Feb 2026HANSARDUK-India Free Trade AgreementI was not going to make the point that the hon. Member went on to make—that his Government signed up to lots of similar arrangements—but I was going to respond to the intervention…09 Feb 2026HANSARDUK-India Free Trade AgreementWe are all joking about it, but this is a serious matter. The centre of the point is that whatever the tariffs may do, companies can only sell products in the UK that meet our…09 Feb 2026HANSARDUK-India Free Trade AgreementI will not, if the hon. Member does not mind. A lot of that toolkit lies outside trade. It lies with the human rights monitoring that our high commission in India does regularly.…09 Feb 2026HANSARDUK-India Free Trade Agreementrose —09 Feb 2026HANSARDUK-India Free Trade AgreementI will talk about human rights in a moment, but if the hon. Gentleman can come up with a better way of finding a 0.14% increase in GDP, I would be very happy to hear it. Frankly,…09 Feb 2026HANSARDUK-India Free Trade AgreementI will try to keep up as we are going along, if that is okay. On dairy, I understand the point the hon. Gentleman is making; it has been made to me before and was also made in…09 Feb 2026HANSARDUK-India Free Trade AgreementBy leave of the House, Madam Deputy Speaker, I will respond to the debate. I know that you were once in this job, so if I get anything wrong, please feel free to intervene and…09 Feb 2026HANSARDUK-India Free Trade AgreementSometimes! Perhaps a tee-slightly-er or a tee-occasionally-er, but not total. [Interruption.] Yes, only in the early morning. Well, I got that completely wrong. Anyway, I think…09 Feb 2026HANSARDUK-India Free Trade AgreementI believe that the hon. Gentleman is a is a teetotaller. Is that right?09 Feb 2026HANSARDUK-India Free Trade AgreementAnd Welsh.09 Feb 2026