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HANSARDJapan Free Trade AgreementMy hon. Friend certainly has a wide array of excellent Stiltons in her constituency. What we have done through this agreement is protect our access to low tariffs for Stilton, and…14 Sept 2020HANSARDJapan Free Trade AgreementOf course, Lord Frost is negotiating the EU deal, and I know that one of his key areas is making sure we get good access for our agricultural products to the EU market. However, I…14 Sept 2020HANSARDJapan Free Trade AgreementI thank my hon. Friend for his question. I know that the Minister for Trade Policy, recently had a webinar with businesses from the Black Country, but of course, as we approach 1…14 Sept 2020HANSARDJapan Free Trade AgreementI am very pleased to hear the hon. Member’s tribute to our great Prime Minister, Mrs Thatcher. That is a first from him, and I hope it is the first of many. The answer is that we…14 Sept 2020HANSARDJapan Free Trade AgreementMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. This deal has benefits and opportunities for all of the UK. It is a central part of levelling up our country, ensuring that every region and…14 Sept 2020HANSARDJapan Free Trade AgreementThe deal will, in essence, underwrite digital and data flows between the UK and Japan, so there will be no requirements such as data localisation, and we will uphold the…14 Sept 2020HANSARDJapan Free Trade AgreementI find it extraordinary, when I am appearing in front of the House to update it, for the hon. Gentleman to complain that I have not given the next update. I am here because every…14 Sept 2020HANSARDJapan Free Trade AgreementBritish beef and lamb were let back into the Japanese market in 2019. In this deal, we have achieved significant tariff reductions on beef and more protection of geographic…14 Sept 2020HANSARDJapan Free Trade AgreementMy hon. Friend is right: a number of products in Cornwall—whether the Cornish pasty, west country farmhouse cheddar or clotted cream—will benefit from this deal through not only…14 Sept 2020HANSARDJapan Free Trade AgreementThat was a typically upbeat question from the hon. Gentleman. It is not true that our deal with the United States is not progressing; on the contrary, we are in the middle of a…14 Sept 2020HANSARDJapan Free Trade AgreementWe have achieved improvements in areas such as transportation services as well as financial services in the trade deal. We have also improved professional and business mobility,…14 Sept 2020HANSARDJapan Free Trade AgreementI urge the hon. Lady to look beyond the EU: 90% of global growth is coming from beyond the EU. Both Japan and the wider Pacific region, which is a fast-growing area, are vital for…14 Sept 2020HANSARDJapan Free Trade AgreementI am committed to making sure that we have independently audited analysis of the deal that we complete, but the hon. Lady has highlighted a hypothetical situation. We are now in a…14 Sept 2020HANSARDJapan Free Trade AgreementI understand that the deal will go to both Parliaments at the same time—it will go to the Japanese Diet at the same time as it goes to the International Trade Committee of this…14 Sept 2020HANSARDJapan Free Trade AgreementOnce we have the fully legally scrubbed deal, it will go to the International Trade Committee on a confidential basis for that Committee to analyse it. We will also undertake…14 Sept 2020HANSARDJapan Free Trade AgreementI am pleased to hear the hon. Gentleman welcoming the increased protection for Stornoway black pudding in the Japan market. He will note that a number of other indicators have…14 Sept 2020HANSARDJapan Free Trade AgreementWe are the first potential accession country that has had a meeting with all 11 chief negotiators. We will now go into separate discussions with those countries to prepare our…14 Sept 2020HANSARDJapan Free Trade AgreementOnly the SNP could say that £15 billion of extra trade is insignificant, but this Japan deal is not just important economically in itself; it is important, as the hon. Gentleman…14 Sept 2020HANSARDJapan Free Trade AgreementI thank my hon. Friend for his question. I am looking forward to visiting Davidstow, which is one of the major cheese exporters from the United Kingdom, this Friday. The answer is…14 Sept 2020HANSARDJapan Free Trade AgreementThe deal with Japan has a dedicated SME chapter, which is all about reducing the red tape that SMEs face, making it easier for UK and Japanese SMEs to understand each other’s…14 Sept 2020