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HANSARDJapan Free Trade AgreementI can assure the hon. Gentleman that there are very strong climate change commitments in our agreement with Japan.14 Sept 2020HANSARDJapan Free Trade AgreementAfter the right hon. Lady’s congratulations to me on securing this important deal, it is perhaps a bit churlish of me to point out that she did not vote for the original EU-Japan…14 Sept 2020HANSARDJapan Free Trade AgreementI am not quite clear what the hon. Gentleman’s question was—it seemed to be more of an accusation—but, as I have said, the subsidy clauses in the deal are standard FTA clauses.…14 Sept 2020HANSARDJapan Free Trade AgreementThere are huge benefits to the economy of north-east Wales, whether in digital and data, agriculture such as Welsh lamb, or areas such as manufacturing, where we have reduced the…14 Sept 2020HANSARDJapan Free Trade AgreementWe are in active negotiations with the United States, and one of the things I have been very clear about is that we need to see those unfair section 232 tariffs on our steel…14 Sept 2020HANSARDJapan Free Trade AgreementWe absolutely can expect an increase. As I said, British beef has only just been allowed back into the Japanese market, and we are now going to see significant tariff reductions.…14 Sept 2020HANSARDJapan Free Trade AgreementThere are two benefits for fisheries from this deal. First, we are going to see a reduction in tariffs on all kinds of fish, be it mackerel, cod or salmon. Secondly, my hon.…14 Sept 2020HANSARDJapan Free Trade AgreementWe have already made significant progress, achieving agreement in principle; we are working on the legal scrubbing, and I will bringing this back to Parliament very soon.14 Sept 2020HANSARDJapan Free Trade AgreementMy right hon. Friend is right about the investment in both countries. This deal seeks to deepen that economic relationship, in services, in manufacturing and, of course, in…14 Sept 2020HANSARDJapan Free Trade AgreementI have recently visited Hitachi and Nissan, both of which are pleased with the progress we have made in the Japan deal. Of course, like all of us, they want a deal with the EU,…14 Sept 2020HANSARDJapan Free Trade AgreementMy right hon. Friend is right on that, and one important aspect of this deal and our relationship with Japan is that it is a leading free-enterprise democracy. We need to be…14 Sept 2020HANSARDJapan Free Trade AgreementI am pleased that the right hon. Gentleman appreciates the new listing of Orkney beef, Orkney lamb and Orkney Scottish Islands cheddar, and I think we also have a Shetland…14 Sept 2020HANSARDJapan Free Trade AgreementI am sorry to hear the right hon. Gentleman denigrate foodstuffs from his own constituency. [Hon. Members: “Wool!”] I am sorry but I did not hear him. We are still in the legal…14 Sept 2020HANSARDJapan Free Trade AgreementI am delighted to announce that last Friday we reached agreement in principle on a free trade deal with Japan. The UK-Japan comprehensive economic partnership agreement is a major…14 Sept 2020HANSARDJapan Free Trade AgreementWe are very committed to behaving fairly in all our dealings, but, as I made clear earlier, what the EU is asking for is not a standard FTA clause, but for the EU state aid regime…14 Sept 2020HANSARDJapan Free Trade AgreementI do not think that £30 billion is to be sniffed at in terms of our trade with Japan. The hon. Lady must look to the future when what we will see is the vast majority of global…14 Sept 2020HANSARDJapan Free Trade AgreementI will pass that call on to my colleague, the Defence Secretary. My hon. Friend is absolutely right about the central importance of TPP, not just as a huge economic opportunity…14 Sept 2020HANSARDJapan Free Trade AgreementMr Speaker, I think some hon. Members have got the wrong title of today’s statement. They seem to think that it is about the EU referendum, which I believe happened three years…14 Sept 2020HANSARDJapan Free Trade AgreementMy hon. Friend makes a very important point. We were previously being told that we would not get a deal with Japan, or we would not get a better deal than the EU had got with…14 Sept 2020HANSARDJapan Free Trade AgreementI certainly can. This deal goes beyond the deal the EU had agreed both in terms of UK business people being able to go to Japan and in terms of Japanese business people being able…14 Sept 2020