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HANSARDComprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific PartnershipI do not really think that gene editing was the answer to the question. The question was: what does Mr Singham mean? Perhaps I can help. I think he means that joining the CPTPP…25 Feb 2021HANSARDTrade Deals with ASEAN CountriesI listened carefully to the Secretary of State’s answer, which I find very interesting indeed. Is she not aware of the guidance that has been given by her Department to UK…25 Feb 2021HANSARDTrade Deals with ASEAN CountriesI am delighted to see that the Secretary of State is answering questions about the 2.9% of our global trade that we have with ASEAN countries, having refused to answer questions…25 Feb 2021HANSARD Trade BillAt the outset, I thank the hon. Members for Wealden (Ms Ghani) and for Huntingdon (Mr Djanogly), the right hon. Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iain Duncan Smith) and…09 Feb 2021HANSARD Trade BillI am not going to take any interventions, because my view is that we have so little time, I think it is only fair just to continue. [ Interruption. ] I have made it clear that I…09 Feb 2021HANSARD Trade BillWill the Minister give way?19 Jan 2021HANSARD Trade BillI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for what he has said, but as he and I know, the International Trade Committee was promised access to the Japan deal and to the assorted…19 Jan 2021HANSARD Trade BillI will one more time and then no more.19 Jan 2021HANSARD Trade BillDoes the hon. Gentleman remember giving any scrutiny to the roll-over deal with Egypt, given that Egypt is one of the worst human rights abusers?19 Jan 2021HANSARD Trade BillWill the Minister give way?19 Jan 2021HANSARD Trade BillI am grateful, Madam Deputy Speaker. My argument is simply that the scrutiny amendment among these amendments is perhaps the most important, because if Parliament could be allowed…19 Jan 2021HANSARD Trade BillIt is a pleasure to open this debate for the Opposition. I want to thank Members from the other place for all the work they have done on these amendments, which follows the…19 Jan 2021HANSARD Trade BillI do not think I am going to allow double-dipping; we are talking about democracy but there is no one on our side here in Parliament because we are all participating remotely. The…19 Jan 2021HANSARDUK-EU Trade and Co-operation AgreementI was not asking whether the Secretary of State was responsible; I was just thinking that, since she was in the Cabinet, she might know when the impact assessment was going to be…14 Jan 2021HANSARDUK-EU Trade and Co-operation AgreementOver the last two years, the Government have placed, as the Secretary of State tells us frequently, more than 30 new trade agreements before the House. Every single one of them,…14 Jan 2021HANSARDContinuity Trade AgreementsThese are serious matters. Cameroon has become, in the last three years, one of the most abusive, repressive and murderous regimes in the world today. We all know that that did…14 Jan 2021HANSARDContinuity Trade AgreementsIt has now been 14 days since the provisional trade agreement between the UK and Cameroon entered into force, yet Parliament has still not even seen that agreement, let alone had…14 Jan 2021HANSARD Global BritainIn the limited amount of time that I have left, I will not be taking any more interventions; let me just get to the end of my speech, because we already have only three minutes…11 Jan 2021HANSARD Global BritainI will take one more intervention and then I need to make some more progress.11 Jan 2021HANSARD Global BritainLet me thank the Secretary of State for holding this debate, albeit in the very strange circumstances we find ourselves in today. I said many months ago, when I came into this…11 Jan 2021