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HANSARDTrade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill (Third sitting)Don’t worry—I will come to construction.18 Oct 2022HANSARDTrade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill (Third sitting)I intend to come to some of the tensions between competition and “buy British” in our next group of amendments, but let me give the Minister the example of Essex County Council.…18 Oct 2022HANSARDTrade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill (Third sitting)I am grateful to the Minister for his reply. Although I am not 100% convinced by the argument that he advanced, this is a probing amendment and we will reflect on what he said. We…18 Oct 2022HANSARDTrade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill (Third sitting)The Minister is describing an interesting context—the idea of the CPTPP sitting alongside the Australia and New Zealand free trade deals. Specifically on the issue of contracts of…18 Oct 2022HANSARDTrade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill (Third sitting)Will the Minister explain how the provisions in the procurement chapter of the Australia and New Zealand FTAs sit with the Procurement Bill, which is going through Parliament at…18 Oct 2022HANSARDTrade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill (Third sitting)To be fair to the Minister, he sort of touched on the issue in very loose terms. Perhaps my hon. Friend may be reassured that amendment 5, which we are inching towards, would…18 Oct 2022HANSARDTrade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill (Third sitting)I appreciate that Conservative Members will be focusing on other mistakes that the Prime Minister has made, but my hon. Friend is absolutely right. One wonders whether, in the…18 Oct 2022HANSARDTrade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill (Third sitting)The hon. Member for Airdrie and Shotts rightly raises an important issue about the linkages between the Procurement Bill and the measures in this Bill. One wonders why Ministers…18 Oct 2022HANSARDTrade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill (Third sitting)I entirely understand and agree with the hon. Lady’s concerns about how Scottish farmers have been treated. They must rightly be very angry with the Government. Does she accept…18 Oct 2022HANSARDTrade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill (Fourth sitting)We know that Conservative Ministers have become enthusiasts for red tape—that was the reality of the deal the previous Prime Minister negotiated with the European Union. I gently…18 Oct 2022HANSARDTrade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill (Third sitting)In referencing Manchester, my hon. Friend has stimulated a thought in my head that, if I am lucky enough to catch Mr Pritchard’s eye, I hope to return to: the issue of levelling…18 Oct 2022HANSARDTrade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill (Third sitting)Does my hon. Friend agree that one reason why the Minister ought to be tempted by amendment 5 and amendment 22 is that they would give Essex County Council—which is currently…18 Oct 2022HANSARDTrade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill (Third sitting)Given the comments that my hon. Friend has just made, perhaps the Minister will take advantage of this debate and reflect on whether his ministerial colleague, the right hon.…18 Oct 2022HANSARDTrade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill (Third sitting)Surely one of the other benefits of consultation is that it might start the Welsh Government and the Department for International Trade thinking about how, together, they might…18 Oct 2022HANSARDTrade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill (Third sitting)The beauty of having a consultation before regulations are introduced as well as an impact assessment once regulations are about to be brought forward is that we can try to…18 Oct 2022HANSARDTrade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill (Fourth sitting)The argument I am making is that Professor Sanchez-Graells highlighted the risk of a chilling effect on the progress of the Elizabeth line had the Australian and New Zealand…18 Oct 2022HANSARDTrade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill (Fourth sitting)This is relevant to clause 5. If we had consulted better with firms across the UK that benefited from the supply chain of the Elizabeth line, they might have been able to…18 Oct 2022HANSARDTrade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill (Fourth sitting)How many of those meetings have focused purely on procurement?18 Oct 2022HANSARDTrade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill (Fourth sitting)To be clear, is the Minister saying that if the TUC, as the representative of the trade union movement, is not on any of the relevant trade advisory committees, he is committing…18 Oct 2022HANSARDTrade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill (Fourth sitting)Why not?18 Oct 2022