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HANSARDAfrica: Trade NegotiationsI thank my hon. Friend for his work as chair of the all-party group on Ethiopia and Djibouti. The UK has signed continuity trade agreements that secure our long-term trading…12 May 2020HANSARD Women in the Commonwealth: Trade and InvestmentHansard will show the record of expressing opposition to trade liberalisation. People will be able to see that for themselves. As I say, the failure to support trade agreements…11 Mar 2020HANSARD Women in the Commonwealth: Trade and InvestmentIt is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hosie, and to have heard powerful speeches from Members across the House. While only one in five exporting businesses…11 Mar 2020HANSARD Women in the Commonwealth: Trade and InvestmentTo impose such standards on them would effectively mean that the women—business people and others—in those countries would be barred from access to our markets by what comes…11 Mar 2020HANSARDForeign Direct Investment: Film and TelevisionSmoothing access to the US through an FTA will help Bolton, and having such an excellent and film-ready advocate for Bolton as my hon. Friend, I look forward to him appearing,…05 Mar 2020HANSARDTrade StrategyUK exports are at a record high, with the latest figures showing exports of £689 billion—up 5% on 2018. We are committed to doing even more, building on the measures in our export…05 Mar 2020HANSARDTrade StrategyThe hon. Gentleman is quite right to highlight the issue of trade’s role in parts of the world where human rights are being breached. Right across the Department, we seek to…05 Mar 2020HANSARDGoods ExportsUK goods exports were up 6.4% last year to a record £372 billion. Interestingly, the three fastest-growing UK goods exports in 2019 were: one, unspecified goods; two, works of…05 Mar 2020HANSARDGoods ExportsIn 2019, goods exports to the EU were down by 0.9% to £170.6 billion, while goods exports to the non-EU were up by 13.6% to £201.5 billion.05 Mar 2020HANSARDForeign Direct InvestmentWinning further foreign direct investment is crucial to the delivery of rising living standards and the levelling up of left-behind communities up and down the land. Companies…05 Mar 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am grateful to my right hon. Friend the Member for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale (David Mundell), who sets an example—not least to the party over there, the SNP—in…05 Mar 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy right hon. Friend is correct to highlight the importance of Heathrow and transatlantic links with the US and beyond—not only for exports, but for foreign direct investment. I…05 Mar 2020HANSARDTrade StrategyWe could look at Japan, or we could look at Mercosur, which took 20 years of negotiation. Some say that the UK shorn of the heft of the EU will be less able to do deals. There are…05 Mar 2020HANSARDForeign Direct InvestmentI thank my hon. Friend for that question, because FDI is so important to the UK. Foreign-owned firms represent only 1% of businesses, yet they contribute 22% of economic output…05 Mar 2020HANSARDForeign Direct InvestmentI am grateful to my hon. Friend for that. I think the people of London want a Mayor who makes things happen, who is a champion of business and who recognises that, for all the…05 Mar 2020HANSARDForeign Direct InvestmentI thank my hon. Friend for his question, on which he is right. He is constantly championing the interests of his area, not least because of the need for regeneration. Free ports…05 Mar 2020HANSARDForeign Direct InvestmentI thank the hon. Lady for her question. The consultation closes tonight and we are determined to get the right balance. We are clear that we are going to have a tariff regime that…05 Mar 2020HANSARDForeign Direct InvestmentI would have hoped that, after sufficient time in the House, the hon. Lady might have understood how a consultation worked. The consultation closes today, and I cannot comment on…05 Mar 2020HANSARDForeign Direct InvestmentAs I said in an earlier answer, I was pleased to meet Northern Ireland representatives in No. 10 Downing Street yesterday. When I visited Belfast last year, I learnt more about…05 Mar 2020HANSARDForeign Direct InvestmentI thank my hon. Friend, who characteristically puts her finger on an important point. Services have too often not had sufficient focus in trade agreements. We are very much…05 Mar 2020