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HANSARDTrade Bill (Seventh sitting)Over the past few days, I have outlined the Government’s position on our approach to clause 2 and I will not repeat that to the Committee. The general point about the continuity…25 Jun 2020HANSARDTrade Bill (Seventh sitting)I have just explained that we think that five years, not three, is the appropriate time, so we will vote against the hon. Member’s amendment if he has the audacity to push it.…25 Jun 2020HANSARDTrade Bill (Seventh sitting)No, I do not accept that. It has nothing to do with the negotiations; it is all about keeping the agreements operable. It is a matter of judgment, and our judgment is that five…25 Jun 2020HANSARDTrade Bill (Seventh sitting)I think the hon. Gentleman’s timeline—or the timeline of the hon. Member for Harrow West—may be a little incorrect. As it happens, I left the Department on 21 June 2018, which…25 Jun 2020HANSARDTrade Bill (Seventh sitting)It is a pleasure to welcome you to the Chair, Ms Cummins. I did not get the chance on Tuesday because the supergroup carried on for the entirety of the morning. Amendment 16 seeks…25 Jun 2020HANSARDTrade Bill (Eighth sitting)I have checked exactly what I said. I said, “organisations that have a major impact on public life”. I did say that it would have a major impact on jobs, but I think “public life”…25 Jun 2020HANSARDTrade Bill (Eighth sitting)Clause 5 will allow the TRA to be established as a new non-departmental public body, and schedule 4 outlines its governance arrangements. Those include detailing how TRA members…25 Jun 2020HANSARDTrade Bill (Eighth sitting)I recognise the desire of Opposition Members to ensure that our trade remedies system is impartial, objective and transparent. Those have been our guiding principles, too. That is…25 Jun 2020HANSARDTrade Bill (Eighth sitting)I start by thanking Opposition Members for tabling new clauses 12 and 13, which provide me another opportunity to stress the Government’s position on the NHS and our trade agenda.…25 Jun 2020HANSARDTrade Bill (Eighth sitting)I refer the hon. Gentleman to the scoping assessment that we published on 2 March, where that is laid out in considerable detail. Of course, it is a scoping assessment; nobody…25 Jun 2020HANSARDTrade Bill (Eighth sitting)I am surprised by the hon. Gentleman’s apparent enthusiasm for Trumpian mercantilism, thinking that because UK agriculture might gain, that would somehow mean US agriculture would…25 Jun 2020HANSARDTrade Bill (Eighth sitting)That is absolutely correct. It is a point that we have made on numerous occasions, and I am happy to make it again today. Although this Bill relates to continuity with existing…25 Jun 2020HANSARDTrade Bill (Eighth sitting)Yes.25 Jun 2020HANSARDTrade Bill (Eighth sitting)As we have heard, amendment 28 seeks to create a new role for the TRA in analysing the impact of retaliatory or rebalancing duties imposed by the Secretary of State as a result of…25 Jun 2020HANSARDTrade Bill (Eighth sitting)I would not normally intervene on the hon. Gentleman’s summation, but I think he is confusing two things: he is confusing an international trade dispute, the result of which may…25 Jun 2020HANSARDTrade Bill (Eighth sitting)It is important, as we turn to the data-sharing powers of the Bill, that the Government have a more comprehensive understanding of UK exporters so that our work to build and grow…25 Jun 2020HANSARDTrade Bill (Eighth sitting)I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. In the time she has been in the House, she has been a strong defender and advocate of her farming sector in and around Stafford. I…25 Jun 2020HANSARDTrade Bill (Eighth sitting)I turn to new clauses 9, 11 and 17. I am aware of the strength of feeling from colleagues on both sides of the Committee on this important issue. I spoke about the commitments the…25 Jun 2020HANSARDTrade Bill (Eighth sitting)New clause 15 proposes a review, as we have heard, of free trade agreements every five years after entry into force. I have already drawn the Committee’s attention to the…25 Jun 2020HANSARDTrade Bill (Eighth sitting)On new clause 21, regarding the parameters of the UK’s future relationship with the EU, the Government have made it clear that our priority is to ensure that we restore our…25 Jun 2020