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HANSARD Israel and GazaThe Minister has laid great weight this afternoon on the legal and coded process that governs the export of arms, but a new international humanitarian law compliance assessment…19 Mar 2024HANSARDTrade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords]It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iain Duncan Smith). I will speak in support of new clause 1, which he tabled, as well as the…19 Mar 2024HANSARDTrade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords]The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right and I commend his contribution both to the Committee and to the report that we published on the CPTPP earlier this year. There are a number…19 Mar 2024HANSARDTrade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords]I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way and for this new clause. Was he as surprised as I was that when we asked the Secretary of State whether she would block…19 Mar 2024HANSARDTrade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords]The Minister is being characteristically generous in giving way. We obviously sought a debate under CRaG for this treaty. The Secretary of State, who is now in her place, told our…19 Mar 2024HANSARDTrade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords]My hon. Friend, who is making an excellent speech, is right to underline the point about ILO obligations. In the 2022 Queen’s Speech we were promised an updating of the Modern…19 Mar 2024HANSARDTrade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords]Not quite. I am grateful to the Minister for setting out the full history, but will he accept that the Secretary of State believed that we should have had a debate, under the CRaG…19 Mar 2024HANSARDTrade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords]rose —19 Mar 2024HANSARDTrade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords]My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Perhaps it is because we did not want to overly annoy the Canadians, but the truth is that the talks with the Canadians have broken down—at a…19 Mar 2024HANSARD Business of the HouseThe greater the scandal, the greater obligation on us to act with speed and clarity to provide remedies. Notwithstanding yesterday’s welcome news on the Horizon scandal Bill, we…14 Mar 2024HANSARDPost Office LegislationI welcome the Minister’s statement and thank him for the collegiate way in which he is working across the House to try to secure justice for those who have suffered. This is a…13 Mar 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe Secretary of State will have seen the recommendations that our Committee set out this morning for ending the circus of the Post Office administration of the redress schemes…07 Mar 2024HANSARDPost Office Board and GovernanceI am grateful to the Minister for joining us for most of the five hours of hearings yesterday, but he will know as well as I do that what we saw yesterday was complete chaos at…28 Feb 2024HANSARD Post Office Horizon: Compensation and LegislationMay I put on record my gratitude to the Minister for the speed and attention he is paying to this issue? The bottom line, however, is that redress is too slow and the offers are…26 Feb 2024HANSARD UK Accession to CPTPPI am grateful to my hon. Friend for that question. I think the Minister made the point in the Bill Committee on Tuesday that this is not necessarily an under-scrutinised treaty,…22 Feb 2024HANSARD UkraineMay I urge the Secretary of State to step up pressure on his colleagues to shut down sanctions evasion? The Business and Trade Committee recently took evidence from the National…22 Feb 2024HANSARD UK Accession to CPTPPI am grateful for the chance to make a brief statement about an excellent report that the Business and Trade Committee published on Monday, to coincide with the opening of the…22 Feb 2024HANSARD UK Accession to CPTPPThat is an excellent question. The hon. Lady may have seen a really good report produced by not our Committee, but the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee,…22 Feb 2024HANSARD UK Accession to CPTPPI am grateful to the Minister for that question and for welcoming the report. We look forward to welcoming him before the Committee at some point in the near future to talk about…22 Feb 2024HANSARD UK Accession to CPTPPThe way that we approached our analysis was to look at food standards and whether they would be diminished by our joining the treaty. The Trade and Agriculture Commission looked…22 Feb 2024