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HANSARD Australia and New Zealand Trade DealsExactly. Australia is a deep friend of ours. I spent hours outside the Australian embassy for the last elections, canvassing and campaigning for the Australian Labour party, which…14 Nov 2022HANSARD Australia and New Zealand Trade DealsYou have!14 Nov 2022HANSARDChemical Weapons Investigation: Northern Iraq17. If his Department will refer allegations of the use of chemical weapons by Turkey in northern Iraq to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons for…08 Nov 2022HANSARD Papers Relating to the Home SecretaryIs not the reason that we have to ask for these papers to be laid before the House and put in the public domain that, time and again, those on the Government Benches have shown…08 Nov 2022HANSARDDraft Inter-American Investment Corporation (Immunities and Privileges) Order 2022I am interested in the idea of giving specific immunities to staff members of the institution and how that will affect our relationship with China in particular, given that in…08 Nov 2022HANSARDChemical Weapons Investigation: Northern IraqSezgin Tarikulu—the Turkish MP to whom my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Riverside (Kim Johnson) has referred—said: “I watched the footage of the alleged chemical weapons.…08 Nov 2022HANSARD Private Rented Sector White PaperWill the Minister give way on the legal question?03 Nov 2022HANSARD Private Rented Sector White PaperI am very pleased with the contributions we have had today. I again thank the co-chair of the APPG, the hon. Member for Dover (Mrs Elphicke), and we heard good responses from my…03 Nov 2022HANSARD Private Rented Sector White PaperDoes the Minister not recognise that the lack of legal aid is a huge problem for people in the private rented sector? In the last Session, I introduced a Bill that would have cost…03 Nov 2022HANSARD Private Rented Sector White Paper[R] I beg to move, That this House has considered the White Paper A fairer private rented sector. I thank my co-chair of the all-party group on renters and rental reform, the hon.…03 Nov 2022HANSARDTrade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill (Fourth sitting)We heard from the Minister this morning that potential accession to the CPTPP will not replace this agreement but be additional to it. Therefore, British businesses will have to…18 Oct 2022HANSARDTrade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill (Fourth sitting)Is there not also a danger that an international company could choose which of its subsidiaries a bid should come from? Rather than choosing the British company and channelling…18 Oct 2022HANSARDTrade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill (Fourth sitting)Is not this another worrying sign that the trade deals and the Bill often sell British businesses short? British businesses are being deprived of rights that they currently have.…18 Oct 2022HANSARDTrade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill (Fourth sitting)rose—18 Oct 2022HANSARDTrade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill (Fourth sitting)The Minister is quite right to mention that those two systems are different. Norway operates a dualist system for international treaty agreements in the same way that we do. It…18 Oct 2022HANSARDTrade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill (Third sitting)I think that is the case here. These amendments, particularly amendments 2, 20 and 22, which relate to the devolved Administrations, provide a failsafe for the devolved…18 Oct 2022HANSARDTrade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill (Third sitting)Is not the big problem—my hon. Friend rightly pointed this out earlier, but the Minister did not really reflect on it—that we are giving away negotiating elements for future…18 Oct 2022HANSARDTrade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill (Fourth sitting)The Minister has said that the trade unions are members of trade advisory groups, but I have looked up the membership of those groups, searching for the word “union”, and there…18 Oct 2022HANSARDTrade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill (Fourth sitting)Will the hon. Gentleman give way?18 Oct 2022HANSARDTrade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill (Third sitting)I will take that in the good manner that it was meant. Thank you, Mr Pritchard. I speak to amendments 5, 7, 20 and 22 for three main reasons: first, because we heard evidence of…18 Oct 2022