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HANSARDExport Opportunities: International MarketsThe hon. Gentleman is passionate about seeing ferry services restored from Scottish ports to mainland Europe, and he is absolutely right. Although it is very much a devolved…16 Jun 2022HANSARDExport Opportunities: International MarketsOur export strategy and export support service have cross-Whitehall support. The “Made in the UK, Sold to the World” campaign will help to reach more than 67 million consumers,…16 Jun 2022HANSARDExports to European MarketsI will take away the hon. Gentleman’s request and discuss it with colleagues.16 Jun 2022HANSARDUK Food Exports: PromotionLet me reassure my right hon. Friend that the grand fromage in No. 10 Downing Street—[Hon. Members: “Groan!”] It was certainly a cheesy line. The Prime Minister has made it…16 Jun 2022HANSARDUK Food Exports: PromotionThe Department works with the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board to promote cheese exports in the middle east and China. We have dedicated cheese stands at trade shows…16 Jun 2022HANSARDUK’s Green Industries: Export OpportunitiesIf there is such great export potential, I am surprised that the member of the Scottish Government who, let us not say has responsibility for exports, because we have been there…16 Jun 2022HANSARDUK’s Green Industries: Export OpportunitiesI am planning a trip to Scotland in the very near future to have the very conversations that the hon. Lady mentions. The Department works closely with the Scottish Government.…16 Jun 2022HANSARDUK’s Green Industries: Export OpportunitiesThe Government will continue to use the free trade agreements to liberalise and encourage green investment. We lead outward-bound trade visits. We are constantly seeking…16 Jun 2022HANSARDUK’s Green Industries: Export OpportunitiesOur clean growth programme launched during COP26 has boosted support for green exporters, including a new clean growth faculty in our Export Academy, while UK Export Finance has…16 Jun 2022HANSARDTransgender Conversion TherapyI thank my hon. Friend for asking for clarification. It is certainly my intention that the draft Bill, which is expected to be narrow in scope, clearly setting out what is and is…13 Jun 2022HANSARDTransgender Conversion TherapyIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Mundell. I thank the petitioner for securing the debate and the 145,000 people who signed the petition. On a personal note, I…13 Jun 2022HANSARDTransgender Conversion TherapyI thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. I know he spends a lot of time on this issue, and we are probably of a similar mindset about where we want to get to. I am…13 Jun 2022HANSARDTransgender Conversion TherapyA conversion practice is clearly defined as where a person has the predetermined objective of taking someone away from being trans and pushing them towards not being trans. Being…13 Jun 2022HANSARDPrime Minister’s Trade Envoy ProgrammeThe Prime Minister has today made three new appointments to his trade envoy programme. The appointments are: My right hon. Friend the Member for Basingstoke (Maria Miller) has…26 May 2022HANSARDLegal Recognition of Non-binary Gender IdentitiesThe hon. Lady seeks to tempt me down a particular path, but the only view I have on that is the view of Her Majesty’s Government, which is that the Bill will proceed without the…23 May 2022HANSARDLegal Recognition of Non-binary Gender IdentitiesI stand corrected. The Government have no plans to change the Gender Recognition Act, and nor do we have an appetite to change the Equality Act 2010. The provisions in those Acts…23 May 2022HANSARDLegal Recognition of Non-binary Gender IdentitiesAll converts to equal marriage should be welcomed. My hon. Friend the Member for East Worthing and Shoreham (Tim Loughton) and I sparred over the debate on equal marriage. Now I…23 May 2022HANSARDLegal Recognition of Non-binary Gender IdentitiesI am not trying to give my hon. Friend a different answer; I am trying not to give him the wrong answer, so what I will do is this. I think the officials have a very clear…23 May 2022HANSARDLegal Recognition of Non-binary Gender IdentitiesAgain, I am going to have to stray into areas for which I do not necessarily have the detail, because the clinical operation of clinics is obviously a matter for the NHS. My…23 May 2022HANSARDLegal Recognition of Non-binary Gender IdentitiesThat may well be true, but I urge my hon. Friend to take it up with the Secretary of State. This is a matter for the NHS; it is not a matter for me, and at the moment the NHS is…23 May 2022