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HANSARDTrade Agreements ProgrammeI pay tribute to Cumbernauld’s advanced manufacturing capability. It is estimated that the UK-India free trade agreement will boost the whole UK economy by £4.8 billion and grow…12 Jun 2025HANSARD Arms and Military Cargo Export Controls: IsraelLet me make a little progress, and then I will be open to interventions. I turn next to the actions taken by this Government in support of those statements. We have supported the…02 Jun 2025HANSARD Arms and Military Cargo Export Controls: IsraelI am acutely conscious of the time, Madam Deputy Speaker. The exclusion from the suspension decision for F-35 components should not, in principle, apply to licences for F-35…02 Jun 2025HANSARD Arms and Military Cargo Export Controls: IsraelI am keen to make a little more progress before I take further interventions. Because these are exceptional circumstances, the Government have heard requests from Members on both…02 Jun 2025HANSARD Arms and Military Cargo Export Controls: IsraelI have given way several times on that point, so I am keen to make some progress. The Government have made these judgments calmly and soberly, and will continue to do so with full…02 Jun 2025HANSARD Arms and Military Cargo Export Controls: IsraelWe make approximately 15% of the components that contribute to the F-35 programme; it is an international programme of which we are but one partner. We continue to supply the…02 Jun 2025HANSARD Arms and Military Cargo Export Controls: IsraelWe are not directly sending parts to Israel for the F-35s. We are continuing to support the global component pool of the F-35 programme for the reason that I have set out. We as a…02 Jun 2025HANSARD Arms and Military Cargo Export Controls: IsraelLet me make a little more progress, then I will be happy to take further interventions. I will turn to the specific issue of export licences. On coming into office, the Foreign…02 Jun 2025HANSARD Arms and Military Cargo Export Controls: IsraelThere are long-standing relationships of trade and economics with Israel—for instance, as I understand it, one in eight of the prescribed drugs available through the national…02 Jun 2025HANSARD Arms and Military Cargo Export Controls: IsraelLet me finish the explanation, then I will be happy to take interventions. Our exporters provide components for the F-35 aircraft to a global spares pool and the common production…02 Jun 2025HANSARD Arms and Military Cargo Export Controls: IsraelI am responding on this issue on behalf of the Government tonight, and I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Montgomeryshire and Glyndŵr (Steve Witherden) for securing this…02 Jun 2025HANSARDComprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific PartnershipOn 16 May 2025, CPTPP parties met in Jeju, Republic of Korea, in the margins of the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation Ministers Responsible for Trade conference. Those present…19 May 2025HANSARD Trade NegotiationsI thank my hon. Friend for her focus and concern, regarding both the work on online harm and the digital services tax. As I sought to reflect earlier, those remain undisturbed and…08 May 2025HANSARD Trade NegotiationsOn today of all days, I will not suggest that there should be any fetters or constraints whatsoever on this House when it comes to introducing legislation on online harm, or any…08 May 2025HANSARD Trade NegotiationsI reiterate the points that I sought to make earlier. Imports of hormone-treated beef or chlorinated chicken will remain illegal. The deal we have signed today will protect…08 May 2025HANSARD Trade NegotiationsIt would be remiss of me not to start my answer to the hon. Lady with anything other than humble congratulations on her time in the London marathon. Having run it twice, I would…08 May 2025HANSARD Trade NegotiationsI simply do not recognise the aeriated contribution that the hon. Gentleman has made. He has an important and legitimate role in representing farmers in his constituency and more…08 May 2025HANSARD Trade NegotiationsIt is hardly a surprise that a member of the Trump Administration should talk about America first. I can assure the hon. Gentleman that the north star by which we have negotiated…08 May 2025HANSARD Trade NegotiationsWe have not compromised our animal welfare standards in any aspect of what we have agreed on behalf of the United Kingdom today.08 May 2025HANSARD Trade NegotiationsForgive me: I was shuffling through my papers and missed the hon. Gentleman’s final point, but I am happy to write to him. He is absolutely right, I can assure him, to recognise…08 May 2025