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HANSARD Church of Scotland (Lord High Commissioner) BillI can assure the hon. Gentleman that we want progress to be expeditious. I shall be happy to write to him once we know the exact date on which it will be introduced in the House…04 Mar 2025HANSARD Church of Scotland (Lord High Commissioner) BillIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Ghani. I hope that I will not detain the Committee for long in dealing with the two clauses. The purpose of clause 1 is to…04 Mar 2025HANSARD High Street BusinessesIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Desmond. Before I respond to the debate on behalf of the Government, I should say that I am a proud member of the Union of…26 Feb 2025HANSARD High Street BusinessesAlong with every Member who has spoken in this debate, the Government want to support strong, thriving, mixed-use high streets that generate high footfall and high degrees of…26 Feb 2025HANSARD High Street BusinessesTime is against me. I want to address as many of the points raised today as I can, but before I do, I want to say a bit about the Government’s wider commitment to supporting our…26 Feb 2025HANSARDBusiness and TradeTo give a sense of quantum to the House, about £400 million-worth of UK steel exports go to the United States. That represents, if I recollect accurately, about 10% of UK…12 Feb 2025HANSARDBusiness and TradeTo give a sense of quantum to the House, about £400 million-worth of UK steel exports go to the United States. That represents, if I recollect accurately, about 8% of UK steel…12 Feb 2025HANSARD US Steel Import TariffsWe have seen the proclamation issued by President Trump overnight, which enforces a full return to 25% tariffs on US steel imports on 12 March 2025. The US has so far published…11 Feb 2025HANSARD US Steel Import TariffsMy hon. Friend is a doughty defender of the interests of Peterborough and of his constituents, and he is right to recognise that pride in steel making extends beyond Port Talbot,…11 Feb 2025HANSARD US Steel Import TariffsThere are plenty of opportunities for Ministers to be held accountable in relation to the dialogue that we have started, and that we continue, with steel producers in the United…11 Feb 2025HANSARD US Steel Import TariffsIn terms of being willing to make the big fiscal choices, we have committed £2.5 billion of public money since July to support the steel industry, with resources being funnelled…11 Feb 2025HANSARD US Steel Import TariffsIn terms of an understanding of Scottish business, again I should probably declare an interest, given that the Glenkinchie distillery is in the Lothian East constituency. Only…11 Feb 2025HANSARD US Steel Import TariffsI am very happy to give my hon. Friend the assurance that he seeks. We have a comprehensive plan for steel, which, sadly, we have not had in this country for a number of years.…11 Feb 2025HANSARD US Steel Import TariffsTempting though it is to indulge in the hypothetical negotiating strategy ventriloquised through the right hon. Gentleman, consistent with the approach that we need to take a…11 Feb 2025HANSARD US Steel Import TariffsI can assure the House that we are determined to back our steel sector. The Minister for Industry will be at Sheffield Forgemasters tomorrow; as I say, she is meeting…11 Feb 2025HANSARD US Steel Import TariffsIt is a matter of public record that the Prime Minister has had a couple of warm exchanges with the incoming President-elect of the United States, which I think is entirely right…11 Feb 2025HANSARD US Steel Import TariffsI can assure my hon. Friend that we are working on that EU reset, and continue to work on it, through the good offices of my new colleagues in the Cabinet Office. One element of…11 Feb 2025HANSARD US Steel Import TariffsI think the difficulty with the point the hon. Gentleman makes—and I appreciate his constituency interest and the broader interests of Lincolnshire in this—is that other factors…11 Feb 2025HANSARD US Steel Import TariffsIf the hon. Gentleman has an appetite for trade realism, let us get real: the Prime Minister for whom he worked failed to do a US-UK trade deal. Let us also get real about the…11 Feb 2025HANSARD US Steel Import TariffsI can assure my hon. Friend that we are in regular dialogue with the WTO. I was in touch only this morning with Simon Manley, our exemplary British ambassador in Geneva. We were…11 Feb 2025