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HANSARD CPTPP: Conclusion of NegotiationsMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. He makes the point very well that CPTPP comes on top of bilateral trade agreements. There are many assumptions that if there is already a…17 Apr 2023HANSARD CPTPP: Conclusion of NegotiationsQuite a significant assessment. As I said in my statement, CPTPP is a trade bloc with over 500 million people and a collective GDP worth £9 trillion, but compared with the EU, it…17 Apr 2023HANSARD CPTPP: Conclusion of NegotiationsMy right hon. Friend will be very pleased to know that I have good news for his sheep farmers, which is that we have created more liberalised market access for them in many of the…17 Apr 2023HANSARD CPTPP: Conclusion of NegotiationsIt will benefit businesses in north-west Wales in exactly the same way as it will benefit all the nations of the UK—this is not a deal that is particular to any one nation. The…17 Apr 2023HANSARD CPTPP: Conclusion of NegotiationsI am very pleased to confirm to my hon. Friend that we will present CPTPP to Parliament for scrutiny for 21 days after signing, as per the Constitutional Reform and Governance…17 Apr 2023HANSARD CPTPP: Conclusion of NegotiationsI thank my hon. Friend for his question. The Federation of Small Businesses has said that there are significant export markets for small UK firms. Once we have signed the…17 Apr 2023HANSARD CPTPP: Conclusion of NegotiationsI thank the hon. Lady for her question. I know what she is trying to do, and I appreciate the effort, but it is not my job, as Trade Secretary, to make foreign policy at the…17 Apr 2023HANSARD CPTPP: Conclusion of NegotiationsI thank my hon. Friend for all his hard work as Trade Minister and on continued strong bilateral relations with Indonesia. I may have misspoken—I think I might have meant Thailand…17 Apr 2023HANSARD CPTPP: Conclusion of NegotiationsI thank the hon. Lady for her question, especially because it gives me an opportunity to expand on exactly what the implications of the tariff-free rate on Malaysian palm oil are.…17 Apr 2023HANSARDInclusive Britain Progress ReportOn 17 March 2022 we published “Inclusive Britain”, our response to the report by the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities. It sets out a groundbreaking two-year plan to…17 Apr 2023HANSARD CPTPP: Conclusion of NegotiationsYes, there was discussion. The process started in 2018, so it is not just something that happened under my tenure. There will be the usual process of parliamentary scrutiny under…17 Apr 2023HANSARD CPTPP: Conclusion of NegotiationsThe deal creates more flexible rules of origin regulations, which means that we will be able to sell tariff-free where there are integrated components of multiple products.…17 Apr 2023HANSARD CPTPP: Conclusion of NegotiationsMy hon. Friend is quite right that the standards we are setting here show the roadmap for what the UK is interested in and willing to do, particularly on services, which is quite…17 Apr 2023HANSARD CPTPP: Conclusion of NegotiationsIt would be quite wrong of me to start commenting on other countries’ accession when we have not even signed our agreement. Of course we will have a lot of interest in which…17 Apr 2023HANSARD CPTPP: Conclusion of NegotiationsThe key point to explain is that the investment chapter in the agreement includes investor protections, and they are backed by a modern and transparent ISDS mechanism. It is not…17 Apr 2023HANSARD CPTPP: Conclusion of NegotiationsMadam Deputy Speaker, I would like to apologise to our friends from Japan and Vietnam who had to listen to that diatribe, and to the hon. Gentleman calling this a low standards…17 Apr 2023HANSARD CPTPP: Conclusion of NegotiationsAbsolutely. I thank my right hon. Friend for his comments and also for the work he did when he was a Trade Minister in the former Department for International Trade. He is…17 Apr 2023HANSARD CPTPP: Conclusion of NegotiationsWith your permission, Madam Deputy Speaker, I will make a statement on the progress of negotiations for us to join the comprehensive and progressive agreement for trans-Pacific…17 Apr 2023HANSARDInvestment Treaty Negotiations: SingaporeThe Government will shortly commence negotiations with Singapore to deliver a new, modern investment treaty. Negotiations build on the strong investment relationship between our…29 Mar 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsNo.23 Mar 2023