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HANSARD Australia and New Zealand Trade DealsAs I am finishing in a moment, I will not take another intervention. The Government’s central trade strategy is a litany of broken promises. We are debating these two trade deals…14 Nov 2022HANSARD Australia and New Zealand Trade DealsWhat the hon. Gentleman omits is that I am judging the Government not against a standard I am putting forward that is impossible to reach but against their own 2019 manifesto.…14 Nov 2022HANSARD Australia and New Zealand Trade DealsFirst, I am pleased to hear that from the Minister, because certainly the feedback I have had from the devolved Administrations has not been positive with regard to the political…14 Nov 2022HANSARD Australia and New Zealand Trade DealsI entirely share my hon. Friend’s concern about the lack of specific impact assessments. I also share his disappointment that there is not a specific set of structures in place…14 Nov 2022HANSARDInternational Trade WeekWell, trade policy certainly has not been covered in glory, because the 80% of UK trade that was to be covered by free trade deals by the end of year is not going to happen, the…03 Nov 2022HANSARDInternational Trade WeekAfter several months in which Ministers have come and gone without even facing questions at the Dispatch Box, it is good to have a chance, in this International Trade Week, to…03 Nov 2022HANSARD UK-India Trade Deal(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade if she will make a statement on progress made on the UK-India free trade deal.26 Oct 2022HANSARD UK-India Trade DealI welcome the Minister back to the Department once again, wish him well and thank him for his response. I am also grateful to Mr Speaker for granting this urgent question. Not…26 Oct 2022HANSARD Trade (Australia and New Zealand) BillI thank the hon. Member for his congratulations on my biography of Harold Wilson; that is greatly appreciated. On scrutiny, if only the Prime Minister had held the trade brief in…06 Sept 2022HANSARD Trade (Australia and New Zealand) BillIt is a privilege to open this Second Reading debate on behalf of the Opposition—in what is evidently the biggest political event of the day. I welcome the fact that we are…06 Sept 2022HANSARD Trade (Australia and New Zealand) BillI completely support what the Chair of the Select Committee says. It is a cross-party Committee, so this is not a partisan point. Whatever has been negotiated by Ministers, they…06 Sept 2022HANSARD Trade (Australia and New Zealand) BillMy right hon. Friend is right to raise what we should do domestically. He also illustrates another point. There is a history of trade negotiations, including on different…06 Sept 2022HANSARD Trade (Australia and New Zealand) BillI am grateful for that intervention. Yes, it seems that the Prime Minister ploughed on regardless, despite the clear advice that she was given. The concerns that we are discussing…06 Sept 2022HANSARD Trade (Australia and New Zealand) BillOn 1 December 2021, in this House, the right hon. Gentleman said that the Australian deal would reaffirm “both parties’ commitments to upholding our obligations under the Paris…06 Sept 2022HANSARD Trade (Australia and New Zealand) BillMy hon. Friend is absolutely clear that our NHS should never be on the table in any trade negotiation, but that is one of a number of significant issues that could have been…06 Sept 2022HANSARD Trade (Australia and New Zealand) BillMy hon. Friend is absolutely right to raise the position of small businesses. Support for small businesses, particularly exporters, is something on which the Government really…06 Sept 2022HANSARD Trade (Australia and New Zealand) BillI will take one more intervention and then I will have to make some progress.06 Sept 2022HANSARD Trade (Australia and New Zealand) BillIndeed. I will not hold the Government to impossible standards and of course there are aspects of the deals that I welcome. In particular, the provisions to advance women’s…06 Sept 2022HANSARD Trade (Australia and New Zealand) BillI am holding the Conservative Members to the standard that they promised in their manifesto. It is not the standard that I have set, but the standard that they set when they went…06 Sept 2022HANSARD Trade (Australia and New Zealand) BillMy hon. Friend makes another very good point about the inadequacies of the scrutiny process. Access to British markets is a huge prize for many other global economies. The…06 Sept 2022