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HANSARDUK-EU SummitI thank my hon. Friend for her important question. We will work as quickly as we can on that issue, because, whichever way people voted, they did not vote to stop creatives and…20 May 2025HANSARDUK-EU SummitWe set out yesterday the areas where we had reached agreement. We will now have annual summits, but we will approach that matter on a value-for-money basis.20 May 2025HANSARDUK-EU SummitThe right hon. Member raises an important point. What we want to do with this agreement is ensure that we do remove unnecessary checks wherever they are, but we particularly had…20 May 2025HANSARDUK-EU SummitYes, absolutely. Getting that gateway open is hugely important for Scottish defence and security businesses. Those businesses are world leading, and so it would be a welcome…20 May 2025HANSARDUK-EU SummitI have set out how the costs will be approached, but what we are not going to do is make those budgetary payments that other EU members make. We will look at proportionate…20 May 2025HANSARDUK-EU SummitThe hon. Lady will see from the agreement text that it is subject to our constitutional arrangements, and in the application of the rules, it is the application in this House that…20 May 2025HANSARDUK-EU SummitThis deal will make a huge difference to my hon. Friend’s constituents, and she is absolutely right to champion their interests. It will hugely help their businesses, trade and…20 May 2025HANSARDUK-EU SummitI do not think we should pause the implementation of deals that we have already got, but I do agree with the underlying sentiment that we should be doing everything we can through…20 May 2025HANSARDUK-EU SummitAn hour and a half, and we have only just got to pet passports—but I am really glad my hon. Friend mentions it. The deal contains an advance for pet passports, along with the many…20 May 2025HANSARDUK-EU SummitNo, that is just wrong under the agreement. There is an independent arbitration—20 May 2025HANSARDUK-EU SummitIt is the same as the Windsor framework, which the right hon. Gentleman’s party negotiated. This is an important point: it is an independent arbitration process. There is the same…20 May 2025HANSARDUK-EU SummitI do think it is really hard to fathom, and I hope that SNP Members reconsider their position, because lining up against better trade and better business opportunities for…20 May 2025HANSARDUK-EU SummitThat is a very good question that the right hon. Gentleman should put to Boris Johnson.20 May 2025HANSARDUK-EU SummitThey all know this. Every trade deal has an arbitration clause to deal with the settlement of disputes. All trade deals have that, including all the trade deals that the…20 May 2025HANSARDUK-EU SummitAs the right hon. Gentleman will know, the SPS agreement that we have negotiated for the UK as a whole is good for Northern Ireland because it complements the current SPS…20 May 2025HANSARDUK-EU SummitI remind the right hon. Lady that nothing that was negotiated on fishing by the previous Government has been given away; quite the contrary. On costs—I gave a full answer…20 May 2025HANSARDUK-EU SummitI can. We have approached this on a serious, pragmatic basis. We have got a deal with 10 strands that massively takes our country forward. That is on top of the India deal and the…20 May 2025HANSARDUK-EU SummitThe hon. Member raises an important point, and we will continue our discussions with others to try to resolve some of the frustrations—to which, common sense would suggest, we can…20 May 2025HANSARDUK-EU SummitLet me rest on my hon. Friend’s first example, which was of cars. The India deal, which massively slashed the tariff on cars, is good for car manufacturing and good for car…20 May 2025HANSARDUK-EU SummitAs the hon. Member knows, we are committed to Horizon. We will retain that commitment to research, because it is so important for our national interest.20 May 2025