Free Trade Agreement Negotiations: Australia

Well, it is not a surprise that the right hon. Lady is relentlessly negative about the opportunit...

I certainly do not intend to criticise my right hon. Friend—who has clearly put a lot of work int...

I can tell my right hon. Friend that we have already put out expressions of interest for serving ...

I thank the Secretary of State for advance sight of her statement.

For all the bluster, the...

I was hoping that the SNP spokesman would welcome today’s announcement about the Airbus-Boeing di...

G’day, Mr Speaker.

I thank the Secretary of State for this gold-standard trade deal with ou...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right: Teesside is absolutely set to benefit from this deal. There w...

Let us go to the Chair of the Select Committee, Angus Brendan MacNeil.

Tapadh leat, Mr Speaker. Some are saying that Australia has never before had such good luck in a ...

It is interesting that the Chairman of the Select Committee accuses me of haste. It is true that ...

It might help if the hon. Gentleman went on a British Sign Language course.

May I congratulate my right hon. Friend on securing this agreement? As she will know, certain far...

I thank my right hon. Friend. There are huge opportunities for British products overseas. There i...

The Secretary of State just referred to the fact that Australia is 9,000 miles away compared with...

I am pleased to say that this deal is the first that Australia has signed that has specific refer...

I warmly congratulate my right hon. Friend on this deal. She has now signed nearly 68 trade deals...

We are expecting trade with those 11 countries to grow by 65% by 2030. The deal is a huge opportu...

Investor-state dispute settlement clauses allow multinational corporations to take sovereign Gove...

I disagree with the hon. Gentleman’s characterisation of ISDS. The fact is that those clauses are...

The Snowdonia Cheese Company, which is based in Rhyl but also has footprints in Deeside and Wrexh...

This deal is great for UK cheese companies. There is currently an 11% tariff on products such as ...

There is grave concern across the farming industry not just about this deal, but about the potent...

I am very clear that this deal does not set a precedent for other agreements. The reason that we ...

While some in this place hark back to a delightfully rose-tinted past, I am pleased that Governme...

This is our first from-scratch negotiated trade deal, and I think we have shown here what we want...

Antimicrobial resistance is a major global health threat, which led the EU and the UK to ban regu...

Let me be absolutely clear that we are not lowering our food import standards as a result of this...

My constituency of Devizes is home to some of the best farmers in the world, including the curren...

I know my hon. Friend believes in both beef and liberty, and I can assure him that that is exactl...

Australia, like Canada, is one of our oldest and closest allies, and many of us have family and f...

What a welcome voice from the Opposition Benches! If only the right hon. Gentleman could be promo...

I thank the Secretary of State for her statement and congratulate her and her team on this achiev...

My hon. Friend is right. The idea that a free trade deal is simply about who wins and who loses i...

The Secretary of State has mentioned climate change in earlier answers, but she has not said what...

I absolutely refute the hon. Gentleman’s suggestion that Scottish farmers are not going to benefi...

I thank my right hon. Friend for engaging with the International Trade Committee, and I look forw...

Farming is absolutely at the heart of our trade policy. That is why we have worked to get the US ...

The Secretary of State makes much of the so-called transition period secured for farmers, but inf...

The fact is that there is very little Australian beef imported at the moment. What makes much mor...

I welcome the prospect of a productive trade agreement with our closest friends in Australia, but...

I can confirm to my hon. Friend that there will be an animal welfare chapter in the agreement. We...

It always amazes me how a legion of Ministers come to the Dispatch Box and pretend they are great...

The deal will be subject to full parliamentary scrutiny—exactly the same parliamentary scrutiny t...

I thank this outstanding Secretary of State for coming to the House to update us on the free trad...

I fear we already know the answer to whether they believe in Britain or not. This deal will go th...

My constituency overwhelmingly rejected Brexit, because we knew what it would do to our farming a...

I think the hon. Gentleman’s farmers deserve better than the ludicrous scaremongering that he has...

I congratulate my right hon. Friend and all her officials on this excellent deal. Is not the qual...

I agree with my hon. Friend. The fact is that the UK is now open to doing liberalising trade deal...

Can the Secretary of State confirm that her proposed deal will reduce tariffs on meat produced us...

I reject the argument that standards in Australia are low. The hon. Gentleman seems to be arguing...

I join other Members in congratulating my right hon. Friend on this great deal. I also thank her ...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. These are like-minded countries that we have long historical ...

Post Brexit, the EU remains our biggest export market by far. I believe that the overarching trad...

The New Zealanders have a veterinary agreement with the EU, but they also have their own independ...

There cannot be British citizens in the Australian Parliament but there are Australians in this P...

My hon. Friend is right. In this deal, we have agreement on the free flow of data, advanced provi...

While I welcome the deal as a signal of things to come when we are unfettered from Europe as an e...

Northern Ireland is a very successful exporter of agricultural products, and we want to make sure...

I congratulate the Secretary of State on this significant achievement. She has also set an import...

I am pleased that our agreement with Australia will contain a strong labour chapter, and also a s...

I will now suspend the House for three minutes to enable the necessary arrangements to be made fo...