UK-Australia Free Trade Agreement
Friday, 17 December 2021
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Wednesday, 15 June 2022
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I call the Secretary of State for International Development—[Interruption.] Oh, I beg the right h...
Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. In a former incarnation, I was indeed in that other role.
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I am grateful to the Secretary of State for her statement and for advance sight of it.
I wo...
I am glad the right hon. Gentleman supports international trade, but I come away slightly less th...
May I congratulate my right hon. Friend on her achievement in this trade deal? She is absolutely ...
I thank my hon. Friend, who is a former Minister in the Department, for all his work and for his ...
A good new year to you, Madam Deputy Speaker, and to colleagues.
I, too, am grateful for si...
I am thrilled to hear that the hon. Gentleman is a supporter of ambitious trade deals, and I look...
I also welcome this trade deal, because I think democratically it is of great importance, but of ...
I thank my hon. Friend for his commitment as Chair of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Com...
And on the recommendations of the Trade and Agriculture Commission?
Absolutely. We hope that the TAC review will give us a good report and we await that; this cohort...
Happy new year, Madam Deputy Speaker.
The Secretary of State will know that at some point w...
This agreement has a very detailed SPS chapter, and I would be very happy to sit down with the ho...
I know that the Secretary of State cares a lot about services trade and the positive impact that ...
Absolutely. Our services sectors are second only in the world. They are a fantastic part of our e...
When we compare the original economic impact assessment of the Australia deal, which was released...
Last year’s impact assessment was obviously a snapshot at the time. As the deal has continued to ...
I welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement on this very encouraging agreement. She says that more...
I thank my hon. Friend, who is an active and effective trade envoy to the Balkans. He raises an i...
I welcome a trade deal with our allies, friends and family in Australia, especially for the motor...
I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his support and enthusiasm for this important deal with one ...
Might the worries of those who are concerned about the increase in quotas over the next 15 years ...
My right hon. Friend makes an extremely important point. He highlights the fact that we should be...
Happy new year, Madam Deputy Speaker.
Australia is the only country in the developed world ...
In this free trade agreement, the UK and Australia have committed to combat illegal logging and r...
We have had another fantastic trade deal that epitomises the cornerstone of one of the reasons pe...
I thank my hon. Friend for his enthusiasm and for highlighting again just how important this deal...
Fair play to Canberra, because they have no’ half scored a great deal with this one. It must be d...
Order. The hon. Gentleman knows that he does not refer directly to the Secretary of State.
I beg your pardon, Madam Deputy Speaker. Why did the Minister not seek to write those exports out...
I am thrilled that the hon. Gentleman is so pleased for those Scottish food and drink producers, ...
First, I welcome the Secretary of State’s very positive win-win attitude towards trade negotiatio...
I will ask the team to write to my hon. Friend about the technical detail, because I do not have ...
I wish you a happy new year, Madam Deputy Speaker. From the enthusiastic way in which the Secreta...
I cannot speak for my colleagues in DEFRA, but I know that progress on the environmental land man...
What a great way to start 2022. I commend not only the Secretary of State and her predecessor, bu...
I concur absolutely with my hon. Friend’s comments that the high commissioner, George Brandis, ha...
I am passionate about free trade, and so are the farmers in Cumbria and so, I assume, are the far...
Order. We need slightly briefer questions if we are to get everybody in. There is a ten-minute ru...
I will direct all our farmers who have concerns to the level of the safeguards that I set out ear...
The trade deal that the Secretary of State has announced is an excellent step to doing more busin...
As part of our export strategy, which we launched at the end of last year, we have a number of to...
The Secretary of State started her statement by saying that she had signed a deal and concluded b...
The Trade and Agriculture Commission is a group of independent experts who will review in detail ...
New free trade deals are incredibly important for securing the future prosperity of our country, ...
We want to see our fantastic British produce sold around the world, including to Australians. As ...
Happy new year, Madam Deputy Speaker. In the Committee stage of the Trade Act 2021, I tabled a se...
I am very proud that we have the environmental chapter in the free trade agreement, which sets ou...
The new free trade agreement is another step forward in our commitment to the Indo-Pacific region...
The CPTPP process is in play. We put in our application last year and we are being vetted. I am n...
I thank the right hon. Lady for the comprehensive positives in her statement, but I wish to refle...
I thank the hon. Gentleman for his continued support of farmers in his constituency. In the anima...