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UK-Australia Free Trade Agreement

Ministerial statement on Wednesday, 5 January 2022, in the House of Commons, led by Anne-Marie Trevelyan.
Statement on the free trade agreement between the United Kingdom and Australia.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
706 cc63-80 
Session
2021-22
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 706 c64 (Link to this contribution)

I call the Secretary of State for International Development—[Interruption.] Oh, I beg the right h...

Anne-Marie Trevelyan | 706 cc64-7 (Link to this contribution)

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. In a former incarnation, I was indeed in that other role.

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Nick Thomas-Symonds | 706 cc66-8 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful to the Secretary of State for her statement and for advance sight of it.

I wo...

Anne-Marie Trevelyan | 706 cc68-9 (Link to this contribution)

I am glad the right hon. Gentleman supports international trade, but I come away slightly less th...

Mark Garnier | 706 c69 (Link to this contribution)

May I congratulate my right hon. Friend on her achievement in this trade deal? She is absolutely ...

Anne-Marie Trevelyan | 706 cc69-70 (Link to this contribution)

I thank my hon. Friend, who is a former Minister in the Department, for all his work and for his ...

Alyn Smith | 706 cc70-1 (Link to this contribution)

A good new year to you, Madam Deputy Speaker, and to colleagues.

I, too, am grateful for si...

Anne-Marie Trevelyan | 706 c71 (Link to this contribution)

I am thrilled to hear that the hon. Gentleman is a supporter of ambitious trade deals, and I look...

Neil Parish | 706 c71 (Link to this contribution)

I also welcome this trade deal, because I think democratically it is of great importance, but of ...

Anne-Marie Trevelyan | 706 cc71-2 (Link to this contribution)

I thank my hon. Friend for his commitment as Chair of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Com...

Neil Parish | 706 c72 (Link to this contribution)

And on the recommendations of the Trade and Agriculture Commission?

Anne-Marie Trevelyan | 706 c72 (Link to this contribution)

Absolutely. We hope that the TAC review will give us a good report and we await that; this cohort...

Tony Lloyd | 706 c72 (Link to this contribution)

Happy new year, Madam Deputy Speaker.

The Secretary of State will know that at some point w...

Anne-Marie Trevelyan | 706 c72 (Link to this contribution)

This agreement has a very detailed SPS chapter, and I would be very happy to sit down with the ho...

Bim Afolami | 706 c72 (Link to this contribution)

I know that the Secretary of State cares a lot about services trade and the positive impact that ...

Anne-Marie Trevelyan | 706 c72 (Link to this contribution)

Absolutely. Our services sectors are second only in the world. They are a fantastic part of our e...

Sarah Olney | 706 c73 (Link to this contribution)

When we compare the original economic impact assessment of the Australia deal, which was released...

Anne-Marie Trevelyan | 706 c73 (Link to this contribution)

Last year’s impact assessment was obviously a snapshot at the time. As the deal has continued to ...

Martin Vickers | 706 c73 (Link to this contribution)

I welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement on this very encouraging agreement. She says that more...

Anne-Marie Trevelyan | 706 c73 (Link to this contribution)

I thank my hon. Friend, who is an active and effective trade envoy to the Balkans. He raises an i...

Lord Spellar | 706 c74 (Link to this contribution)

I welcome a trade deal with our allies, friends and family in Australia, especially for the motor...

Anne-Marie Trevelyan | 706 c74 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his support and enthusiasm for this important deal with one ...

Desmond Swayne | 706 c74 (Link to this contribution)

Might the worries of those who are concerned about the increase in quotas over the next 15 years ...

Anne-Marie Trevelyan | 706 c74 (Link to this contribution)

My right hon. Friend makes an extremely important point. He highlights the fact that we should be...

Kerry McCarthy | 706 c74 (Link to this contribution)

Happy new year, Madam Deputy Speaker.

Australia is the only country in the developed world ...

Anne-Marie Trevelyan | 706 c74 (Link to this contribution)

In this free trade agreement, the UK and Australia have committed to combat illegal logging and r...

Duncan Baker | 706 c75 (Link to this contribution)

We have had another fantastic trade deal that epitomises the cornerstone of one of the reasons pe...

Anne-Marie Trevelyan | 706 c75 (Link to this contribution)

I thank my hon. Friend for his enthusiasm and for highlighting again just how important this deal...

Dave Doogan | 706 c75 (Link to this contribution)

Fair play to Canberra, because they have no’ half scored a great deal with this one. It must be d...

Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 706 c75 (Link to this contribution)

Order. The hon. Gentleman knows that he does not refer directly to the Secretary of State.

Dave Doogan | 706 c75 (Link to this contribution)

I beg your pardon, Madam Deputy Speaker. Why did the Minister not seek to write those exports out...

Anne-Marie Trevelyan | 706 cc75-6 (Link to this contribution)

I am thrilled that the hon. Gentleman is so pleased for those Scottish food and drink producers, ...

Jonathan Djanogly | 706 c76 (Link to this contribution)

First, I welcome the Secretary of State’s very positive win-win attitude towards trade negotiatio...

Anne-Marie Trevelyan | 706 c76 (Link to this contribution)

I will ask the team to write to my hon. Friend about the technical detail, because I do not have ...

Lord Beamish | 706 c76 (Link to this contribution)

I wish you a happy new year, Madam Deputy Speaker. From the enthusiastic way in which the Secreta...

Anne-Marie Trevelyan | 706 cc76-7 (Link to this contribution)

I cannot speak for my colleagues in DEFRA, but I know that progress on the environmental land man...

Andrew Rosindell | 706 c77 (Link to this contribution)

What a great way to start 2022. I commend not only the Secretary of State and her predecessor, bu...

Anne-Marie Trevelyan | 706 c77 (Link to this contribution)

I concur absolutely with my hon. Friend’s comments that the high commissioner, George Brandis, ha...

Tim Farron | 706 c77 (Link to this contribution)

I am passionate about free trade, and so are the farmers in Cumbria and so, I assume, are the far...

Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 706 c77 (Link to this contribution)

Order. We need slightly briefer questions if we are to get everybody in. There is a ten-minute ru...

Anne-Marie Trevelyan | 706 c78 (Link to this contribution)

I will direct all our farmers who have concerns to the level of the safeguards that I set out ear...

Mark Pawsey | 706 c78 (Link to this contribution)

The trade deal that the Secretary of State has announced is an excellent step to doing more busin...

Anne-Marie Trevelyan | 706 c78 (Link to this contribution)

As part of our export strategy, which we launched at the end of last year, we have a number of to...

Daniel Zeichner | 706 c78 (Link to this contribution)

The Secretary of State started her statement by saying that she had signed a deal and concluded b...

Anne-Marie Trevelyan | 706 c78 (Link to this contribution)

The Trade and Agriculture Commission is a group of independent experts who will review in detail ...

Greg Smith | 706 c78 (Link to this contribution)

New free trade deals are incredibly important for securing the future prosperity of our country, ...

Anne-Marie Trevelyan | 706 c79 (Link to this contribution)

We want to see our fantastic British produce sold around the world, including to Australians. As ...

Bill Esterson | 706 c79 (Link to this contribution)

Happy new year, Madam Deputy Speaker. In the Committee stage of the Trade Act 2021, I tabled a se...

Anne-Marie Trevelyan | 706 c79 (Link to this contribution)

I am very proud that we have the environmental chapter in the free trade agreement, which sets ou...

Richard Graham | 706 c80 (Link to this contribution)

The new free trade agreement is another step forward in our commitment to the Indo-Pacific region...

Anne-Marie Trevelyan | 706 c80 (Link to this contribution)

The CPTPP process is in play. We put in our application last year and we are being vetted. I am n...

Jim Shannon | 706 c80 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the right hon. Lady for the comprehensive positives in her statement, but I wish to refle...

Anne-Marie Trevelyan | 706 c80 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his continued support of farmers in his constituency. In the anima...

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