Trade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill

I am grateful to the Secretary of State for giving way so promptly. I appreciate that it is a bit...

I thank the hon. Lady for her comments. I hope that as we progress the discussions today, we will...

Is it not the case that negotiations directly between Parliaments—that is the effect of what the ...

I thank my hon. Friend. Both hon. Members highlight what is important about what we are doing tod...

While Opposition Members focus on process, does my right hon. Friend agree that professional serv...

I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention and, indeed, for his incredible work in the Departmen...

The right hon. Lady is talking about businesses, but is this not also about individuals in these ...

The right hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. A key element of the Australia and New Zealand trad...

In evidence to the Senedd’s Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee, the Welsh Government, th...

We have done a great deal of economic assessment across any number of layers. I am very happy to ...

Further to the point made by my Welsh nationalist friend the Member for Carmarthen East and Dinef...

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Will the Secretary of State give way?

I will give way.

The Secretary of State will be aware that the Northern Ireland beef and lamb sector is worth some...

The concerns that the farming community has raised are ones we have addressed many times, but I a...

The Secretary of State will know that I represent a large beef and sheep farming constituency, an...

I thank my hon. Friend for her comments. To give her reassurance, all our trade negotiating teams...

My concern is not for the enormous farming conglomerates that we see across swathes of the countr...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and that is why we have built into these first two of our tra...

The Secretary of State is very generous in giving way. On that point, does she not recognise that...

We have not only built in safeguards for that, but of course all the safety regulations in our ow...

Is my right hon. Friend not surprised by the point made by the hon. Member for Brighton, Pavilion...

My right hon. Friend raises an important point, which is that we have done trade deals with two p...

I am glad there has been some progress. My understanding is that the Welsh Government were callin...

I can update the hon. Gentleman: those discussions are continuing and our officials are continuin...

It is a privilege to open this Second Reading debate on behalf of the Opposition—in what is evide...

I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for mentioning the International Trade Committee, which...

I completely support what the Chair of the Select Committee says. It is a cross-party Committee, ...

I congratulate the right hon. Gentleman on his book, which was a page-turner. Will he not take co...

I thank the hon. Member for his congratulations on my biography of Harold Wilson; that is greatly...

Has it not been a long-standing problem—even within the EU—that different animal welfare standard...

My right hon. Friend is right to raise what we should do domestically. He also illustrates anothe...

Is the right hon. Member aware of the article run by Politico in July indicating that the new Pri...

I am grateful for that intervention. Yes, it seems that the Prime Minister ploughed on regardless...

Hear, hear.

On 1 December 2021, in this House, the right hon. Gentleman said that the Australian deal would r...

In addition to climate change and the other areas that my right hon. Friend raises, the British M...

My hon. Friend is absolutely clear that our NHS should never be on the table in any trade negotia...

Does my right hon. Friend share my concern that the Bill, not just the trade treaty, allows, thro...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. If the Government do not give that commitment, we will bring ...

Can we slay this particular red herring, which was also mentioned in relation to the US trade dea...

It is not the threat of the American Government to our NHS that worries me; it is the threat of t...

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

I will give way once more and then I will have to make some progress.

I very much appreciate my right hon. Friend giving way; he has been very generous with his time. ...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right to raise the position of small businesses. Support for small b...

Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?

I will take one more intervention and then I will have to make some progress.

I am very grateful. I speak because I am genuinely passionate. I do not know how many Members hav...

I sincerely hope it does; absolutely. I am glad I took the intervention, because of the hon. Lady...

Stornoway black pudding.

Indeed.

I will not hold the Government to impossible standards and of course there are aspe...

Is my right hon. Friend concerned about the fact that we should allow British authorities to put ...

My hon. Friend makes two very good points: first, we should ensure that our British firms have th...

Does the right hon. Member recognise that we have started negotiations on the CPTPP and with the ...

I am holding the Conservative Members to the standard that they promised in their manifesto. It i...

An additional amendment that might be useful would be to change the requirement for secondary leg...

My hon. Friend makes another very good point about the inadequacies of the scrutiny process.

I thank the shadow Secretary of State for International Trade, the right hon. Member for Torfaen ...

I think that my hon. Friend and I met when the South Korean Trade Minister came to speak to membe...

Yes, I agree. It is incredibly important that we have a basis on which we can improve and that is...

The hon. Gentleman highlights the point that we have passed CRaG before passing the enabling legi...

My International Trade Committee colleague gives me a fantastic prompt for the next part of my sp...

I pay tribute to the hon. Gentleman: if people are not paying attention in their offices or where...

I thank the Chairman of the Select Committee for his kind words. In the spirit of collaboration, ...

I call the SNP spokesperson.

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This is a time when people and businesses across the nations of the UK are facing an absolute cri...

As my hon. Friend mentions whisky, it would be remiss of me not to take the opportunity to stand ...

Indeed, and I want to return to that point later. My hon. Friend makes a very good point about de...

Is the hon. Member aware that the biggest concern expressed by upland farmers in Scotland about t...

The right hon. Member is skating over the fact that the Tory Government have neglected their tree...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I will in a minute.

Perhaps households can get together to buy a single cup of coffee at St...

Or a unit of electricity.

Or a unit of electricity, as my hon. Friend has chimed in to suggest.

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I have said to the right hon. Gentleman that I will give way, but not at this particular moment. ...

I thank the hon. Gentleman. Can he make it clear to us whether he thinks we should have free trad...

I think we should have free trade deals with countries—of course we should—but we should take int...

Perhaps the right hon. Member for Warley (John Spellar) misunderstands the idea of free trade. No...

Indeed; my hon. Friend has made his point very well. However, this is also about the pluses and m...

The hon. Gentleman will share my fear that this trade deal will allow the import of food products...

Indeed, and of course we should have the promised opportunity to go into the detail of this. As F...

The hon. Gentleman is making an interesting point about climate issues and accords. The problem t...

I am disappointed that the hon. Gentleman chose that for his intervention, because I have a great...

The data that my hon. Friend has just read out helps to make a point. Although those two deals ar...

Indeed, and with the safeguards and other measures in the EU deal, there is a similar position fo...

I am not a member of the Trade Committee. I have listened to the technicalities with considerable...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Ah, the hon. Gentleman is going to sell me a car!

Tempted though I might be to sell the hon. Gentleman my late father’s 1954 Morris Minor, which is...

I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman mentioned a Morris Minor, because as a student I was taken bac...

No sale, then?

I know exactly why the car is sitting in his shed. It is because no one will take it out.

T...

It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Mole Valley (Sir Paul Beresford). Despite my...

Committee Room 16.

I thank my colleague very much for that.

I was reminded of something by what the hon. Membe...

Does the hon. Gentleman not accept that the reason we are now doing separate trade agreements, es...

I hear exactly what the right hon. Gentleman says, and he is right to an extent. However, let us ...

The hon. Gentleman is bamboozling us with some of the statistics, but is it not the case that in ...

The hon. Gentleman is a very fine member of my Committee, if not the finest, bearing in mind that...

On the question of farmers and agricultural producers here in the UK, the hon. Gentleman makes an...

Absolutely. This is the tension that there has always been in trade policy over the years—do you ...

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I will make a little progress and then come back to the right hon. Gentleman.

The point I w...

The hon. Gentleman has rightly said that there are tensions between producers in the UK, who may ...

I can kind of see a bit of what the right hon. Gentleman says. For example, perhaps we should not...

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Having mentioned the hon. Gentleman, I will certainly give way to him.

The hon. Gentleman has to recognise that they are also looking for other things that we can produ...

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. In Scotland “jags” means something that goes into your arm, ...

To give the hon. Gentleman a piece of good news, adjacent to my constituency there are already 15...

That is fantastic news, and it has happened before the free trade agreement. That just goes to sh...

I used to be a fine member—but not the finest member—of the International Trade Committee, so you...

Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker; I am honoured. I am delighted to follow the hon. Member for Na h-Ei...

Reflecting on the big dairy production we saw in the desert, did the hon. Gentleman not get the f...

That is a perfect example. What we saw in Qatar was small compared with Saudi Arabia’s industry—a...

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way to me again. You, Mr Deputy Speaker, may remem...

I am delighted to hear the hon. Gentleman ask Whitehall and Westminster to sing a better tune and...

I think we should initially recognise that trade does not exist in a vacuum. It is about relation...

Does the right hon. Member agree that the trade pursued by the European Union with Australia and ...

I have always believed in the basic principle in any negotiations: that it is the terms of the de...

The right hon. Gentleman makes a great point. Australian wine producers have argued that Treasury...

The Chair of the International Trade Committee makes the exact point made to me by Senator Farrel...

It is a great pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Warley (John Spellar). I welcome the c...

I am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman, a member of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Com...

I thank the Chair of the International Trade Committee for his intervention, and I will come on t...

My hon. Friend is making a truly brilliant speech: it is a perfect reminder of why we should have...

My hon. Friend makes a very good point. He is right that the Government must report on food secur...

This debate seems more like a discussion at times, but a good discussion. The hon. Gentleman has ...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. I think it important that when we are striking t...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. As we heard earlier, the paucity of scrutiny is...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Penrith and The Border (Dr Hudson). His contributi...

I have hesitated to interrupt the hon. Lady, because her speech is going really well—as well as I...

I thank my hon. Friend for his contribution and I must admit, as I said earlier, that I grew up i...

These Australian and New Zealand free trade agreements are in the round, I believe, a good thing ...

It is good to have these sorts of discussions. To paraphrase, the hon. Gentleman is saying, “The ...

I think it is because there are many people in this world, including myself, who fundamentally be...

The hon. Gentleman is putting a very brave face on this. Many commentators in the agricultural co...

Order. Interventions, by their very nature, should be short.

I think 15 years is a very long car crash. There will be time to regularise, and the world will b...

I am interested in the hon. Gentleman’s philosophy and approach to trade. He said it was a 15-yea...

I do not have any objection to the 15-year period. I would be interested to have heard from his C...

I wish to focus my remarks on the precedents being set and the signals being sent by this Bill an...

The hon. Lady is making an excellent speech and is speaking up well for her constituents in Chesh...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention; I think we are in agreement. In fact, I agree wi...

I agree with the general drift of the hon. Lady’s speech—it is very good indeed, and I agree with...

I think the precedent that is being set with these deals is important, and that point has been ma...

The hon. Lady opened her remarks with this point and I am sorry to come back to it, but she asks ...

Of course there are benefits to be found in these agreements, but I want to focus specifically on...

This Bill relates to an important agreement for our country as we establish new trading relations...

Since my hon. Friend is making a point on food security, I will take this opportunity to see whet...

Absolutely. I am very happy to back that campaign and hope that we will have an annual report, be...

Speaking so late in the debate has been of real value, as I have been able to listen to so many c...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way; I know I have made a lot of interventions today. One o...

That was a very long intervention.

I note the hon. Gentleman’s intervention and expertise on trade deals, but I do not think his que...

Is it not the case that the whole trick of Brexit was to pretend that trade deals with other coun...

My hon. Friend echoes the point that I am making.

I am drawing my remarks to a conclusion, ...

I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman’s indulgence again. He has made some cracking points in his ...

The Chair of the Select Committee makes an important point. In an early intervention from the Gov...

I will keep my remarks brief—mercifully brief, most people might think—because I do not want to r...

The chairman of the Farming Community Network in Devon wrote a column last year for the Devon Chu...

This has been an interesting and important debate, and the frustration of the House about the lac...

The hon. Gentleman is in full flow, but I want to rewind to the CRaG process, on which he has sha...

Of course we will want a much more meaningful process of scrutiny of trade deals when we switch B...

My hon. Friend mentions the Trade and Agriculture Commission, which it was promised would have pr...

My hon. Friend is right to highlight that ongoing concern. His intervention reminds me that it wo...

My hon. Friend rightly concentrates on the Government’s deficiencies in handling the negotiations...

Absolutely, I see advantages for British exporters, which is why, in my praise for my right hon. ...

It is a pleasure to reply to what has been a serious and, if I may say so, well-informed debate.<...

We have been listening to Members, particularly from the Opposition, saying that we need protecti...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Although one has to work quite hard to find them, we have hea...

I am hearing an awful lot of the typical boosterism from the Government—the spin and froth—but do...

We also heard from my hon. Friends the Members for Totnes (Anthony Mangnall) and for Wycombe (Mr ...

Like the Minister, I have farmers in my constituency; I met them last week and we discussed the t...

The Government have undertaken that and, indeed, the independent Trade and Agriculture Commission...

Will the Minister give way?

I will make some progress, but I will come back to many of the points that the nationalist spokes...

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Is it in order to send this Government to Brussels to ...

That is not a point of order.

A number of right hon. and hon. Members, including my hon. Friends the Members for Wyre Forest (M...

The Minister is doing an excellent job at the Dispatch Box and is making a very good speech, but ...

I thank my hon. Friend for his contribution. He has made his point very clearly, and I am sure th...