Australia and New Zealand Trade Deals

I am delighted to respond, because I have had extensive interaction with all the five nations’ NF...

Further to the intervention from the right hon. Member for Leeds Central (Hilary Benn), I have he...

I disagree with that. I am just checking my records and I have had extensive interactions with re...

Will the Minister give way?

I will give way in just a moment, but perhaps the hon. Gentleman will explain what his position m...

It is not often that I get the opportunity to do so, and I am happy to say that when there is a g...

I welcome the hon. Gentleman’s support for trade deals and I look forward to him voting for one o...

Surely one of the points we ought to be considering is the fact that about a third of the beef co...

The right hon. Gentleman makes a strong point. We are all in favour of competition, and of consum...

Before we entered the common market, the Australia-New Zealand agricultural juggernaut centred on...

My hon. Friend is an expert on the connections between the United Kingdom and the continent of Au...

What does the Minister make of the International Trade Committee’s finding that more export oppor...

I thank the International Trade Committee for its various reports on both deals, and I look forwa...

We are discussing making sure that these deals are about not just economic benefits, but the soci...

I thank the hon. Member for his intervention. I know that he takes a strong, keen and constant in...

The Minister talked earlier about allowing the British public the chance to purchase in a competi...

The hon. Member raises a very good point. The UK-Australia deal is the first Australia trade deal...

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I will not give way, as I am about to finish.

The country’s departure from the European Uni...

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Perhaps the former leader of the Liberal Democrats can explain why he was so opposed to the deal....

I am extremely grateful to the Minister for giving way to me, however he chooses to do so. We are...

I look forward to the hon. Member actually supporting one of these trade deals. I have already po...

Today is a significant day, and I wish the Minister a happy birthday. What better present could t...

Some farmers are very concerned about the procurement aspects of the deals, which will allow prod...

The hon. Gentleman raises a useful point. Our farmers are seeking a level playing field. We belie...

I accept my right hon. Friend’s point when it comes to dealing with some countries, but in the ca...

I completely agree with my right hon. Friend about the Australian Government. Having met a number...

Is it not also the case that this trade deal does not, for example, have an investor-state disput...

I completely agree with my right hon. Friend that we do not need a single template, but we could ...

My right hon. Friend is being generous in giving way. On this point about scrutiny, he is a Welsh...

I entirely share my hon. Friend’s concern about the lack of specific impact assessments. I also s...

I am sorry, but that is just not a complete representation of what actually goes on. The minister...

First, I am pleased to hear that from the Minister, because certainly the feedback I have had fro...

I am looking forward to a meeting with Vaughan Gething later this week, if I am not mistaken—it m...

I entirely agree that it is the UK Government who are carrying out the negotiations, but they sho...

This is a very interesting and useful conversation. Is it not right that other countries do this ...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right that there is a better way to do that, as he eloquently sets o...

The right hon. Gentleman is making an important point about scrutiny, and it is not one I can esc...

The hon. Gentleman makes the perfectly reasonable point that we need to look at the whole scrutin...

I think we may have been here before, so I apologise for reiterating what I have said previously....

What the hon. Gentleman omits is that I am judging the Government not against a standard I am put...

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As I am finishing in a moment, I will not take another intervention.

The Government’s centr...

The current Secretary of State for International Trade had no role in the discussions on these de...

I may be wrong, but it is my understanding that CPTPP dispute mechanisms are through the World Tr...

The CPTPP has provisions for its own dispute resolution and they are modelled on what happens in ...

I call the SNP spokesperson.

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May I extend my birthday wishes to the Minister, too? I will not ask him how many candles are on ...

The hon. Member is making a point about whether we can vote on the deals. The reality is that hav...

I admire the hon. Member’s dexterity. Having been in the House when he has quite rightly criticis...

Will the hon. Member give way?

No, I am going to make some progress.

Given that his party was in power, the Prime Minister...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

If the hon. Gentleman wants to pick up on that point, I will give way.

I will, on food security. That is exactly why the Government passed, in the Agriculture Act 2020,...

It will come as no surprise that I do not agree with the Government Member. These are damaging de...

But do we not also import chicken from countries with very questionable standards, such as Brazil...

If there are variations in standards, they are certainly nothing like this. The line that the rig...

That was a really disappointing speech from the hon. Member for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and St...

Trade is one of the issues that, from time to time, erupt in British politics. Indeed, in some ar...

Does the right hon. Gentleman think that this may also reflect the fact that for many years the U...

I take the hon. Lady’s point about the shortfall in technical skills. The hon. Member for Mole Va...

It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Warley (John Spellar). I did battle against ...

Does the hon. Gentleman seriously think that that is in any way compensation for the loss of free...

We have a trade and co-operation agreement, a free trade agreement, with the EU, which is importa...

Does my hon. Friend agree that, if we were to try to strengthen the Trade and Agriculture Commiss...

I will be in such dangerous territory if I give a straight answer to that—I am looking to see whe...

Is the hon. Gentleman denying, for example, the animal welfare issues—how animals are treated dif...

I am saying that when the hon. Gentleman compares the standards of Australia with those of Brazil...

The hon. Gentleman might want to withdraw that comment because I have not compared Australia with...

As I heard it, the hon. Gentleman used other countries as a reference and said that Australia was...

It is a pleasure to see the newly branded hon. Member for Totnes (Anthony Mangnall) in his place....

It is a shame that this is not the substantive debate, culminating in a vote on a substantive mot...

The first thing to say about international trade deals nowadays is that they are not just trade d...

Speak up for this country!

My colleague on the International Trade Committee says I should speak up for this country, as if ...

The hon. Gentleman is making a powerful point about climate change. Does he not find it incredibl...

Exactly. I must wrap up— [Interruption.] Oh, I will continue, then. I thought you were giving me ...

The environment chapter ought to have been capable of actually changing the climate change debate...

Exactly. Australia is a deep friend of ours. I spent hours outside the Australian embassy for the...

Farmers across the UK, but particularly in my part of Devon, are deeply concerned by how the Gove...

After a decade of economic mismanagement, with the chaos at the top of the Conservative party and...

In my contribution, I also pointed out that article 32.8 was a very strong clause in the agreemen...

We will always want to get a better deal and to seek better trading links between our country and...

It is a pleasure to have had the opportunity to listen to this debate, to contribute to it and, i...

Is the Minister able to name one single amendment that the Government have accepted from the SNP ...

I would like, instead, to run through how the SNP are failing Scotland’s farmers, given how stron...

Will the Minister give way?

I will not.

The SNP are not champions for Scotland’s farmers. They are political opportunis...

Could the Minister explain, in this middle of his diatribe, exactly what he will say to his const...

In my 1,900 square mile rural constituency I have regular interactions with farmers—probably far ...

The Minister is absolutely right that, at the moment, New Zealand uses only about half the tariff...

My right hon. Friend has an incredible amount of experience in this field. I would be happy to ta...

You have!

No, we have not. That is why our trade deals include specific measures to uphold them.

Befo...

It is important to make it clear that there have been substantial travel disruption and difficult...

I thank the hon. Gentleman; I was about to reference the travel requirements. I was not blaming t...

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. In September, I raised the case of my constituent Simo...

I am grateful to the hon. Lady for having given notice of her point of order. As Mr Speaker has s...