Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords]

My right hon. Friend is correct. We would not have been able to sign this agreement had we not le...

Many of the figures that are sometimes cited about the future size and scope of the Indo-Pacific ...

The right hon. Gentleman knows what I said to the Committee. It is important to stress the princi...

The Secretary of State has spoken about the size of this deal, and she has mentioned the major pl...

There will be a multiplicity of benefits for small businesses—for instance, the tariffs to which ...

The Secretary of State mentioned car exports to Malaysia. That, of course, will not make up for t...

First, Canada is part of the CPTPP. Secondly, the rules of origin, to which the hon. Lady was ref...

I commend the Secretary of State and the Government for the stance that they have taken with our ...

I am happy to confirm that that is the case. We are now in a position to make our own decisions o...

It is good to hear from Mike Hawes and to learn what he thinks, but can the Secretary of State gi...

According to the models and estimates, it will be £2 billion a year, but it all depends on which ...

There is a great deal of argument about where the opportunity for UK exporters is. Does my right ...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. This deal is thinking about the future. Of course we have a c...

The Business Secretary is making a powerful case on why accession to the CPTPP will be transforma...

I agree with that statement. I would just like to highlight the significant contribution that our...

Before the Secretary of State moves off the subject of cars, I want to make an intervention about...

This is a good opportunity for me to state explicitly that the talks have not broken down. We are...

indicated dissent.

Well, he should know them, because I believe I referred to them in the Select Committee; I hope h...

I welcome our accession to CPTPP, which I think will be of great national benefit, but understand...

There are multiple advantages that will accrue to my hon. Friend’s constituency. I do not specifi...

Does that not prove that by being positive and seeking to engage with partners around the world, ...

Yes, it absolutely does. That is one of the ways that we are able to increase UK influence across...

The Secretary of State talks about free and fair trade and about high standards, but there is not...

I think the hon. Lady might be confusing the contents of the Bill with the text of the agreement....

We support accession to the comprehensive and progressive agreement for trans-Pacific partnership...

I thank my hon. Friend for giving way, because this really matters. With £750 million-worth of Br...

I welcome my hon. Friend’s call for clarity from the Secretary of State, because the collapse of ...

I welcome the hon. Gentleman’s enthusiasm for the Canada agreement, but can he explain why, on 8 ...

The right hon. Gentleman has some gall asking that question, bearing in mind that, during parliam...

I was a guest on the Business and Trade Committee last week, and I specifically raised the issue ...

I do not know what happens in Wensleydale, but I have seen the comments and worries of other chee...

The hon. Gentleman is being extremely selective about the evidence given to the Business and Trad...

As the hon. Gentleman knows, other evidence was given to the Select Committee that underlined the...

The hon. Gentleman references my Department’s trade figures. These are modelling forecasts based ...

One set of figures the Secretary of State’s Department definitely did not put together were those...

In the light of the news that the figures that have been tabled by the Department are not accurat...

It would have been an excellent idea if the Secretary of State had published those. Perhaps she m...

Interestingly, the shadow Minister is trying to have his cake and eat it. He is saying that the G...

All I say to the hon. Gentleman is that I have recognised that there are benefits to accession, w...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Why not?

Given that the hon. Gentleman recognises that there are opportunities from this deal and that, th...

As I think the right hon. Gentleman may have heard—perhaps he was not listening—I did acknowledge...

When, in a former life, I served on the Select Committee on International Trade, one thing we tal...

I share my hon. Friend’s opinion. He aired it during consideration of the Trade Bill a couple of ...

I may have misheard but did the hon. Gentleman just say that the Australia deal was a bad deal fo...

I remember the comments made by the National Farmers Union about the Australia deal, so the right...

My hon. Friend makes an excellent point. Does he agree that there is a huge amount of public conc...

My hon. Friend is right and we hope to pursue those issues in Committee. He would be very welcome...

I would say that it is pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Harrow West (Gareth Thomas), but he...

My hon. Friend makes a good point. Does he agree that when a previous Committee—of which we were ...

I could not agree with my hon. Friend more. That is exactly the reason that we have trade envoys—...

My hon. Friend has made a number of absolutely correct statements about the benefits of the agree...

I thank my hon. Friend for allowing me to get my breath back and for the points that he made. I h...

I have heard my hon. Friend talk about goods, but I want to hear more about services. We see this...

As ever, my colleague on the Business and Trade Committee has steered me back on to the right pat...

On service exports, my hon. Friend will know, as do many colleagues on the Conservative Benches, ...

Education is one of the jewels in our crown of export opportunities. When we look at what has bee...

My hon. Friend is making a powerful speech about the benefits of this accession agreement. We hav...

I am delighted that my hon. Friend has made that point and I thank him for all the work that he d...

I thank the hon. Member for giving way and appreciate that he feels very strongly about this issu...

I refer the hon. Lady to my previous remarks on the TAC report on CPTPP. She has made a point abo...

rose—

I will give way, probably for the last time.

I would like to follow on from the point about beef and meat from Australia. We imported it for y...

That is exactly why we put things such as the Trade and Agriculture Commission on to a statutory ...

In saying that you had gone on for far too long, you managed to unite both sides of the House, Mr...

First, let me say that we on the SNP Benches are also not looking to divide the House. I thought ...

I am not sure that the hon. Member for Wyre Forest (Mark Garnier) quite understands what is about...

The hon. Lady makes an excellent point. One of the ironies here is that because our borders will ...

Moving away from eggs, which I do not think will be the major export from Malaysia or other far-e...

My point about eggs—I will stay on this subject for a bit—related to India and Mexico, which are ...

I was just making the point that taxation raised here is spent on important issues in the United ...

What a load of absolute codswallop. It may have escaped the hon. Member’s notice that every part ...

In the spirit of trying to bring the debate back to the fantastic opportunities for Scotland, as ...

We seemed to be being pulled back to the topic, but now I am being tempted to go off down another...

I suppose I should start by declaring an interest, because nearly 10 years ago I wrote a book cal...

I rise to broadly welcome the UK’s accession to the CPTPP. The Liberal Democrats support efforts ...

I will raise three issues: the scrutiny process, ISDS and my ongoing concerns about the impact of...

My right hon. Friend is making an excellent speech, and he is absolutely right to flag this issue...

I do not know how excellent my speech is—I will just ramble on as usual, I think.

The argum...

The CPTPP poses a serious public health risk, makes us complicit in untold environmental harm and...

Further to the point I made earlier, does the hon. Lady not recognise that the report on the CPTP...

I thank the hon. Member for those interesting points.

I am concerned about the negative imp...

I am sorry, but I just feel that this matter should be hammered home. The opening summary of the ...

The hon. Member makes an interesting point, but my view is about what the future will bring.

Will the hon. Lady give way?

I will not.

I want to end with a stark and urgent warning. Last month, the Food Standards A...

It is an honour and privilege to close today’s enthralling debate on behalf of His Majesty’s offi...

That is not empirical evidence. A forecast is not empirical fact—it is a forecast—and these are m...

I thank the hon. Member for that intervention. Just as the Government’s aspirations go by those f...

It is a pleasure to reply to what has been a wide-ranging and often well-informed debate. The Bil...

I will lightly sidestep the party political debate. As the Minister knows, my interest is in Mexi...

I thought for a moment that the hon. Member was going to verge off into football. I was going to ...

May I pay tribute to my right hon. Friend for the work that he has done, both on this arrangement...

My hon. Friend is quite right. Of course, successive Secretaries of State have pursued that relat...

I have made this point on previous occasions, but I just want to understand the logic of the Gove...

These are all matters for negotiation. What happens in one negotiation will not always be the sam...

Will the Minister give way?

I will not, because I am trying to respond to the right hon. Gentleman’s earlier points. On perfo...