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

It is a pleasure to speak to new clause 1, which is signed by a cross-party group of MPs who all ...

I thank my right hon. Friend for introducing the new clause. Some of us have been arguing for par...

I will come to that in a minute, because it does not, and that is the whole point of the new clau...

I completely understand the point my right hon. Friend is trying to make, but one of the interest...

I enjoy the idea that my hon. Friend puts such trust in Government never to take other arrangemen...

I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way and for this new clause. Was he as surpr...

I think the right hon. Gentleman makes my point. I sat in Government and all I can say to him is ...

I have just returned from leading a parliamentary delegation to Lithuania, where my right hon. Fr...

It is always kind to be referred to in another country, which leads me to wonder whether I should...

The right hon. Gentleman makes a good point about some of the weaknesses of CRaG and the need to ...

I agree. I was not so certain about this, so I looked at what Lord Lisvane, the one-time chief Cl...

I am pleased that the right hon. Gentleman is keen on debates. On that basis, I invite him to sig...

I ask the right hon. Gentleman not to tempt me beyond my new clause. I always happy to look at th...

My right hon. Friend is highlighting the various concerns about China’s conduct and why it should...

It is, although I cannot follow my hon. Friend through Lithuania and the atolls of the far east, ...

It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iain Dunca...

I thank the Chair of the Select Committee for giving way. It is a pleasure to serve on the Commit...

The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right and I commend his contribution both to the Committee and t...

My right hon. Friend is speaking very well on some of the new clauses I have tabled on ISDS. It i...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Perhaps it is because we did not want to overly annoy the Can...

It is always a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Birmingham, Hodge Hill (Liam Byrne).<...

I apologise for interrupting my right hon. Friend’s excellent speech. The key was, we were told a...

My right hon. Friend is entirely right. As I observed at the time, President Clinton took the vie...

We now come to a maiden speech; I call Damien Egan.

It is with great pleasure that I rise to give my maiden speech as we speak to this Bill, which ai...

Let us remain in the south-west. I call Anthony Mangnall.

It is a privilege to follow the hon. Member for Kingswood (Damien Egan), and may I congratulate h...

I agree. I could have taken this even further, but my point is that the Foreign Office dislikes a...

I understand that, but I feel that punching through on this occasion would be the wrong approach....

The hon. Gentleman makes a very good point about the need to change CRaG; we mentioned that need ...

The hon. Gentleman and I served for a long time on the International Trade Committee, as it was p...

I fully agree with my hon. Friend’s wider purpose, but I come back to the point that Lord Lisvane...

I really do accept the point that my right hon. Friend makes—how could I disagree when he is maki...

I welcome almost everything that the hon. Gentleman—my hon. Friend—is saying, he and I having wor...

Forgive me if it sounds trite to say that I worry about mission creep, but if we did that on this...

I stand to speak to new clause 12, which stands in my name, and also to new clauses 11 and 13. I ...

I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Kingswood (Damien Egan) on his excellent speech. He ...

The point I was trying to make is that there is also an economic issue here. If China practises s...

It is a point of economic principle that such things will occur if we do not have proper rights o...

It is a pleasure to follow the maiden speech of my hon. Friend the Member for Kingswood (Damien E...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way. He and I have discussed this at great length in two Co...

The hon. Gentleman is quite right. Some people claim that that would happen, but others claim tha...

First, Indonesia is not part of CPTPP. It is also important to note that the Malaysians have intr...

The hon. Gentleman makes a perfectly sound point. That is why my amendment does not say that we s...

Like everybody else, let me start with a moment of consensus. It was a privilege to be present fo...

May I say what a pleasure it is to follow the hon. Member for Walthamstow (Stella Creasy)? She ma...

I rise to speak to new clauses 4 to 7 and amendment 1. I draw the attention of the House to my en...

My hon. Friend is making an excellent, excellent speech. [Interruption.] Well, he knows it anyway...

My hon. Friend is generous in his description of my speech—I am grateful to him—and absolutely ri...

My hon. Friend, who is making an excellent speech, is right to underline the point about ILO obli...

My right hon. Friend is absolutely right. Ministers will have heard his point; whether they will ...

I thank colleagues for their contributions to the debates on this important Bill. Let me begin wi...

The Minister is being characteristically generous in giving way. We obviously sought a debate und...

The Government’s position is unchanged. It is always the desire of the Government, as expressed b...

Will the Minister give way?

I will give way a little later.

The Act makes no distinction between bilateral, plurilatera...

rose—

Of course I will give way—if the right hon. Gentleman first concedes that this has been a well-sc...

Not quite. I am grateful to the Minister for setting out the full history, but will he accept tha...

Of course, the right hon. Gentleman was a Minister in the last Labour Government, and he will rem...

It is very welcome that there will be a five-year report. Will it include numbers on unsustainabl...

That is exactly the sort of thing that I would expect the report to do. I must say that I am deli...

I thank my right hon. Friend for progressing CPTPP with all his usual energy, because it will boo...

My right hon. Friend also played a really important role in getting CPTPP through. I remember our...

I beg to ask leave to withdraw the clause.

Clause, by leave, withdrawn.

I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time.

I would like to thank Members acro...

I thank the Secretary of State for her positive remarks about all the regions of the United Kingd...

The hon. Gentleman raises a good point, and he is quite right. My right hon. Friend Minister for ...

We support the UK’s accession to the CPTPP. Despite the concerns we raised during the Bill’s stag...

It is a pleasure to speak on Third Reading. I must admit that I had hoped we would be closer to t...

May I take this opportunity to thank the Clerks for all the assistance that they have given throu...