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Australia Free Trade Agreement

Debates on treaty on Monday, 11 July 2022, in the House of Lords, led by Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town. The answering member was Viscount Younger of Leckie.
Lords motion to take note of the Free Trade Agreement between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Australia, laid before the House on 15 June. Agreed to on question.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
823 cc1278-1319 
Session
2022-23
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
Proceeding contributions
Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town | 823 cc1279-1282 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank and pay tribute to the very recent Trade Minister, the noble Lord, Lord Grimsto...

Duke of Montrose | 823 cc1281-3 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I offer congratulations to the noble Baroness, Lady Hayter, on securing this debate. I ...


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Lord Oates | 823 cc1283-5 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I declare my interest as a member of the UK hydrogen commission. It is a pleasure to sp...

Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke | 823 cc1285-8 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I draw attention to my entry in the register. I am involved with a number of Australia-...

Lord Kerr of Kinlochard | 823 cc1288-1291 (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Liddell. She is always trenchant and always e...

Lord Robathan | 823 cc1291-2 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Kerr, with whom I used to sit on ...

Lord Robathan | 823 cc1292-3 (Link to this contribution)

Are the noble Lords sure? They should check where their shirts were made—or perhaps they are Jerm...

Lord Morris of Aberavon | 823 cc1293-4 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I will restrain myself from commenting on the published taxation proposals of candidate...

Lord Bilimoria | 823 cc1294-8 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I paid full credit to the Department for International Trade for having rolled over mor...

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering | 823 cc1298-1300 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I am delighted to follow the noble Lord, Lord Bilimoria. I wonder whether his asking fo...

Lord Liddle | 823 cc1299-1302 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, first, I pay tribute to the noble Lord, Lord Grimstone, who was a very good Minister. H...

Lord Robathan | 823 c1302 (Link to this contribution)

Actually, I agree with the noble Lord, and thank him for asking, but I do not think it is an eith...

Lord Liddle | 823 c1302 (Link to this contribution)

I agree with that as well, but there is also a contradiction about this focus on the Pacific: the...

Lord Udny-Lister | 823 cc1302-3 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I stand, I think, as one of the few to welcome what is a landmark deal. It is an ambiti...

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering | 823 c1303 (Link to this contribution)

I am sorry to interrupt, but does my noble friend share my concern that there should be a level p...

Lord Udny-Lister | 823 cc1304-5 (Link to this contribution)

I am afraid that I do not agree with this, because I think that the standards that exist in Austr...

Viscount Waverley | 823 cc1305-6 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, the noble Lord’s observation leads me to two regrettable observations. Trade is one of ...

Lord Purvis of Tweed | 823 cc1306-7 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Viscount, as I frequently do in these debates. I e...

Lord Robathan | 823 c1307 (Link to this contribution)

As a farmer, I definitely do not want to do harm to farmers. But I have seen the harm done by the...

Lord Purvis of Tweed | 823 cc1307-9 (Link to this contribution)

No, but we did not see output of beef and hill sheepmeat going down 5% and then 3% with any indiv...

Lord McNicol of West Kilbride | 823 c1309 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, like nearly all other speakers, I congratulate my noble friend Lady Hayter of Kentish T...

Lord McNicol of West Kilbride | 823 cc1310-1 (Link to this contribution)

I was four. Negotiating from scratch in itself should not have been an issue, but analysing in de...

Viscount Younger of Leckie | 823 cc1311-2 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I start by acknowledging the opening remarks from the noble Baroness, Lady Hayter, who ...

Lord Morris of Aberavon | 823 c1312 (Link to this contribution)

Does the Minister agree with the statement made a few weeks ago by the noble Lord, Lord Grimstone...

Viscount Younger of Leckie | 823 c1313 (Link to this contribution)

I shall look into it but I do not think that I agree with that point. As I said, I think the devo...

Lord Kerr of Kinlochard | 823 c1313 (Link to this contribution)

I am sure that the devolved Administrations were informed in the sense that they were told that t...

Viscount Younger of Leckie | 823 c1313 (Link to this contribution)

I would like to park that—I am not going to be drawn into it—but I would like to move on to discu...

Viscount Waverley | 823 c1313 (Link to this contribution)

Might the Minister consider the possibility that there could be two new policy decision-making ap...

Viscount Younger of Leckie | 823 cc1313-4 (Link to this contribution)

The noble Viscount makes a good point, and I shall certainly take that back. I shall make one or ...

Lord Purvis of Tweed | 823 c1314 (Link to this contribution)

The Minister will know that the Liaison Committee in the House of Commons has written formally to...

Viscount Younger of Leckie | 823 cc1314-5 (Link to this contribution)

I am not able to say whether we have responded, but I shall certainly get back to the noble Lord ...

Lord Robathan | 823 c1315 (Link to this contribution)

I sense a peroration coming, but does my noble friend have the figures for the amount of beef and...

Viscount Younger of Leckie | 823 cc1315-7 (Link to this contribution)

I do indeed and if my noble friend will allow me, I shall come to that. To continue my so-called ...

Lord Purvis of Tweed | 823 c1317 (Link to this contribution)

Before the Minister sits down, he has not responded to my question about geographical indicators....

Viscount Younger of Leckie | 823 cc1317-8 (Link to this contribution)

Okay, so that is a series of questions. I am going to agree to write to the noble Lord on that po...

Lord Oates | 823 c1318 (Link to this contribution)

On the specific point of the letters, could the Minister give an assurance to the House that all ...

Viscount Younger of Leckie | 823 c1318 (Link to this contribution)

I will guarantee to write a letter—I will write one letter—on the basis of this debate but I cann...

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town | 823 cc1318-9 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the Minister for batting at such late notice, and I thank all speakers—especially the nob...

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