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

My Lords, this group of amendments concerns the arts and creative industries; although, in the ca...

My Lords, I entirely support the amendment in the name of the noble Earl, Lord Clancarty, and tha...

My Lords, this group of amendments includes a number of calls for reviews and impact assessments ...

My Lords, I thank the noble Earl, Lord Clancarty, and the noble Lord, Lord Foster of Bath, for sp...

I thank noble Lords for returning to this important discussion of the various ways in which they ...

I entirely take the point the Minister is making about the timescale for an impact assessment. Ye...

I am grateful to the noble Lord for pointing out that I am already talking about the impact, whil...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his reply on my amendment, which I found reasonably reassuring...

Moved by

Lord Holmes of Richmond

13: After Clause 5, insert the following new Clause—...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to take part in this second day of Committee on the CPTPP. In doing so...

My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendment 15 in my name, and I support other amendments in this grou...

I shall speak to Amendment 16 and to Amendment 15 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Boycott...

My Lords, I am delighted to follow the noble Baronesses, Lady Boycott and Lady Willis, since my A...

My Lords, I will speak briefly to Amendments 25 and 30 and then touch even more briefly on Amendm...

It is a great pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Hayter, who was an extremely effective ...

My Lords, I speak first to Amendment 35 in my name. The Government are keen to strike deals with ...

My Lords, I wish to return to our invisible trade and speak in support of Amendment 13, on inward...

My Lords, I have a quick question for the Minister arising from Amendment 14. I need to declare a...

My Lords, I declare my interests as set out in the register as chair of Peers for the Planet and ...

My Lords, this has been a significant debate and has had a number of themes. One is how we use th...

My Lords, this has been a very wide-ranging debate across a large number of issues. Many of the p...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords for their input on this group of amendments; I will try to cover th...

The point I was making, which I think is being followed up, is that there is a two-tier system. R...

I am grateful to the noble Baroness for raising those points, and I am happy to provide further r...

I am sorry to intervene. I do not have the Trade and Agriculture Commission report in front of me...

Yes, I will reply on that point. As I said, there will be differences in food production standard...

I just press the Minister for some reaction to the fact that his department’s impact assessment s...

On my Amendment 25, I am more than happy for the Minister to write to me and the rest of the Comm...

I thank the noble Lord for those comments. I can say firmly that our commitment to those conventi...

The Minister has given quite an extensive reply, for which the Committee is grateful. At Second R...

I am grateful to the noble Lord for raising that point and I ask his forgiveness if I have failed...

I am grateful to the Minister for writing, and I look forward to it. I am sure that would agree t...

I will not get drawn into the debate on that, but I think that would be 1,800%, rather than 180%....

My Lords, this has been an excellent debate. I thank all noble Lords who participated and the Min...

Moved by

Lord Leong

17: After Clause 5, insert the following new Clause—

“Repor...

My Lords, I speak to Amendment 17, which was tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Alton, who is unable ...

I understand why this amendment was put forward and presented so well by the noble Lord, Lord Leo...

My Lords, I support the proposed amendment from the noble Lords, Lord Alton and Lord Leong. I tak...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, and I agree with what she said. I start ...

I thank noble Lords for their significant contributions to this important section of the debate. ...

My Lords, I beg noble Lords’ patience as I share my business experience of doing agreements in Ch...

Moved by

Lord McNicol of West Kilbride

19: After Clause 5, insert the following new C...

My Lords, we are now on to the fourth group so we are getting there. We have been through the bul...

I am grateful, as always, for the debate we have had around these important points. I hope noble ...

I thank the Minister for his response. As he outlined earlier, there will be an opportunity to re...

Moved by

Lord McNicol of West Kilbride

26: After Clause 5, insert the following new C...

This is a small group of amendments from my noble friend Lord Davies of Brixton and me on ISDS an...

My Lords, I speak in favour of Amendment 26 and my Amendment 33. As my noble friend has clearly e...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords for allowing us to raise very important issues relating to ISDS. We...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords for this important series of amendments and the discussion that we ...

I thank the Minister for giving way. The bit I am struggling with is the contradiction, and I do ...

I am grateful to the noble Lord. We did accede, in terms of their negotiating priorities, to do t...

I would like to thank my noble friend Lord Davies for his detailed explanation of this. It may we...

Moved by

Baroness Lawlor

36: After Clause 5, insert the following new Clause—

“...

My Lords, my Amendments 36 and 37, to which I speak, relate to the proposed arrangements for geog...

I thank my noble friend Lady Lawlor for her Amendments 36 and 37. I can assure her that exporters...

I thank my noble friend for his reply and I look forward very much to discussions. It is importan...