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evidence that came to us from the review published in October. I | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
expect to publish the recommendations and findings in the | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
spring. Questions for the Secretary of State | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
for International Trade, Thomas Simmonds. | :00:13. | :00:24. | |
Mr Speaker, the EU Canada comprehensive economic trade | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
agreement, CE GAA, is a good agreement for the UK. -- CETA. The | :00:31. | :00:37. | |
UK Government is fully committed to supporting such agreements whilst we | :00:38. | :00:44. | |
remain EU members. The investment protection provisions in CETA will | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
have no impact on UK environment or legislation and they cannot force | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
the UK or other parties to change their laws on the environment or on | :00:52. | :00:59. | |
any other area of public policy. I'm grateful for that answer but | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
many of my constituents are worried about as maintaining our current | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
environmental standards post-Brexit. Could be Minister guarantee that | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
whether this trade deal or any other trade deal the UK intends to make, | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
that our current environmental standards will not be watered down? | :01:14. | :01:20. | |
What I can tell him is that in trying in CETA and many other | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
free-trade agreements it remains the UK's right to regulate in these | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
areas, which would include key environmental protections, and there | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
is nothing for example on the ICS system that would force the UK to | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
change its environmental regulations. I notice however, Mr | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
Speaker, that the honourable gentleman voted against CETA | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
yesterday. But he may not know that when CETA was debated in this House | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
on Monday in committee, the official opposition was actually in favour of | :01:49. | :01:56. | |
it. Michael Fabricant. | :01:57. | :02:05. | |
Has my honourable friend heard of... It is the plan being proposed within | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
the Canadian Parliament for a Canada, Australia, New Zealand, | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
United Kingdom trade partnership after Brexit? Does he share my | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
enthusiasm for this? Mr Speaker, I saw this proposal and | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
we are very enthusiastic about the future of UK trade with Canada. I | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
would repeat that we are currently supportive of CETA going through and | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
we think it is very important for the UK for the European Union and | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
for Canada, and we will be doing what we can to campaign for that to | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
go through, not least in the face of the new-found opposition by Her | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
Majesty's opposition. If I could point out to the | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
Minister, but a majority of the Labour members voted for the trade | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
deal. And given that Canada is such a long-standing Commonwealth friend, | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
Ally, and defence and trade partner, cookie onto this basic question? In | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
a post-Brexit world, if we can't do a deal with Canada, who the hell can | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
we do a deal with? Thank you very much indeed for that | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
question. He is right that more Labour MPs voted for CETA, 86 and 68 | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
against, and over 100 ab staining. This agreement took eight years to | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
that the opposition would have got that the opposition would have got | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
its act together by now. In terms of a particular point, I also quote | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
from one of his colleagues he said, quote, if we can't support eight | :03:38. | :03:44. | |
trade deal with liberal, Justin Trudeau led Canada, who do we | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
support trade deals with? LAUGHTER | :03:48. | :03:55. | |
Post-Brexit, will be CETA deal be transitioned into a bilateral | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
arrangement, or will vary to be a fresh Canada- UK agreement? | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
My honourable friend raises an interesting point and I think we | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
will have to look at that when we come to it. What would say is that | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
there is a number of important aspects of the CETA deal that we | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
might look to replicate in a future deal, but for the time being the UK, | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
European Union, remain strongly European Union, remain strongly | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
supportive of CETA going through. I heard the honourable gentleman | :04:25. | :04:26. | |
opposite saying he was indeed the backbencher named in the article | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
which refer to him as an unnamed backbencher, so it is good to see he | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
is now named and supporting the Labour Party, and their traditional | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
friends in Canada and the Liberal party. | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
Question two, Mr Speaker. Mr Speaker, the Government will lead | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
the way ensuring countries have their opportunity to trade their way | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
out of property. While the UK is a member of the EU, we remain | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
committed to economic partnership could agreements, a general ice cube | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
of preferences, and we are working closely with the Department for | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
International Development to ensure the global trading system of the | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
future is as fair and as free as possible. | :05:09. | :05:15. | |
Many thanks, Mr Speaker. Trading with developing countries is crucial | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
to providing jobs and livelihoods for sustainable development goals. | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
Will the Secretary of State committed to fair trade principles | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
in relation to future trade deals with developing countries to ensure | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
local populations can benefit sustainably and that it condiments | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
the work of different people in my constituency and beyond? | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
Let me join the honourable lady to contribute to a fair trade campaign. | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
It is reporting to ensure that farmers receive a fair price for | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
their products, and that agricultural workers receive better | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
workers, and agricultural practices are made more sustainable. As | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
Britain leads the EU, outside the common external tariff, there will | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
be freedom to do something things she recommends. | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
When we look at west African cocoa, East African coffee, Tunisian | :06:04. | :06:10. | |
olives, we find that the cause of unfair trade policy is | :06:11. | :06:11. | |
Union. Will he agree that what we Union. Will he agree that what we | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
can set our own tariffs outside the common external tariff of the EU, we | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
can help those countries trade their way out of poverty? | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
Mr Speaker, this Government is committed to an open and liberal | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
trading system. That is one of the best ways to help poor countries, to | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
have an even greater liberalisation than we have today. When we are | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
outside the common external tariff of the EU, we will have an | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
opportunity unilaterally to have new opportunities as he suggests. | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
Thank you, Mr Speaker. The 21st century offers us an opportunity to | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
build on our pride and identity as a nation which promotes human rights, | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
workers' rights and environmental protection, all part of fair trade | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
principles. How will the Government build on this part of our national | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
identity in trade negotiations? We are already playing a part in | :07:05. | :07:11. | |
that. Britain played a major role in the WTO or arrangement, which will | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
come into effect in a short time, trade facilitation agreement. That | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
will be worth about ?70 billion to the global economy, and for some of | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
the poorest countries, such as sub-Saharan Africa, that will be | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
worth about ?10 billion, a major contribution to them and we should | :07:29. | :07:29. | |
be proud. In my role as the Prime Minister's | :07:30. | :07:37. | |
trade envoy to Nigeria... Bravo! | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
Will he join me in encouraging Nigeria to show the benefits of | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
trade widely with its people? That is a message I will be taking | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
when they make a visit to Nigeria myself in the not distant future. | :07:49. | :07:57. | |
Thank you, Mr Speaker. The Department of International trade | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
supports efforts to grow the UK's space Centre, and we work closely | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
with the UK space agency for growth. In January I led a UK space agency | :08:07. | :08:14. | |
mission to the US where I advocated the UK had an attractive market for | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
space sector companies. We intend to highlight progress in Manchester in | :08:18. | :08:24. | |
May. UK Export Finance offers finance to help UK-based companies | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
in the space sector. It is great to hear that the UK is | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
fast becoming a world leader in the space sector, but can right | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
honourable friend inform the house on his efforts to secure foreign | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
direct investment into the UK to support domestic growth in this | :08:46. | :08:46. | |
industry? My honourable friend is right to | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
raise the importance of the sector. The numbers are fantastic, six times | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
the average development investment, and 2.7 times the average | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
productivity in the UK. In the last few years, we have supported 19 | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
successful investment project in this sector and will continue to | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
work with the Department of business energy and industrial strategy to | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
deliver UK space innovation and growth into the future. | :09:14. | :09:22. | |
The encrypted public service channels of the new Galileo space | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
navigation system are restricted to the EU member states. What steps | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
will the Government take post-Brexit to ensure the Government has access | :09:31. | :09:37. | |
to Galileo, which we invested in? Galileo is the satellite navigation | :09:38. | :09:39. | |
Agency, by the European Union. This Agency, by the European Union. This | :09:40. | :09:46. | |
is something which is one of the many different things we have to | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
negotiate over the coming years. The use of spectrum is one of the most | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
incredible things, because Spectrum is limited to this area. This is | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
something the Government will be looking at as one of many other | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
things, many important things to look at. I assure him this is a... | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
Spectrum is a valuable asset to this country and we will make sure we get | :10:10. | :10:11. | |
our fair share. Since 23rd June the UK has continued | :10:12. | :10:24. | |
to attract investment from global technology companies, including | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
Facebook expanding by 50% in the UK. Google pledging to invest ?1 | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
billion. Snap chat's new global HQ in London and more. This showcases | :10:34. | :10:40. | |
the UK's leading capability through our overseas network and through our | :10:41. | :10:47. | |
digital platform. The global market for smart City | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
technologies alone is something in the region of $400 billion. British | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
firms lead the way in many of the specialisations. However, we could | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
win more contracts if there was a UK approach to having a complete City | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
solution. Could I encourage ministers to promote greater | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
collaboration between businesses and Government. ? My honourable friend | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
is correct. I agree with everything he said, in terms of the size of the | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
UK capability, the size of the potential market and the need to | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
have a team UK approach, which I spoke about recently when I visited | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
his APPG, just two weeks ago. And Mr Speaker, in addition I can announce | :11:30. | :11:36. | |
today two UK companies that secured a contract worth tens of millions of | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
pounds to build a new head quarters in the UAE with support of UK Export | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
Finance, showing the UK remains very much open for business. | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
Mr Speaker, the number one tech Brexit worry is when we leave, it | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
will become unlawful to send personal data from Europe into the | :11:57. | :12:06. | |
UK unless we've achieved a declaration made by the European | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
Commission about our privacy arrangements. Will that declaration | :12:10. | :12:16. | |
be achieved in time? Well, Mr Speaker, I was in the previous | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
question and I heard him ask precisely the same question. Of the | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
technology minister and the UK is committed to implementing the global | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
agreement, committing to make sure this will work for the UK once we | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
transition outside of the European Union. Thank you, Mr Speaker. I | :12:37. | :12:44. | |
welcome the British business banks funding. Will it ensure that Britain | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
get their fair share so the rev lulings can continue? -- revolution | :12:51. | :12:57. | |
can continue. May I thank him on the fourth Industrial Revolution in this | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
House and beyond as being a key advocate not just in the UK, but | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
around the world, in making sure the UK takes advantage of its great | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
strengths in technological expertise? Figures published by the | :13:11. | :13:21. | |
centre for City show that Glasgow's exports were worth... Where the | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
technology sector in Glasgow, will the Secretary of State consider the | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
Scottish Government's proposals in Scotland place in Europe to keep | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
Scotland in the single market? I am very sympathetic to Glasgow | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
maintaining its exports and capability in smart cities. The UK | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
and the department for international trade we follow the whole of the UK | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
approach, often working with key partners like Scotland development | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
international. However, I will point out, that more important is Scotland | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
remaining in the United Kingdom, where some four times as much of | :13:56. | :14:02. | |
Scottish produce and capabilities exported within the United Kingdom, | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
compared to the European Union. Thank you. British tech firms have | :14:06. | :14:13. | |
been unable to go to two US trade shows and look unlikely to attend a | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
top conference in Singapore, due to extensive delays from his department | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
in announcing trade access partnership funding L he go back to | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
the department and conif irm the funding so British businesses can | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
attend trade shows and play their part in boosting our exports and | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
economy? Well, Mr Speaker t department for international trade | :14:37. | :14:38. | |
continually reviews its products and services to ensure that they meet | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
its customer needs and republic good value for the -- and represent good | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
value for the taxpayer. It will be completed shortly. So we will | :14:48. | :14:49. | |
confirm events shortly. Mr Speaker, building on my visit to | :14:50. | :15:00. | |
Taiwan in September, we will continue to work with the Taiwanese | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
authorities to address market issues and to further increase our trade in | :15:05. | :15:12. | |
this important market. The UK and Taiwan share a favourable outlook on | :15:13. | :15:19. | |
Fairtrade. Bilateral trade reached ?5.9 billion in 2014, up 8% compared | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
to 2010. I am pleased the minister met with | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
the President last September. I hope he shares my belief, as Britain | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
reaches out to secure more trade deals that we keep in site our | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
foreign policy values. Does the minister agree that increased trade | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
with Taiwan and the UK is a win for both our economies but also for our | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
Liberal Democratic values? I very much agree with the honourable | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
gentleman. The EC and Taiwan share so -- UK and Taiwan share so many | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
commitments. The protection of a free society and we have very | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
strongly shared values of free trade, open markets and openness to | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
foreign investment. I had very productive talks with the President | :16:08. | :16:09. | |
herself when I was there in September, who is a big friend of | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
the United Kingdom, not least due to her undergraduate time at the London | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
School of Economics. I know the minister will be aware | :16:17. | :16:24. | |
that back in 2008 Taiwan was granted Commonwealth nations research | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
membership and as such they will look to the Commonwealth Trade | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
Minister's meeting taking place here in London in March L the minister | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
confirm that trade with the Commonwealth is a top priority for | :16:37. | :16:38. | |
this Government after we leave the European Union. Will he commit to | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
ensure that during that trade meeting as many members of this | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
House, from all sides can be involved to ensure that | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
relationships with Commonwealth parliamentarians are key? Yes. Mr | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
Speaker, I think in terms of both trade with Taiwan and with the | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
Commonwealth, this department remains extremely supportive of | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
members being involved. I expect in relation to the Trade Minister's | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
meeting forthcoming, in terms of specific engagements with | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
parliamentarians I would hope to see the CPA involved in those | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
discussions. With trade deals in place for the likes of whisky and | :17:18. | :17:24. | |
Northern Ireland products, can the minister say he uses the success of | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
the long life dairy supplied to dairies across the world? Well, Mr | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
Speaker when I returned to Taiwan, when I held talks with the Taiwan | :17:37. | :17:43. | |
authorities in September, agricultural produce was at the | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
centre of talks. We talked about pork exports, we talked about | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
poultry exports and we mentioned, made some progress on Scottish | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
whisky. Taiwan is Scottish's third largest global market. We made some | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
important progress on seeking Scottish whisky being certified by | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
Taiwan. I know a lot of businesses focus on the China market for | :18:08. | :18:13. | |
obvious reasons. When I led a delegation as a party in September | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
to Taiwan I witnessed a vibrant economy. Does he agree if British | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
businesses ignore Taiwan they are missing a trick? I totally agree | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
with my honourable friend. In fact he and I were in Taiwan at roughly | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
the same time back in September. I applaud the work that he does for | :18:32. | :18:40. | |
the APPG, for Taiwan. Taiwan has a long-standing open market to UK | :18:41. | :18:43. | |
goods and services. We need to make sure that we work hard to remove the | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
few remaining barriers there are. That was the purpose of the talks in | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
September. I think the message from this House should go out loud and | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
clear to British businesses that Taiwan is a very good place for them | :18:56. | :18:56. | |
to do their business. Thank you, Mr Speaker. Does my | :18:57. | :19:12. | |
honourable friend see any reason why this will not continue after we | :19:13. | :19:22. | |
leave the EU? Mr Speaker... Thank you, Mr Speaker. Number six. | :19:23. | :19:31. | |
The South-West connects companies in Cornwall across the world. Cornish | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
companies in all sectors can access a full range of department for | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
international trade services. We have launched the great dot gove | :19:42. | :19:50. | |
website. New Cornish exportses step into the place and help compete in | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
high growth markets. There's been a flurry of businesses producing food, | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
drink and other goods. There's no doubt about the quality of their | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
produce. Very few of these products, food and drink go beyond Cornish | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
borders, let alone overseas. Will the minister accept an invitation to | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
meet with these producers and help them expand their markets? As my | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
family have roots in corner over 100 family have roots in corner over 100 | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
years, which means we are no longer an in-comer. He is a south-west MP. | :20:24. | :20:32. | |
He has met with Cornish producers. I am a frequent visitor to the county. | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
At the very first opportunity I will go with him to meet his constituents | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
and across the whole of Cornwall in order to explore ways we can really | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
push this fantastic county's product. Thank you very much. | :20:46. | :20:53. | |
Question number seven. Mr Speaker, I launched a trade | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
policy dialogue with the New Zealand Trade Minister to consider how we | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
can strengthen our economic ties. Last month the Prime Minister met | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
with the Prime Minister of New Zealand land and agreed for work on | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
a new agreement between the UK and New Zealand once the UK leaves the | :21:16. | :21:23. | |
European Union. Thank you very much. THE SPEAKER: The Government wanted | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
it to be grouped with number nine. Indeed. We are grateful. Thank you | :21:29. | :21:36. | |
very much Mr Speaker. I warmly welcome the early and constructive | :21:37. | :21:39. | |
dialogue with our colleagues and friends in New Zealand. Will my | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
Right Honourable friend do all he can to explore every opportunity of | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
bilateral trade with New Zealand, including the natural sin any gis | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
between our rural economies I very much agree. The UK exported over | :21:54. | :22:00. | |
?1.2 billion goods to New Zealand last year and opportunities for our | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
rural businesses will be an important part of the work as we | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
take forward dialogue with New Zealand, which I intend to visit | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
over the summer months. Thank you Mr Speaker. This year the | :22:14. | :22:20. | |
British New Zealand business asoishation reaches its -- | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
association reaches its centenary. I have experience of the warmth | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
between our two countries. Does the minister agree with me that there is | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
a hope and that we look forward to a great increase in trade between our | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
two countries in the years ahead? Mr Speaker, I certainly hope that will | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
be possible, given the freedom we'll have outside the European Union to | :22:42. | :22:43. | |
negotiate such a free trade agreement. In fact it is not just | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
our two countries that will benefit, all countries around the globe will | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
benefit from the new global Britain and our attitude towards global free | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
trade with all the benefits it brings, especially to the world's | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
poor. The Secretary of State will know that New Zealand is a land of | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
30 million sheep. Six or seven sheep for every person. Has the Secretary | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
of State discussed the impact of a trade deal with the leader of the | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
National Farmers Union. They regard the combination of a 43% WTO tariff | :23:18. | :23:24. | |
on sheep meat and increased market access for New Zealand as | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
potentially fatal to our sheep farmers. How will the minister | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
protect them? As I said, that will be an important | :23:32. | :23:39. | |
part of our discussions. We will want to discuss with the NFU and | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
others how we do that. We need to take into account something which is | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
not mentioned very often, the interests of UK consumers in any | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
trade deal we come to. Question one. There are three tasks, | :23:55. | :24:03. | |
promoting exports, serving the why, maximising opportunities for wealth | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
creation, including through overseas direct investment, to support the | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
current account and negotiate the best trading framework for the UK | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
outside the EU. On terms of investment, I can announce that | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
Mcclarn will open a ?50 million manufacturing plant in Sheffield | :24:22. | :24:23. | |
which will create 200 new jobs. Given how desperate the | :24:24. | :24:38. | |
International Secretary is to negotiate a trade deal with the US, | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
what steps will be taken to make sure that Scottish farmers are not | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
on the cup? The quality produce will be a source of negotiation, but in | :24:48. | :24:53. | |
terms of undercutting Scottish economy, what I am told by investors | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
in the United States is that one of the things hanging over them that is | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
actually depressing investment opportunities is the threat of | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
separation. I welcome the recent establishment of a UK Israel trade | :25:09. | :25:16. | |
working group. We have seen bilateral trade between the UK and | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
is well increase year after year. Can the Secretary of State provide | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
further information about how the group works and does he share my | :25:26. | :25:28. | |
view that the Middle Eastern democracy should be one of our first | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
trade deals? My honourable friend is right to highlight the good trade | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
system we have with Israel. It was announced there will be a working | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
group on trade by the Prime Minister earlier in the week, but the EU | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
already has a trade arrangement with Israel and this is something in the | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
first instance we would look to continue. But I am sure there will | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
be many opportunities where we can improve on that, given the fact the | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
trade deal was done with one country and 28 and bilateral will be easier | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
to negotiate. The Secretary of State had promised that had he had the | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
opportunity to debate the trade agreement on the floor of the house, | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
but the promise was broken and the debate was sidelined to an obscure | :26:19. | :26:25. | |
committee earlier this week. Given that the UK will soon be responsible | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
for negotiating is an international trade deals following Brexit, what | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
assurances can the Secretary of State can be House that | :26:36. | :26:38. | |
parliamentarians will have the full opportunity to scrutinise such trade | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
deals in future and not be afforded the discourtesy that we have been | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
recently. It is not an obscure committee. It was a two and a half | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
hour debate in committee room ten following the proper procedures set | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
out by this House. At the end of the debate she failed to oppose | :26:59. | :27:10. | |
anything, yet in the Scottish Parliament yesterday they voted | :27:11. | :27:12. | |
against it en masse. They have changed their position on something | :27:13. | :27:15. | |
that has been debated for eight that has been debated for eight | :27:16. | :27:22. | |
years in the space of 24 hours. Many Cornishmen and women emigrated to | :27:23. | :27:25. | |
seek work in the New Zealand in the late 19th century. Will my | :27:26. | :27:28. | |
honourable friend now support other great Cornish exports, our wonderful | :27:29. | :27:38. | |
produce, such as Cornish side produced in my constituency? It is | :27:39. | :27:42. | |
good to see the far west of the country is being well represented on | :27:43. | :27:49. | |
a one line whip. There are fantastic products coming from her | :27:50. | :27:55. | |
constituency, with many award-winning brands. It is the job | :27:56. | :28:01. | |
of the Department of International trade to push exports from Cornwall | :28:02. | :28:08. | |
to the four corners of the globe. When I read to the Secretary of | :28:09. | :28:12. | |
State in November to asked for an investigation into his department | :28:13. | :28:16. | |
was Mac support for any British businesses engaging corrupt | :28:17. | :28:19. | |
practices, he replied saying his department had no power to conduct | :28:20. | :28:22. | |
such an investigation. Last week after the publicity surrounding | :28:23. | :28:28. | |
Rolls-Royce's deferred prosecution, he announced precisely such an | :28:29. | :28:33. | |
investigation. When did the powers of his department change? One will | :28:34. | :28:37. | |
enquiry report back and why will he -- and well he explained why he has | :28:38. | :28:41. | |
not complied with the principles of the OECD anti-bribery and | :28:42. | :28:47. | |
corruption? Rolls-Royce has made it clear it will not tolerate improper | :28:48. | :28:54. | |
business of any sort. They continue to operate with the Serious Fraud | :28:55. | :28:57. | |
Office and we await the final outcome. It would not be proper to | :28:58. | :29:06. | |
comment before that. The details of the statements... To contribute the | :29:07. | :29:26. | |
trend of south-west transporting, a large company has won a contract to | :29:27. | :29:34. | |
provide technology to Indonesia. While his department work with me to | :29:35. | :29:39. | |
produce a short story to capture the story and to encourage other SMEs? | :29:40. | :29:46. | |
I'm sure my honourable friend had something to do with that. | :29:47. | :29:53. | |
Absolutely. We would all be delighted to help in any way we can | :29:54. | :30:03. | |
to help promote this investment. A hard Tory Brexit will be damaging | :30:04. | :30:07. | |
for the Scottish aerospace industry which contributes more than 130 | :30:08. | :30:12. | |
million to the Scottish economy. Will assurances be provided that the | :30:13. | :30:16. | |
Scottish aerospace sector will have barrier free access to the European | :30:17. | :30:21. | |
single market? It has been the very clear aim of the government to | :30:22. | :30:26. | |
ensure tariff and barrier free access once we leave the European | :30:27. | :30:30. | |
Union and that's what we intend to negotiate. The Scottish aerospace | :30:31. | :30:35. | |
industry will be stronger for being represented by all of the United | :30:36. | :30:40. | |
Kingdom. Does he agree with me that company registration using a company | :30:41. | :30:45. | |
's house type model is important to promote the economies of developing | :30:46. | :30:49. | |
companies seeking foreign direct investment and it's also good news | :30:50. | :30:53. | |
for the UK financial services sector that will follow on from such a | :30:54. | :30:59. | |
scheme? My honourable friend makes an important general point in a | :31:00. | :31:08. | |
specific question. One we have an open trading system, it is a win- | :31:09. | :31:14. | |
win. The economies can benefit from sharing the same system. How many | :31:15. | :31:24. | |
employees have the Civil Service recruited. We are adding 50 extra | :31:25. | :31:31. | |
staff to our trade policy group and will continue to do so. We will be | :31:32. | :31:37. | |
increasing the numbers as we look at our WTO numbers and our obligations | :31:38. | :31:43. | |
there. Also one we look to the FTA is that we have. The current number | :31:44. | :31:47. | |
of 200 will be augmented as we go forward. -- FTAs. We take an ongoing | :31:48. | :32:05. | |
and continuous interest in the still sector. It is obviously a sector | :32:06. | :32:10. | |
facing difficulty at the moment that the low global steel price, but we | :32:11. | :32:15. | |
do see a good future for UK steel and the Department of International | :32:16. | :32:18. | |
Trade looks forward to taking part in a hollow government approach to | :32:19. | :32:23. | |
make sure that UK steel is sold the board. Order. Urgent question. | :32:24. | :32:28. | |
Yvette Cooper. To of the Home Secretary to make a statement on the | :32:29. | :32:33. | |
government 's decision to close the scheme for child refugees. Secretary | :32:34. | :32:44. | |
of State. We have pledged over ?2.3 billion in | :32:45. | :33:00. | |
aid to the simmering conflict. It is our largest ever humanitarian | :33:01. | :33:04. | |
response to a single crisis. The UK has contributed significantly to | :33:05. | :33:08. | |
hosting, supporting and protecting the most vulnerable children | :33:09. | :33:13. | |
affected by the migration crisis. In the year ending September 2016, we | :33:14. | :33:17. | |
granted asylum or another form of leave to over 8000 children. Of the | :33:18. | :33:23. |