Extracts from Parliamentary proceedings - June 26
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Extracts from Queen's Speech debate (Lords) Lord Kakkar (CB):...In
that regard, would the Minister be able to address two or three
questions? First, is he content that there will be the opportunity
for sufficient focus on the life sciences sector so that it can
continue to deliver as required without any further legislation to
deal with some anomalies with regard to the environment in which it
has to operate? In particular, is he content that UK Research and
Innovation will be able to drive...Request free trial
Extracts from Queen's
Speech debate (Lords)
Lord Kakkar (CB):...In that regard, would the Minister be able to address two or three questions? First, is he content that there will be the opportunity for sufficient focus on the life sciences sector so that it can continue to deliver as required without any further legislation to deal with some anomalies with regard to the environment in which it has to operate? In particular, is he content that UK Research and Innovation will be able to drive the kind of collaborations and co-operation among scientists and innovators, not only in our own country but across the European Union, and potentially in other fundamentally innovative economies such as the United States and the emerging innovative economies in the east, such as China and India? Lord Sheikh (Con):...I am a great admirer of the Commonwealth. It encompasses 52 countries and a third of the world population. It is culturally, economically and politically diverse, yet shares our values of democracy and the rule of law. The Commonwealth is essentially a ready-made trading market. Its economies are large and small, developed and developing. It includes two of the BRICS economies, India and South Africa, along with several members of the “7 per cent club”... The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (Lord Prior of Brampton) (Con):..The first answer is globalisation. The great beneficiaries of globalisation have been the billions of people living in China, south Asia, India and the like who have been raised out of poverty in extraordinary fashion over the last 20 or 30 years. The other beneficiaries have been a very small minority of people living in the West, many of them like those in this Chamber today, who have seen extraordinary rises in their income over the same period. That is true of every country in Europe and the USA. It is somewhat less in some of the Scandinavian countries, but by and large there has been a small sliver of people who have done extremely well over the last 20 or 30 years. There have been a small number of winners and a great many people who, if I may use the expression used by our Prime Minister, are “just about managing”. The Prime Minister absolutely recognised that as a huge issue... To read the whole debate, CLICK HERE Extracts from Prime Minister's statement on the EU Council John Redwood (Wokingham) (Con): I congratulate the Prime Minister on her policy, which will bring many benefits to the UK and the rest of the EU. Can she tell the House a little more about how far we can go in negotiating free trade agreements with non-EU countries before we leave, and when we will learn how we can spend all the money we are going to save? The Prime Minister: As my right hon. Friend will know, we proposed during the election campaign that some of the money that is returned be spent in a shared prosperity fund in the United Kingdom, which will seek to deal with and remove the disparities within regions and nations and between the parts of the United Kingdom. On trade deals for the rest of the world, of course legally we cannot sign up to free trade agreements with other parties until we are no longer members of the European Union, but my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for International Trade is doing much work with other countries around the world, such as India and America, to see what trade benefits we can achieve, before we leave the European Union, by removing some of the barriers that currently exist to trade between our countries. Robert Courts (Witney) (Con): I welcome the Prime Minister’s statement that Britain will become more internationalist after we leave the European Union. With that prospect in mind, could she give further details of her Government’s discussions with non-EU countries? The Prime Minister: I am very happy to say that we have already had a number of productive engagements on the issue of future trade with countries across the world, notably with India and America, but with other countries, too. We have had discussions with Australia, New Zealand, China and other countries across the world. There are real opportunities for the UK once we leave the European Union, and we will be making every effort to ensure that we take those opportunities. To read all the exchanges, CLICK HEREExtracts from Queen's Speech dabte (Commons)
Mr John Whittingdale (Maldon)
(Con):..The trade Bill allows us now to reach new
agreements with the countries that offer the greatest
opportunities—the countries that are experiencing the fastest
growth and where there is the most likely demand for British
exports and British goods. It is no coincidence that there is no
European trade deal with China, India, Australia, Brazil, New Zealand, or the
United States of America, and yet all those countries want to do
business with us and trade with us, and this gives us the
opportunity to do so...
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