Speeches by Bryant.
Every Hansard contribution by Chris Bryant this parliament, most recent first. Back to the MP page for the headline figures and analysed positions.
Showing 421–440 of 1,835 contributions · most-recent first
| Date | Debate & contribution | Words |
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| 2 Dec 2025 | Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 996) “Yes, and we are working with businesses at the moment. We have already had an interaction with about 1,000 businesses specifically on the issue of how to take advantage of the FTA. You are quite right that there is no point in signing an FTA unless you manage to get people to take advantage of it. I might just pick you…” | 223 |
| 2 Dec 2025 | Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 996) “No, it does not. I agree with what you have just said.” | 12 |
| 2 Dec 2025 | Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 996) “It does not, and it is not aimed to do so. You and I have signed some of the same letters on his behalf and have met with his brother. You and I both met with his brother on the same day on one occasion. I am passionate in wanting to see his release. We regularly make the point to the Indian Government. I know that sen…” | 159 |
| 2 Dec 2025 | Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 996) “No, I do not think that we have. You are right that sometimes you want to use trade policy as a means of securing other ends. However, the deal that we have struck here—although I was not party to the process of striking the deal; it happened when others were in the Department before me—on a whole series of areas manag…” | 99 |
| 2 Dec 2025 | Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 996) “No, that is true. As you will know, we have only just banned imports of oil products refined from Russian crude in third countries, which includes imposing sanctions on entities like India’s Nayara Energy Ltd, which Minister Goyal excoriated me for a few weeks ago in Berlin, but we hold firm to our position that we wan…” | 95 |
| 2 Dec 2025 | Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 996) “You are quite right that I have long opposed Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine. Back in 2014, I was the only Member of the House of Commons who said that if Putin was allowed to take Crimea, he would inevitably come for the rest of it. I was called a warmonger for it at the time. I think that you held a similar posit…” | 157 |
| 2 Dec 2025 | Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 996) “Didn’t you want to ask me about ISDS?” | 8 |
| 2 Dec 2025 | Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 996) “It will be on a motion.” | 6 |
| 2 Dec 2025 | Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 996) “Yes. As the Minister who took forward CRAG in 2009-10, it would be bizarre if the Government did not want to have a debate on the FTA, not least because we think that it is a very dramatic and significant achievement. It will lead to the protection of jobs in the UK. It will make people in the UK better off and it will…” | 70 |
| 2 Dec 2025 | Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 996) “It is not very alive at the moment. It is certainly one of the things that we need to consider, because investment between our two countries is a key part of enabling some of the other aspects of any deal.” | 40 |
| 2 Dec 2025 | Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 996) “Yes, completely. One tiny other thing that you and I have on occasion bemoaned in the House is the fact that whereas 20 years ago there was a general expectation that free trade around the world would grow, in recent years that space has tended to be more limited, rather than grow. Still 72% of trade in the world is do…” | 92 |
| 2 Dec 2025 | Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 996) “We do have an extensive committee structure. The truth is, as I said right at the beginning, an FTA is only the start of a process. It often feels like the end of a process because Kate and her team have slogged their guts out and gone on endless meetings and so on, but the truth is it is all about the implementation a…” | 153 |
| 2 Dec 2025 | Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 996) “I foresee many tensions on many things.” | 7 |
| 2 Dec 2025 | Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 996) “First of all, there is no mention of CBAM in here—there is no carve-out of CBAM—so CBAM stands and it is one of the things that India know we are going to be implementing.” | 34 |
| 2 Dec 2025 | Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 996) “First of all, we are wholeheartedly opposed to forced labour, whether it is in India or in any other country. Secondly, I am delighted that this is the first stand-alone chapter on labour and there are other chapters as well on development, anti-corruption and gender in the FTA. People have been dismissive about this, …” | 189 |
| 2 Dec 2025 | Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 996) “I am sure you are, and so are we. I have you on my list.” | 15 |
| 2 Dec 2025 | Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 996) “I will certainly write to you. I think this is the fourth thing that I am writing to you on.” | 20 |
| 2 Dec 2025 | Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 996) “As I say, all the work and measuring that we have done would suggest that that is not the case. I am confident in the projections that we have made.” | 30 |
| 2 Dec 2025 | Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 996) “I would challenge that.” | 4 |
| 2 Dec 2025 | Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 996) “I can do my best in providing that. It is worth bearing in mind that India has 19 similar agreements already in place with countries as diverse as Canada, Japan, Austria, Luxembourg, Denmark, South Korea, the Netherlands, Hungary, Czechia, Finland, Sweden and Portugal. We have similar agreements not only with all of th…” | 97 |