Speeches by Bryant.

“Who got it all, which company—yes. As you will have experienced yourself, that is not an easy process either. You might ask exactly the same question about the quota that we have agreed with the United States of America. This is a keenly fought-over debate, which I am afraid is still ongoing, but that is a debate betwe…”

“It is a common bid of ours in other FTAs and in other countries as well, that we want to have access to the higher-end market, because that is where we have an exceptional offer that travels well.”

“Kate, do you want to go through the pain that was the automotive numbers?”

“As you will know, within the whole of the Department we have a single hub for businesses to be able to access support, and on that they can seek further support in relation to export. It depends a bit on what kind of business it is, but we have a DBT network in India and they would be able to go to it.”

“Do you mean the local barriers in India?”

“I am not sure about the OBR scoring. I cannot answer that, but I am happy to write to you if you want me to.”

“Yes.”

“As I was trying to explain to Mr Reynolds, the number of lines is less relevant than the commercial value of the total package and of the tariff liberalisation within chunks to the UK. Kate made the very important point that those figures of £400 million and £900 million—at entry into force and after 10 years—are presu…”

“—even if we use all the quota, the saving in terms of tariffs across the period would be £5.6 billion saving to the UK.”

“It may be speaking specifically about its sector, rather than about the whole of the deal. If you just take the quota provision for vehicles—Kate will give me the right number, because I will get this wrong in a moment—”

“Sorry, do you want to just listen to Kate?”

“There is an imbalance in one sense, except that if you are taking a tariff down from 3% or 4% to zero, that is rather different from taking one down from 33% or 25% to zero. It is a different order of magnitude. Secondly, of course the Indian market is very large. I should say that one of the things we are very conscio…”

“Yes.”

“I warmly commend the Committee on producing its report. I take no offence at the demand that there be a separate economic security Minister, even though I think the Culture, Media and Sport Committee demanded, when I was the Minister responsible for tourism, that there be a separate tourism Minister as well—there seems…”

“Why—”

“We would obviously always want to keep that under review. As part of the CRaG process everything gets notified to the several Committees that might have an interest. When I was on the Foreign Affairs Committee, it struck me that it was always at that moment that all the members would put their heads on the table—it was…”

“The shadow Secretary of State for Business and Trade, the hon. Member for Arundel and South Downs, argued for the benefits of Brexit—well, I have searched very high and I have searched very, very low for those. The previous Government even had a Minister for the benefits of Brexit, although he lost his seat, of course,…”

“I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the draft Trade Act 2021 (Power to Implement International Trade Agreements) (Extension to Expiry) Regulations 2025. I have never been so kindly called by the Chair in Committee, Mr Stringer, so thank you very much. It is a genuine delight to sit under your chairmanship.…”

“Sorry, can I add just one thing? Following whatever decision is made by everybody, if there are direct implications for us, I am very happy to write to the Committee and engage with you directly.”

“I was going to say all that, but it should probably be me who is writing to you.”