Speeches by Bryant.

“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.”

“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…”

“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…”

“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.…”

“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…”

“Why—”

“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.”

“Chair, Mr Maynard suggested something that I did not hear properly. I think he suggested that one of the things that we might look at is whether we could only allow Israel to have F-35s for defensive operations; I think that was what he was saying. If so, my anxiety is that that is not the judgment we are making. The j…”

“But our judgment is that—”

“No; people have tried quite hard. The way that the F-35s are constructed, and the way the contract is constructed, does not make that easy. The diplomatic arrangements are obviously for the Foreign Office, but I don’t know whether Mr Pollard wants to answer any specifics about the tracking issue.”

“But it is not about gumption, I have to say.”