Speeches by Bryant.

“Look, I meet businesses that say to me, “10 years ago, I could easily just send a sample of something that I want to sell in country X in the European Union through the post, and now I can’t.” At one company I visited last week, the director actually flew to Madrid to take a sample to the licensing company. That is jus…”

“Broadly speaking, we have existing schemes with Australia and New Zealand, so we want to have the same kind of pattern of agreement. That is the process we are negotiating at the moment. I know I have said this rather often today, but this is a Home Office lead responsibility, rather than DBT.”

“India’s tariff, as you know, is going down from 150% to 75%, and then in later years down to 40%. We have also secured geographical identification in Argentina for Scotch whisky. We work on this all the time—it feels like it is one of our best clients.”

“Is Mr Cooper money?”

“Every time that I go back to my constituency in the Rhondda I drive down a road that was built with cohesion funds, but Amanda will answer that.”

“Where we are signing up to a scheme that has some administrative costs, of course, we accept the need that we would have to pay some share of that.”

“I do not think we have publicly said either yea or nay.”

“Amanda?”

“Nor do I, for two reasons. First, there is an element of speculation about where we might end up at the end of negotiations. Secondly, as I said, I think the only firm principle that I have is that where we are signing up to a scheme that has administrative costs, it would only be fair for us to bear our fair share of …”

“I have not seen either a or b, actually.”

“Completely, yes.”

“I am not saying that we are making contributions to the cohesion funds, just to be clear. I am saying that when we join, for instance, Erasmus+, if there are administrative costs, we would be sharing part of that cost.”

“If you had asked me before Christmas about where I thought Made in Europe was going to end up, I was very worried that we would be in a much worse place than we are now. For instance, the element that refers to the general procurement agreement—”

“Government procurement agreement, sorry. That element is helpful, and I was pleased to see the version that got published, but in relation to automotives, we are in a more difficult position. I am determined to win this. Since we have left the European Union, I think sometimes the UK has thought that a negotiation with…”

“It is all third-party—”

“We are not minimising it. Obviously, at some point we would want to make sure there are amendments to the Act before it ends up finally going through its trilogy of processes.”

“I think the most important part of the argument is that this does damage to an awful lot of European businesses. That is the most important thing. I have said this repeatedly, and this is the argument that the Swedes made very convincingly just after the Secretary of State’s visit; there was an article in the FT by the…”

“That is why I am very hopeful that we will win this argument.”

“They wanted something by 1 April, and I would be very upset if we had not announced something by then. I am not the person who gets to decide when announcements are made, but we are very close to dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s. I should say, because this may be an area that you want to ask me about, that one of t…”

“Sorry, Chair. If I might, I think there is actually a role for the Select Committee in relation to this. If we want to win some arguments in the European Parliament, it may be that the Select Committee here might want to speak to them.”