Speeches by Reynolds.

“Is the DBT currently geared for showing those opportunities to British companies?”

“Do you think it will make an impact on the number of imports from India to the UK?”

“The Government have said that the IP chapter goes beyond India’s precedent in FTAs. How do you think it works and do you think it undermines the pharmaceutical industry in the UK?”

“This is an open question for anybody. Will the agreement have a meaningful influence on UK firms pursuing procurement opportunities in India?”

“DBT has said that this agreement delivers India’s first stand-alone chapter on the environment and that it aligns with our global commitments, including the Paris agreement. Would you disagree with that?”

“Tom, Mr Madders said that when it comes to labour rights, it was warm words but with no real teeth. We could argue that that is the same when it comes to environmental protections, where there is lots of aspiration, but there is nothing enforceable within the agreement. In your view, does the FTA align with our wider c…”

“At the moment India is not part of the agreement for Government procurements. This trade agreement seems to unlock a lot of ability for UK firms to take part in Government procurement in India. Will we see an influx of British companies bidding for procurement opportunities off the back of this?”

“Obviously we have the £38 billion versus the £340 billion potential, but also the minimum thresholds that the UK and India can bid for procurement differs—India is about three times the UK—and does that not just lock in an asymmetry?”

“One of the panels earlier was talking about procurements. It said that one of the things it needed to see was that procurement was going to be open and transparent, and that there would be recognised feedback given so we can see that UK companies are not only able to go and try to procure, but are able to be successful…”

“Would you say that it might look like a good headline, but in reality it will not move the dial? Or do you think it has the opportunity to?”

“The British Chambers of Commerce, TheCityUK, the UK Trade Policy Observatory, Deloitte and the Resolution Foundation have all been clear that the FTA contains limited new market access for services. How successful do you think the UK services chapter is, Minister?”

“Fairly significant savings though, 28%-worth of cuts?”

“DBT is not moving any promotion staff from DBT through to the FCDO?”

“We have Minister Bryant this afternoon, but what is your view?”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Harris. I congratulate the hon. Member for Calder Valley (Josh Fenton-Glynn) on securing the debate. When I woke up on this cold Wednesday morning, I did not think I would learn so much about the manufacturing in all our regions—and when there are so many Members f…”

“The Minister talks about SME exporting. Is he aware that, although UK Export Finance has unveiled what it believes is a fantastic and ambitious plan to support 1,000 SME exporters a year by 2029, there are 314,000 SME exporters in the UK at the moment? I would not have thought that 1,000 a year out of 314,000 is very a…”

“Shopkeepers in Maidenhead town centre tell me how pleased they are to see neighbourhood police officers doing their regular patrols, but those outside the town centre do not see those patrols as regularly and struggle more with shoplifting as a result. What is the Minister doing to tackle that, so that we have more nei…”

“Businesses in Maidenhead tell me that what they want to see in the Budget—the one bit of speculation that they want to hear at the moment—is for the Chancellor to just leave them alone. That is an outrageous thing for them to have to think, and it is because of what they think the Chancellor will do at the Budget. Give…”

“The Minister is right to say that we want as many individual components of these SMRs as possible to be built in the UK, as well as the final SMRs themselves, but what work is he doing across Government to ensure not just these SMRs, but the world’s SMRs are built in the UK?”

“I wish to speak to my new clause 12. Each year hundreds of families get a knock on the door from the police who must deliver the worst news that a family can ever hear: the news that one of their closest relatives has been murdered. However, about 80 families each year receive the news that a family member has been mur…”