Speeches by Reynolds.

“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?”

“The FTA with New Zealand does have binding climate agreements, but India’s does not. Why do you think it does for one but not the other?”

“On day one of the implementation of this deal, 28% of UK trade to India will be tariff-free. The other way around it will be 99%. After the full 10 years’ implementation, the UK will get to 66%. With the absence of a detailed implementation plan and a cut in staffing at DBT, and the trade promotion staff moving to the …”

“That might all be true, but from day one, the UK will remove tariffs on 99% of Indian goods, whereas, where we are at the moment, 28% of the UK goods that are being exported to India will be tariff-free on day one. It does feel like there is a massive give from the UK from day one.”

“On the fact of DBT shifting the trade promotion staff to the FCDO—”

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

“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?”

“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…”

“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?”

“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?”

“Mike, in what ways do you think the IP chapter fails to meet your expectations or hopes?”

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

“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…”

“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…”

“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…”

“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…”

“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…”

“Safe maternity care depends on adequate staffing, and we on these Benches have been calling for better recruitment and retention of staff in women’s health services for a long time now. Can the Secretary of State outline what specific measures the Government are taking to address the shortage of midwives and specialist…”

“By prioritising partnerships with schools, we will help to protect their budgets. I draw the Secretary of State’s attention to schools in Maidenhead, and specifically Furze Platt senior school—where I happen to be a governor—which recently partnered with MaidEnergy to install solar panels on the school’s building, ther…”