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World Trade (Doha Development Agenda)

I congratulate the right hon. Member for Gordon (Malcolm Bruce) and his Committee on all the hard work that has gone into its excellent and detailed report. There have also been some passionate and knowledgeable contributions to this debate, which he began in his typically disarming manner. He highlighted some of the key issues—the expansion of the private sector and the hypocrisy of the European Union and the United States, which is a theme to which I shall return. The report rightly highlights the failure of the Government to use their presidency effectively for the purposes that we all want to come to fruition in the WTO talks.