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WTO Conference (Hong Kong)

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

440 c1709-23 

Session

2005-06

Department

Department of Trade and Industry

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

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Proceeding contributions

Alan Johnson | 440 c1722-3 (Link to this contribution) I do not agree. I certainly feel that some member states were making life difficult and will need to...

Philip Hollobone | 440 c1722 (Link to this contribution) Despite Britain’s best efforts, were we not badly let down by our EU counterparts? Does the Secretar...

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Alan Johnson | 440 c1722 (Link to this contribution) I will resist the temptation to endorse the suggestion of my right hon. Friend the Minister for Indu...

Jeremy Corbyn | 440 c1719 (Link to this contribution) Does the Secretary of State accept that many people are very sad that food dumping policies will now...

Alan Johnson | 440 c1719 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the thrust of my hon. Friend’s question. In terms of this round, there should be no que...

Peter Luff | 440 c1720 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the whole House is grateful to the Secretary of State for his characteristically hone...

Alan Johnson | 440 c1720 (Link to this contribution) I think that there is a lot in that. Kamal Nath is visionary, in many respects, in terms of where he...

Alan Johnson | 440 c1718 (Link to this contribution) Most of the discussion was about the relationship between least developed countries and developed co...

Robert Walter | 440 c1718-9 (Link to this contribution) Ministers are prone to adopt the rhetoric of the Trade Justice Movement and Make Poverty History. Th...

Alan Johnson | 440 c1720 (Link to this contribution) We meet the NGOs regularly, and the major message is to keep up the pressure and perhaps take French...

David Heathcoat-Amory | 440 c1720 (Link to this contribution) Is it not an eloquent fact that although there are eight Ministers in the DTI, only one is responsib...

Alan Johnson | 440 c1721 (Link to this contribution) I can say with a straight face that he did an excellent job last week. Secondly, I do not believe th...

Peter Bone | 440 c1721 (Link to this contribution) Was any progress at all made on north-north trade?

Alan Johnson | 440 c1721 (Link to this contribution) First, I do not agree with the hon. Lady about Peter Mandelson.

Peter Luff | 440 c1721 (Link to this contribution) : Keep a straight face.

Alan Johnson | 440 c1721 (Link to this contribution) The matter was discussed briefly in Hong Kong in the context of other focus rules. There is much wor...

Julie Kirkbride | 440 c1721 (Link to this contribution) May I take this opportunity to wish the right hon. Gentleman a happy and relaxing Christmas with his...

Alan Johnson | 440 c1720-1 (Link to this contribution) I do not agree with the right hon. Gentleman’s final comment about the Commission. We have our debat...

Vincent Cable | 440 c1721 (Link to this contribution) Is not one of the WTO’s greatest strengths its provision of the rule of law to stop discriminatory...

Alan Johnson | 440 c1722 (Link to this contribution) No, because that was not the focus of the discussions, but north-north trade is very important. Ther...

Nigel Evans | 440 c1722 (Link to this contribution) While the conference may not be termed an abject failure, ultimately it represents limited failure. ...

Tom Levitt | 440 c1718 (Link to this contribution) The whole House will be grateful to my right hon. Friend and the delegation for their efforts in the...

John Bercow | 440 c1718 (Link to this contribution) The constructive efforts by the Secretary of State and his right hon. and hon. Friends deserved a be...

Alan Johnson | 440 c1718 (Link to this contribution) I agree. That is what ““Everything but Arms”” was all about. However, we must accept that this is a ...

Ann McKechin | 440 c1717 (Link to this contribution) As my right hon. Friend will be aware, the hon. Member for Buckingham (John Bercow) and I attended t...

Alan Johnson | 440 c1717-8 (Link to this contribution) I add my hon. Friend to the list of people who made a genuine contribution. It is not the kind of co...

Norman Lamb | 440 c1715-6 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for providing an advance copy of the statement and note his sense o...

Alan Johnson | 440 c1716-7 (Link to this contribution) I dealt with many of those points in response to Conservative Members, but I shall pick out a few. ...

Alan Duncan | 440 c1712-3 (Link to this contribution) And the hon. Member for Buckingham (John Bercow). There were some undeniable achievements, such as ...

Alan Johnson | 440 c1713-5 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the hon. Member for Rutland and Melton (Mr. Duncan) to his new position. It is a great ple...

John Bercow | 440 c1712 (Link to this contribution) So have I.

Alan Duncan | 440 c1712 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for giving me a copy of his statement in advance. It is four years ...

Alan Johnson | 440 c1709-12 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr. Speaker, I should like to update the House on progress made at the sixth World ...

Alan Johnson | 440 c1719 (Link to this contribution) Our policy is to go for 100 per cent., so we are not just interested in what the 3 per cent. should ...

Linda Gilroy | 440 c1720 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement in the sense of sharing all the disappointments that he h...

Subjects

Exports EU external trade Import duties Trade Sustainable development Subsidies Trade agreements Common agricultural policy World Trade Organization Quotas Conferences Tonga Aid financed trade

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