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World Trade (Doha Development Agenda)

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Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

450 c145-82WH 

Session

2005-06

Department

Department for International Development

Chamber / Committee

Westminster Hall

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Proceeding contributions

Lord Bruce of Bennachie | 450 c178WH (Link to this contribution) I think that developed and developing countries accept that infrastructure investment is necessary. ...

Gareth Thomas | 450 c178-9WH (Link to this contribution) If it were the same level of aid, I would accept that. However, the commitment was given in May 2005...

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John Bercow | 450 c179WH (Link to this contribution) It would serve to concentrate minds if we had some sense of the difference that would be made to pro...

Gareth Thomas | 450 c179-80WH (Link to this contribution) A number of surveys and analyses have been undertaken by a variety of organisations on what the bene...

Jeremy Corbyn | 450 c180WH (Link to this contribution) I welcome what my hon. Friend said about not forcing trade liberalisation. That is clearly the Gover...

Gareth Thomas | 450 c180WH (Link to this contribution) Another of the issues that the Minister for Trade and I will have the opportunity to discuss at the ...

John Bercow | 450 c180WH (Link to this contribution) There is a precedent here; we are not talking merely about what will happen in the future. If I reme...

Gareth Thomas | 450 c180-2WH (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman knows—he is an enthusiastic supporter of the European Union—the reality is tha...

Gareth Thomas | 450 c177-8WH (Link to this contribution) I cannot comment specifically on Burkina Faso, but I shall make a general point. Through trade-relat...

Jeremy Corbyn | 450 c177WH (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for the way in which he has dealt with this point. At the Geneva talks, what ...

Gareth Thomas | 450 c175-7WH (Link to this contribution) I will be attending the Council with my right hon. Friend the Minister for Trade, who represents the...

Lord Bruce of Bennachie | 450 c175WH (Link to this contribution) Obviously, that initiative from the Finns is useful. If the Minister or the Minister for Trade will ...

Gareth Thomas | 450 c175WH (Link to this contribution) I join the hon. Member for Boston and Skegness (Mark Simmonds) in congratulating the International D...

Mark Simmonds | 450 c172-5WH (Link to this contribution) Tempted though I am, I do not want to get drawn into Japanese economic history, except to say that w...

Jeremy Corbyn | 450 c172WH (Link to this contribution) So that the hon. Gentleman does not go overboard on his Robert Peel tendency, I should ask whether h...

Mark Simmonds | 450 c172WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. He may not be aware that as a liberal Conservative, the leader o...

John Bercow | 450 c171-2WH (Link to this contribution) I do not wish to lower the tone of what has been a very up-market debate, but is my hon. Friend not ...

Mark Simmonds | 450 c171WH (Link to this contribution) What the right hon. Gentleman may not be aware of—there is no reason why he should be—is that most o...

John Battle | 450 c170WH (Link to this contribution) Would the farmers in the hon. Gentleman’s constituency trade off the increase in prices against the ...

Mark Simmonds | 450 c169-70WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the right hon. Member for Gordon (Malcolm Bruce) and his Committee on all the hard wo...

Baroness Kramer | 450 c169WH (Link to this contribution) The saddest part of the hon. Gentleman’s comments is that probably every leader in the western world...

Mark Simmonds | 450 c170WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right—significant progress was made on aid and debt, and I understand that det...

Hugh Bayley | 450 c170WH (Link to this contribution) I hope that the hon. Gentleman will at least recognise that, on the aid and debt fronts, the UK pres...

Hugh Bayley | 450 c167WH (Link to this contribution) Before the hon. Lady moves on to EPAs, does she agree that the business community is part of the equ...

Baroness Kramer | 450 c167WH (Link to this contribution) When plan A is not available, one had better have plan B. I am a banker by trade and we never offer ...

John Bercow | 450 c169WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady has been extremely generous in giving way. Leaving aside the issue of good faith, on w...

Baroness Kramer | 450 c167-9WH (Link to this contribution) I find the hon. Gentleman’s comment interesting. There is a case to be argued that business tends to...

John Bercow | 450 c167WH (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady agree with those who have said that if an extension of fast-track authority is no...

Baroness Kramer | 450 c165WH (Link to this contribution) The Minister has heard a passionate series of speeches and a passionate debate. Members have express...

Jeremy Corbyn | 450 c164-5WH (Link to this contribution) I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend. We had an interesting visit to the Congo. I was interested i...

Hugh Bayley | 450 c164WH (Link to this contribution) I was with the hon. Gentleman in the Congo during the elections. Does he agree that whatever the out...

Jeremy Corbyn | 450 c162-3WH (Link to this contribution) I think it is a matter not of either/or but of both. One is that the west does not sufficiently resp...

Baroness Kramer | 450 c165-7WH (Link to this contribution) The Germans, too. The game has been played to protect aspects of the farm vote, or certain sectors o...

John Battle | 450 c165WH (Link to this contribution) The Germans.

John Bercow | 450 c162WH (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman saying that the nub of the problem is formal lack of speaking or representatio...

Jeremy Corbyn | 450 c162WH (Link to this contribution) I apologise, Mr. Amess, for missing the first few minutes of this debate. I was unavoidably delayed ...

Ann McKechin | 450 c159-62WH (Link to this contribution) I fully accept the hon. Gentleman’s argument. However, the west will lose a major political battle i...

John Bercow | 450 c159WH (Link to this contribution) This question of the consequence of failure is important. While I agree with the right hon. Member f...

John Battle | 450 c155-6WH (Link to this contribution) As the Chairman of our Committee said in introducing the report and as other hon. Members have said,...

John Bercow | 450 c155WH (Link to this contribution) I would give way if I were continuing my speech, but I am not, so I hope that the hon. Gentleman wil...

John Battle | 450 c156-8WH (Link to this contribution) I tend to agree with my hon. Friend. The message cannot be that we back away from complexity and get...

Jeremy Corbyn | 450 c156WH (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend acknowledge that one of the problems in Hong Kong was that the medium-income cou...

Lord Bruce of Bennachie | 450 c159WH (Link to this contribution) That is a telling point. Is not it true that the corollary is the case: that no deal is a lose-lose ...

Ann McKechin | 450 c158WH (Link to this contribution) I share the pessimism and disappointment of my Committee colleagues about the current state of the W...

Ann McKechin | 450 c159WH (Link to this contribution) I fully agree with the Chairman of the Select Committee. It is a very real danger. I have listened i...

Ann McKechin | 450 c154WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman raises an interesting point about the moral issues behind the debate. Given the r...

Hugh Bayley | 450 c155WH (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

John Bercow | 450 c154WH (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely, but the problem is that the richest countries’ approach to negotiations is broadly...

John Battle | 450 c147WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way. It is not simply the timing of bilateral agreements....

Hugh Bayley | 450 c148-50WH (Link to this contribution) We have one last chance to save the talks before the US President’s trade promotion authority runs o...

Lord Bruce of Bennachie | 450 c147-8WH (Link to this contribution) That is a telling point. Indeed, Mr. Amess, you will have heard that the degree of agreement among t...

John Bercow | 450 c151-4WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure and a privilege to take part in the debate, and I begin by paying tribute to the ri...

Lord Bruce of Bennachie | 450 c145-7WH (Link to this contribution) I am pleased, Mr. Amess, to be under your chairmanship. I hope that neither I nor members of the Sel...

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Developing countries Trade Trade agreements World Trade Organization

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