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Adjournment debate on Tuesday, 13 October 2009, in the House of Commons, led by Mark Field. The answering member was Chris Bryant.

China and the West

Westminster Hall adjournment debate on implications for UK policy of relations between China and the West.

Secondary information

Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
497 c23-47WH 
Session
2008-09
Department
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 497 c35WH (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Lady seems to be wandering a little from the main topic that we are debating.
Jo Swinson | 497 c35WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right to say that consumers, too, have a responsibility, although I argue that...
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Brooks Newmark | 497 c35WH (Link to this contribution) In the same way as the hon. Lady is arguing that the Government should have responsibility with rega...
Jo Swinson | 497 c35-6WH (Link to this contribution) I welcome your advice, Mr. Taylor, and shall return to the specifics of China. China is becoming th...
Jo Swinson | 497 c36-7WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right to say that technology transfer is a vital part of the relationship, alt...
Brooks Newmark | 497 c36WH (Link to this contribution) The subject of the debate is UK relations with China, and the UK does have a particular expertise in...
James Gray | 497 c37WH (Link to this contribution) A point that I forgot to mention in my speech is that when the Government slipped through this place...
Jo Swinson | 497 c37-8WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes his point very well and I hope that the Minister will respond to those comm...
Speaker | 497 c42WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for the succinctness of his remarks, which will give the Ministe...
Keith Simpson | 497 c38-41WH (Link to this contribution) Mr. Taylor, we normally tend to meet at the parliamentary breakfast club, so it is a great pleasure ...
Jo Swinson | 497 c44WH (Link to this contribution) I want to clarify my point. I was not saying that such matters happen here to the same extent as in ...
Chris Bryant | 497 c42-4WH (Link to this contribution) It is a delight, as ever, to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Nicholas, although I disagree with y...
Chris Bryant | 497 c44WH (Link to this contribution) I think that freedom of expression is well advanced in this country. The significant difference is t...
Mark Field | 497 c46WH (Link to this contribution) In that context, let me stress the importance that the City of London Corporation has placed in rece...
Chris Bryant | 497 c45-6WH (Link to this contribution) I could not make the point better than the hon. Gentleman. I would add only that the British Council...
Mark Field | 497 c44-5WH (Link to this contribution) Let me reiterate the Minister's words. There are some concerns from several providers, and a slight ...
Speaker | 497 c47WH (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the House is grateful to the Minister for his consensual response to this very import...
Chris Bryant | 497 c46-7WH (Link to this contribution) I am thinking of the hon. Gentleman's interventions on me as sub-paragraphs in my own speech because...
James Gray | 497 c30-1WH (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Cities of London and Westminster (Mr. Field) for his initiativ...
Mark Field | 497 c23-30WH (Link to this contribution) May I welcome you to the Chair, Mr. Taylor? I often hear your interventions from the other side of t...
James Gray | 497 c31-3WH (Link to this contribution) I beg your pardon, Mr. Taylor. I am being diverted from my subject. My point was that our parliamen...
James Gray | 497 c31WH (Link to this contribution) Is Lord Mandelson in charge of everything? [Interruption.]
Jo Swinson | 497 c33-5WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Cities of London and Westminster (Mr. Field) on securing the deba...
Subjects
China Financial services Economic situation Economic growth Foreign relations Politics and government Trade Tibet
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