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My Lords, I have agonised, as we all have, about the Bill. I will make three brief points. First, I support the principle of the Bill. I say that as a religious person. I seek to live by a Christian narrative and I share with many Jewish and Muslim friends,...
My Lords, I have agonised, as we all have, about the Bill. I will make three brief points. First, I support the principle of the Bill. I say that as a religious person. I seek to live by a Christian narrative and I share with many Jewish and Muslim friends,...
My Lords, I support the intention of this Bill to concentrate our minds on ecology. I declare an interest in environmental degradation, having the great privilege of being chair of the Natural History Museum, as listed in the register of interests.
Everyone knows that the Natural History Museum is one of...
My Lords, I support the intention of this Bill to concentrate our minds on ecology. I declare an interest in environmental degradation, having the great privilege of being chair of the Natural History Museum, as listed in the register of interests.
Everyone knows that the Natural History Museum is one of...
My Lords, I declare an interest as chair of the Natural History Museum. I want to stress the vital importance of our natural history and botanical collections and our zoological expertise to the national and global ability to confront the most important common challenges of our age. There are more...
My Lords, I declare an interest as chair of the Natural History Museum. I want to stress the vital importance of our natural history and botanical collections and our zoological expertise to the national and global ability to confront the most important common challenges of our age. There are more...
My Lords, I begin by recording how much I enjoyed serving under the chairmanship of the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, of the sub-committee of the European Union Select Committee which produced this report—some while ago, as he pointed out. I should also disclose an interest in that I am president...
My Lords, I begin by recording how much I enjoyed serving under the chairmanship of the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, of the sub-committee of the European Union Select Committee which produced this report—some while ago, as he pointed out. I should also disclose an interest in that I am president...
My Lords, as has already been recognised, since the report was published, events have moved on. The Government have set their course, aiming for a deep and comprehensive free trade agreement, a customs agreement with the EU and a range of FTAs with other markets. More generally, the Government have...
My Lords, as has already been recognised, since the report was published, events have moved on. The Government have set their course, aiming for a deep and comprehensive free trade agreement, a customs agreement with the EU and a range of FTAs with other markets. More generally, the Government have...
My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend Lady Mobarik on introducing a debate on a matter that is topical, critical and urgent. In fact, well before the referendum decision this was an urgent and chronic topic for us. It is the clear Achilles heel of the British economy and has...
My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend Lady Mobarik on introducing a debate on a matter that is topical, critical and urgent. In fact, well before the referendum decision this was an urgent and chronic topic for us. It is the clear Achilles heel of the British economy and has...
I add my thanks to my noble friend Lord Cope for securing this important debate, and I add my congratulations to him and his Select Committee on a report that highlights the critical importance of ensuring that SMEs—and I am always conscious that that means small as well as medium-sized...
I add my thanks to my noble friend Lord Cope for securing this important debate, and I add my congratulations to him and his Select Committee on a report that highlights the critical importance of ensuring that SMEs—and I am always conscious that that means small as well as medium-sized...
My Lords, I join in thanking my noble friend Lady Neville-Rolfe for tabling this important debate. International competitiveness is a function of many things, as we would all recognise: there is tax, regulation, infrastructure, education and the skill base. The two previous speakers have covered those. I want to focus...
My Lords, I join in thanking my noble friend Lady Neville-Rolfe for tabling this important debate. International competitiveness is a function of many things, as we would all recognise: there is tax, regulation, infrastructure, education and the skill base. The two previous speakers have covered those. I want to focus...
The Trade Foreign Affairs Council will take place in Nusa Dua, Bali on 3 December 2013. The Council meeting is
being held in the margins of the 9th WTO Ministerial Conference which is being held from 3 to 6 December 2013. I will be representing the UK at both and...
The Trade Foreign Affairs Council will take place in Nusa Dua, Bali on 3 December 2013. The Council meeting is
being held in the margins of the 9th WTO Ministerial Conference which is being held from 3 to 6 December 2013. I will be representing the UK at both and...
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they intend to seek approval in Parliament for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership; and if so, how.[HL3208]
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they intend to seek approval in Parliament for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership; and if so, how.[HL3208]
If, as is expected, the final agreement of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership is mixed (i.e. contains areas of both EU and Member State competence), then each member state will be party to the agreement and therefore ratify the agreement according to their own domestic processes. Prior to provisional application of the agreement it must be approved by the European Parliament. Prior to full application all twenty-eight member states must ratify the agreement. As part of the UK ratification process the agreement will be discussed in the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments and the Lords Committee on Secondary Legislation, before being debated in both Houses.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Green of Hurstpierpoint on 30 October (WA 272), whether they will publish details of the most recent independent monitoring survey, The performance and impact monitoring survey into the performance of UKTI.[HL3226]
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Green of Hurstpierpoint on 30 October (WA 272), whether they will publish details of the most recent independent monitoring survey, The performance and impact monitoring survey into the performance of UKTI.[HL3226]
The latest results of the Performance and Impact Monitoring Survey relating to interviews between October 2012 and September 2013 and services delivered between April 2012 and March 2013 are now on the website: http://www.ukti.gov.uk/uktihome/aboutukti/ourperformance/performanceimpactandmonitoringsurvey/quarterlysurveys.html.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact on the United Kingdom of the provisions of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership relating to investor-state dispute resolution.[HL3209]
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact on the United Kingdom of the provisions of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership relating to investor-state dispute resolution.[HL3209]
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has commissioned academic research into the impact of investor-state dispute settlement within the context of wider investment protection treaties. This research is intended to inform the UK position with regard to the upcoming investment treaties being negotiated by the EU.
The research commissioned included a framework to analyse the costs and benefits of investment protection treaties as a whole and use of the framework to assess the inclusion of investor-state dispute settlement provisions within the proposed EU agreements with China and with the US (the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership). A copy of this research has recently been placed in the Libraries of the House.
My Lords, I am very grateful to my noble friend Lord Dobbs for tabling today’s debate and for his very informed and insightful comments. Indeed, I thank all noble Lords for their very wide-ranging contributions. I pay especial tribute to my noble friend Lady Neville-Rolfe for her extremely insightful maiden...
My Lords, I am very grateful to my noble friend Lord Dobbs for tabling today’s debate and for his very informed and insightful comments. Indeed, I thank all noble Lords for their very wide-ranging contributions. I pay especial tribute to my noble friend Lady Neville-Rolfe for her extremely insightful maiden...
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to promote trade with Malaysia. [HL3089]
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to promote trade with Malaysia. [HL3089]
In both markets UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) helps British companies in a range of sectors and supports trade missions and businesses at trade fairs. This includes a particular focus on high value commercial opportunities in infrastructure, with activity including business roundtables promoting UK participation in the delivery of the 2019 Asia Games in Hanoi and the Klang Valley Mass Rapid Transit in Kuala Lumpur during Lord Green’s visit to the region in June 2013.
As part of our strategic relationship with Vietnam, we have committed to targets of US$4 billion of bilateral trade and US$3 billion UK investment in Vietnam by 2013. The Prime Minister has appointed Lord Puttnam of Queensgate as his Trade Envoy for Vietnam, and he recently led a trade mission to the market as part of UKTI’s “GREAT” campaign.
During his visit to Malaysia last year, the Prime Minister announced a commitment to double trade to £8 billion by 2016 and grow two-way investment and appointed the UK National Security Advisor Sir Kim Darroch as his Special Representative to Malaysia.
In 2011 UKTI established the UK-ASEAN Business Council (UKABC) to facilitate a step change in the UK’s level of trade with Southeast Asia. The UKABC has worked with more than 500 businesses over the past 12 months raising awareness of the commercial opportunities in the region.
Under the Overseas Business Networks initiative announced by the Prime Minister last year, UKTI is working closely with the British chambers of commerce
in Malaysia and Vietnam to help them build capacity to deliver more business-to-business support services on the ground.
The UK is also working within the EU to establish highly ambitious free trade agreements with ASEAN countries and is currently negotiating bilateral agreements with both Malaysia and Vietnam.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to promote trade with Vietnam. [HL3087]
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to promote trade with Vietnam. [HL3087]
In both markets UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) helps British companies in a range of sectors and supports trade missions and businesses at trade fairs. This includes a particular focus on high value commercial opportunities in infrastructure, with activity including business roundtables promoting UK participation in the delivery of the 2019 Asia Games in Hanoi and the Klang Valley Mass Rapid Transit in Kuala Lumpur during Lord Green’s visit to the region in June 2013.
As part of our strategic relationship with Vietnam, we have committed to targets of US$4 billion of bilateral trade and US$3 billion UK investment in Vietnam by 2013. The Prime Minister has appointed Lord Puttnam of Queensgate as his Trade Envoy for Vietnam, and he recently led a trade mission to the market as part of UKTI’s “GREAT” campaign.
During his visit to Malaysia last year, the Prime Minister announced a commitment to double trade to £8 billion by 2016 and grow two-way investment and appointed the UK National Security Advisor Sir Kim Darroch as his Special Representative to Malaysia.
In 2011 UKTI established the UK-ASEAN Business Council (UKABC) to facilitate a step change in the UK’s level of trade with Southeast Asia. The UKABC has worked with more than 500 businesses over the past 12 months raising awareness of the commercial opportunities in the region.
Under the Overseas Business Networks initiative announced by the Prime Minister last year, UKTI is working closely with the British chambers of commerce
in Malaysia and Vietnam to help them build capacity to deliver more business-to-business support services on the ground.
The UK is also working within the EU to establish highly ambitious free trade agreements with ASEAN countries and is currently negotiating bilateral agreements with both Malaysia and Vietnam.
Lords motion to take note of the recent developments in the relationship between the United Kingdom and China. Agreed to on question.
Lords motion to take note of the recent developments in the relationship between the United Kingdom and China. Agreed to on question.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what official representation there will be by British businesses and Ministers at the forthcoming Commonwealth Business Council in Colombo, Sri Lanka.[HL3065]
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what official representation there will be by British businesses and Ministers at the forthcoming Commonwealth Business Council in Colombo, Sri Lanka.[HL3065]
I understand that there will 60 UK business delegates at the Commonwealth Business Forum under the auspices of the Commonwealth Business Council.
A final decision on Ministerial attendance at the Commonwealth Business Forum has yet to be made.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Green of Hurstpierpoint on 19 October (WA 115–6), how much they contributed to arms export subsidies in each of the last ten years, and to date in 2013.[HL3012]
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Green of Hurstpierpoint on 19 October (WA 115–6), how much they contributed to arms export subsidies in each of the last ten years, and to date in 2013.[HL3012]
I refer the Noble Lord to the answer I gave him on 22 October (Official Report, col. WA 146).
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they monitor the work of UK Trade and Investment in (1) England, (2) Northern Ireland, (3) Scotland, and (4) Wales.[HL2768]
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they monitor the work of UK Trade and Investment in (1) England, (2) Northern Ireland, (3) Scotland, and (4) Wales.[HL2768]
UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) uses an independent monitoring survey (the Performance and Impact Monitoring Survey, (PIMS) to measure the performance and impact of the support made available to companies across the whole of the UK. Performance monitoring of services provided by trade and investment bodies in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are a matter for the Devolved Administrations. Full results of UKTI’s surveys, and detailed discussions of the methodology, including the questions used to derive the measures, are published
on the UKTI website at: http://www.ukti.gov.uk/uktihome/aboutukti/ourperformance/performanceimpactandmonitoringsurvey.html
The EU Foreign Affairs Council (Trade) took place in Luxembourg on 18 October 2013.
I and Sir John Cunliffe (UK Representative to the European Union) represented the UK on all the issues discussed at the meeting. A summary of those discussions follows.
Financial Responsibility for Investor State Dispute Settlement
The Presidency...
The EU Foreign Affairs Council (Trade) took place in Luxembourg on 18 October 2013.
I and Sir John Cunliffe (UK Representative to the European Union) represented the UK on all the issues discussed at the meeting. A summary of those discussions follows.
Financial Responsibility for Investor State Dispute Settlement
The Presidency...