To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 20 May 2026 to Question 1283 on Department for Transport: Official Cars, what assessment her Department has made of the compatibility of collecting anonymised data on the manufacturing origin of its rental fleet with World Trade Organisation...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 20 May 2026 to Question 1283 on Department for Transport: Official Cars, what assessment her Department has made of the compatibility of collecting anonymised data on the manufacturing origin of its rental fleet with World Trade Organisation...

My hon Friend Minister of State (Chris Bryant MP) has today made the following statement. This is a correction to the statement laid earlier with "I joined the UK delegation as one of the six reform facilitators" inserted into paragraph 2 and "where I drove development of text" inserted into...

My hon Friend Minister of State (Chris Bryant MP) has today made the following statement. This is a correction to the statement laid earlier with "I joined the UK delegation as one of the six reform facilitators" inserted into paragraph 2 and "where I drove development of text" inserted into...

My hon Friend the Minister of State (Chris Bryant MP) has today made the following statement.

The World Trade Organization’s 14^th Ministerial Conference (MC14) took place in Yaoundé, Cameroon between Thursday 26 March to Sunday 29 March 2026. I attended alongside the Secretary of State the Rt Hon Peter Kyle.

MC14 took...

My hon Friend the Minister of State (Chris Bryant MP) has today made the following statement.

The World Trade Organization’s 14^th Ministerial Conference (MC14) took place in Yaoundé, Cameroon between Thursday 26 March to Sunday 29 March 2026. I attended alongside the Secretary of State the Rt Hon Peter Kyle.

MC14 took...

The World Trade Organization’s 14^th Ministerial Conference (MC14) took place in Yaoundé, Cameroon between Thursday 26 March to Sunday 29 March 2026. I attended alongside the Secretary of State the Rt Hon Peter Kyle.

MC14 took place against a complex geopolitical backdrop and an uncertain global economic climate. The UK worked...

The World Trade Organization’s 14^th Ministerial Conference (MC14) took place in Yaoundé, Cameroon between Thursday 26 March to Sunday 29 March 2026. I attended alongside the Secretary of State the Rt Hon Peter Kyle.

MC14 took place against a complex geopolitical backdrop and an uncertain global economic climate. The UK worked...

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to support the World Trade Organisation; and what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the (a) level of global tariff barriers on the effectiveness of the rules-based international trading system and (b)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to support the World Trade Organisation; and what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the (a) level of global tariff barriers on the effectiveness of the rules-based international trading system and (b)...

A General Debate on the impact of import standards on the agricultural sector is scheduled for Thursday 22 January 2026. This Backbench Business Committee debate in the House of Commons chamber will be led by Sam Carling MP.

A General Debate on the impact of import standards on the agricultural sector is scheduled for Thursday 22 January 2026. This Backbench Business Committee debate in the House of Commons chamber will be led by Sam Carling MP.

Proposed changes would give the government power to initiate dumping, subsidy or safeguard investigations, aligning with other jurisdictions.

Proposed changes would give the government power to initiate dumping, subsidy or safeguard investigations, aligning with other jurisdictions.

To ask His Majesty's Government what advice the Attorney General provided about the proportionality and applicability to Northern Ireland under World Trade Organization rules of the generational smoking ban in the Tobacco and Vapes Bill, and the likelihood of a legal challenge at the World Trade Organization.

To ask His Majesty's Government what advice the Attorney General provided about the proportionality and applicability to Northern Ireland under World Trade Organization rules of the generational smoking ban in the Tobacco and Vapes Bill, and the likelihood of a legal challenge at the World Trade Organization.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to support UK participation in the WTO Joint Statement Initiative on e-commerce.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to support UK participation in the WTO Joint Statement Initiative on e-commerce.

Letter dated 02/12/2025 from Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill to Peers regarding questions raised during the Second Reading of the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Bill: WTO’s Article III, risk assessment on subsides dispute, UK Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) and relation with EU ETS, discussions with US, fuel providers and using crops as feedstock. 3p.

Letter dated 02/12/2025 from Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill to Peers regarding questions raised during the Second Reading of the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Bill: WTO’s Article III, risk assessment on subsides dispute, UK Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) and relation with EU ETS, discussions with US, fuel providers and using crops...

Lords question for short debate on what assessment they have made of the challenges presented to the international order by the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation following the recent summit held in Tianjin.

Lords question for short debate on what assessment they have made of the challenges presented to the international order by the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation following the recent summit held in Tianjin.

My Lords, there are moments which stick in your mind because they tell you that “something has changed”. Sometimes it is obvious, such as when the Brandenburg Gate was opened and the Berlin Wall fell, but at other times it takes a bit longer before it becomes clear just what...

My Lords, there are moments which stick in your mind because they tell you that “something has changed”. Sometimes it is obvious, such as when the Brandenburg Gate was opened and the Berlin Wall fell, but at other times it takes a bit longer before it becomes clear just what...

My Lords, we often talk about the way in which liberal democracy is in retreat in the part of the world that we have just been hearing about, particularly in Russia. I wonder whether we have not put that question back to front. The Russian state was founded in 882....

My Lords, we often talk about the way in which liberal democracy is in retreat in the part of the world that we have just been hearing about, particularly in Russia. I wonder whether we have not put that question back to front. The Russian state was founded in 882....

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My Lords, I am so sorry—my mistake.

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No worries. My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Stuart of Edgbaston, for securing this important debate and for her clear introduction, which rightly highlighted Francis Fukuyama, who was always bizarrely hubristic with his end-of-history thesis and indeed now looks very far into the past.

My contribution will have two...

No worries. My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Stuart of Edgbaston, for securing this important debate and for her clear introduction, which rightly highlighted Francis Fukuyama, who was always bizarrely hubristic with his end-of-history thesis and indeed now looks very far into the past.

My contribution will have two...

My Lords, I do not want to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett, in her discourse on the Ukraine war. My position is known on that. As for the rest of it, I have more sympathy with the spirit of the noble Baroness, Lady Stuart, than I have with that...

My Lords, I do not want to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett, in her discourse on the Ukraine war. My position is known on that. As for the rest of it, I have more sympathy with the spirit of the noble Baroness, Lady Stuart, than I have with that...