Lord McNicol of West Kilbride
Deputy Chairman of Committees
Labour Peer
Deputy Chairman of Committees
Labour Peer
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To ask His Majesty’s Government which of the world’s three largest economies—the United States of America, the European Union, and China—they will prioritise in seeking to improve trading relations.
My Lords, I thank the Minister for that Answer. Given that trade with the EU makes up around half our imports and exports, it is vital that FTAs with larger non-EU markets, such as the US, China and India, are advantageous to the UK economy. In recent departmental questions in the other place, Ministers seemed unable to put an estimated net value to any future trade deals that the Government...
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Entered the House of Lords on 21 June 2018
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