Parliamentary Activity - Gareth Thomas MP

Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-pacific Partnership

Department for International Trade

Gareth Thomas received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether she is seeking side letters to enable the UK to derogate from elements of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for...

Rivers: Boats

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Gareth Thomas received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 23 June 2020 to Question 59339, whether there is not a statute or other legal restriction which...

Business: Coronavirus

Gareth Thomas received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to support businesses unable to access Government schemes such as the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan due to...

High Rise Flats: Insulation

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Gareth Thomas received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent discussions he has had with the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors on the availability of fire...

Mortgages

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Gareth Thomas received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when he plans to hold a roundtable meeting with mortgage lenders to discuss mortgage valuations on properties under...

Visas: Asia

Gareth Thomas received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to extend the two-year multiple entry visa to (a) Chinese and (b) Indian nationals; and if she will make a statement.

UK participation in EU and EEA organisations

Gareth Thomas made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

Although it has been useful to hear the reassurance that the Minister has attempted to provide, we still think that seeking membership of those four specific agencies makes sense. I intend to...

UK participation in EU and EEA organisations

Gareth Thomas made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. We have left the European Union and await the oven-ready Brexit deal that the Prime Minister promised the British people in December—it...

New clause 15

Gareth Thomas made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I have listened to what the Minister has said. He will understand that we remain concerned that this provision was put in the Bill by the Government on Report in the Commons, and it has been...

New clause 15

Gareth Thomas made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I beg to move, That the Clause be read a Second time. I rise briefly to suggest to the Committee that once a free trade agreement has been signed in the future, it makes sense to have a point at...

International trade agreements: public health services

Gareth Thomas made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

Given the extra protections that new clause 12 would lock into law to keep the NHS safe from future trade agreements’ effectively pushing higher pharmaceutical prices or further...

Import of agricultural goods after IP completion day

Gareth Thomas made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

For the record and for the avoidance of doubt, will the Minister confirm that he can see no way in which chlorinated chicken from the US will be allowed to be sold in British stores?

Import of agricultural goods after IP completion day

Gareth Thomas made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

Further to the intervention by the hon. Member for South Ribble, my hon. Friend will be more than aware that a UK-Canada agreement is very much within the scope of the Bill. The Canadians have...

Import of agricultural goods after IP completion day

Gareth Thomas made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

Has my hon. Friend has seen the representations to the Committee from the British Poultry Council? That makes it very clear that the UK has multiple pieces of national legislation aimed at...

The Trade Remedies Authority

Gareth Thomas made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

The Minister is absolutely right. We need a functioning TRA and we need a functioning trade remedies system. However, decisions that the TRA makes can be challenged and taken up to the WTO. As he...

The Trade Remedies Authority

Gareth Thomas made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I hesitate to test my hon. Friend’s patience. Were I to catch your eye, Sir Graham, when schedule 5, on staff transfer schemes, is being debated, I would be interested to explore the scope...

Protective Clothing: Imports

Department of Health and Social Care

Gareth Thomas received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish a list of the (a) Chinese and (b) Indian companies selling medical (i) surgical gowns, (ii) masks and (iii) other...

The Trade Remedies Authority

Gareth Thomas made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

Were I involved in such a parliamentary scrutiny process for the putative chair of the TRA, I would want to know, as I hope my hon. Friend would, the attitude of the chair to the EU-led...

The Trade Remedies Authority

Gareth Thomas made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

Another concern about trade remedies that it would be useful for Parliament to raise with the chair of the TRA is the chair’s attitude to the international dispute resolution process,...

The Trade Remedies Authority

Gareth Thomas made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

One of the issues that Parliament would surely want to scrutinise is the role of the chair of the TRA in the appointment of the other board members. Some of the evidence presented to us makes...