Speeches by Bryant.

“I thank my hon. Friend for standing up for the business in her constituency, and she is absolutely right. The Trade Remedies Authority is investigating, as she knows, and I urge industry to participate in that, although I cannot comment on the precise details of the investigation because it might eventually come to my …”

“I am happy to meet the hon. Member if she wants to take me through some of the specific issues in her constituency; I have done that for several hon. Members, and we had a roundtable last week to try to get the timelines down. Sometimes it is difficult. The median time in which we sort them out is 14 days, but if the h…”

“My hon. Friend makes a really good point by raising th4e example of London Fashion Week. She is quite right that lots of businesses in Northamptonshire are working in this field. One key thing we do through NEWGEN is to provide support to people—including, in fact, some of those she mentioned, such as Erdem and Simone …”

“There are a whole series of issues relating to hauliers where we have some concerns; I will ask Amanda to respond more fully in a moment. I have hauliers in my patch who have raised similar concerns. We are discussing the issue with Commissioner Šefčovič and his colleagues in the Commission. Another area that I know ha…”

“We have obviously had one gain already in relation to beef—I was licked a lot by some beef cattle the other day on a farm outside Dorking. The US produces a great deal more beef than we do, but I think our product is materially different. It is for a very specific market, and I hope it is going to do very well. The DEF…”

“Sorry, Chair. If I might, I think there is actually a role for the Select Committee in relation to this. If we want to win some arguments in the European Parliament, it may be that the Select Committee here might want to speak to them.”

“Yes, that’s right. He was adamant that he was going to make sure that, before the Act was published, it was going to be more sensible. I am very hopeful that he and the German Government will be yet more helpful over the next version, when it comes to going through committee and so on.”

“Poor old Elizabeth Barrett!”

“The draft that was published was, I think, not the version that was anticipated in December, and the draft that was anticipated in December would have excluded us from everything. That is why, notwithstanding the very significant concerns we have about the automotive sector, I was pleased last week to see the version t…”

“We have already agreed on some of the specific lines, and we do not think they are affected at all—for instance, the 0% on pharmaceuticals that I referred to, steel, automotives and the quota that has been agreed. There is the agreement on beef. We think all of those are settled parts of the agreement and we do not thi…”

“I might have to write to you, because although I read it all last week, it is not at the top of my mind. When I met with SMMT on Wednesday or Thursday—whichever day it was—the key point it was making to me was about access to fleet sales.”

“I am in a difficult position because I do not want to comment on the specifics of live negotiations, for obvious reasons. I do not want to negotiate via the Committee and into the public domain. I think these things are best done in a negotiating room, and that is what we are trying to do. I am, however, confident that…”

“I am very happy to. I am going to Brussels on Monday, I am going to Paris on Tuesday, and I think on Wednesday I am going to the Netherlands, as well, to meet members of the new Government there.”

“Yes. I do not think he was talking about our trading relationship. I am not a commentator on this; I am a player in this field, and my aim is to deliver the best possible deal that we can with the United States. We have already got the best deal of any country in the world in significant areas, such as 0% on pharmaceut…”

“I am told there are others making a different argument, and I am visiting Paris on Tuesday.”

“Yes, from the conversations that I have had with my counterparts. I think I am going to have to persuade them for 10 minutes and then they start with it; they say it before I do, because it is as damaging for them as it is for us. How many cars are made just in one country—the final thing? Hardly any, if any.”

“Sometimes negotiation ends up happening between people—well, it’s always between people, but personality is what ends up determining whether you get something over the line or not.”

“That is why I am very hopeful that we will win this argument.”

“I think the most important part of the argument is that this does damage to an awful lot of European businesses. That is the most important thing. I have said this repeatedly, and this is the argument that the Swedes made very convincingly just after the Secretary of State’s visit; there was an article in the FT by the…”

“I have two things that run through my mind. I am not doing most of the negotiation in relation to the United States of America—most of those conversations have been had by the Secretary of State or by our chief negotiator working under Kate’s team or with Varun Chandra—but I think it is exactly the same as any other di…”