Speeches by Bryant.

“We are not minimising it. Obviously, at some point we would want to make sure there are amendments to the Act before it ends up finally going through its trilogy of processes.”

“Some of them are inevitable areas in which there might be red lines on either side of the conversation. The classic instance, which has been referred to many, many times in the public domain, is what tends to be characterised as hormonal beef and chlorinated chicken and so on. We have made it absolutely clear from the …”

“It is all third-party—”

“I do not accept that. I have not had any indication, and nor has anybody in the Department, from anybody from the United States of America that the process that we are engaged in at the moment, of trying to secure the best economic prosperity deal for the UK, is not on track.”

“Government procurement agreement, sorry. That element is helpful, and I was pleased to see the version that got published, but in relation to automotives, we are in a more difficult position. I am determined to win this. Since we have left the European Union, I think sometimes the UK has thought that a negotiation with…”

“Okay.”

“If you had asked me before Christmas about where I thought Made in Europe was going to end up, I was very worried that we would be in a much worse place than we are now. For instance, the element that refers to the general procurement agreement—”

“But in relation to an aeroplane, for instance, what is a European aeroplane? When any of the European countries go round the world trying to persuade countries to buy Airbus, 30% of the aeroplane is likely to be made in the UK, because the wings will have been here or the engines may have been made by Rolls-Royce here …”

“I am not saying that we are making contributions to the cohesion funds, just to be clear. I am saying that when we join, for instance, Erasmus+, if there are administrative costs, we would be sharing part of that cost.”

“I have not seen a request for money in any shape or form.”

“If we have anything different from DSIT, we will let the Committee know.”

“I have not seen either a or b, actually.”

“I certainly have not been to one. Kate?”

“Nor do I, for two reasons. First, there is an element of speculation about where we might end up at the end of negotiations. Secondly, as I said, I think the only firm principle that I have is that where we are signing up to a scheme that has administrative costs, it would only be fair for us to bear our fair share of …”

“Amanda?”

“It is certainly true that we have discussions. I myself have not seen those two things connected, and I do not think that we have, but Kate will answer in a moment. It is certainly true that one of the things that the US has regularly said, in Senate hearings and so on, is that it wants us to dismantle some of what it …”

“I do not think we have publicly said either yea or nay.”

“No, I do not accept that. That is certainly not the view when I have spoken to my German counterpart, my—I could go through a list, and I am quite happy to provide the list if that is something that is useful to you, of other countries that we have spoken to.”

“Where we are signing up to a scheme that has some administrative costs, of course, we accept the need that we would have to pay some share of that.”

“I would say that work is ongoing on chunks of it. I note that the US has said that it is paused, but there are substantial chunks of it that are still proceeding.”