The UK Government's Trade Bill

Part of 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance – in the Senedd at 1:30 pm on 6 December 2017.

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Photo of Mick Antoniw Mick Antoniw Labour 1:30, 6 December 2017

Thank you for that answer, Cabinet Secretary. You may recall we had quite a lot of discussion, pre referendum, on the issue of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and external trade agreements, and the implications for Welsh procurement, the Welsh national health service, and so on. And it appears that, although the red rag was being proposed that, if we didn't leave the European Union, we'd be presented with an EU TTIP, it looks that the Trade Bill now has the implications of imposing a UK TTIP on Wales, with very little scrutiny, using the royal prerogative, with only a certain level of governmental scrutiny on it. Do you agree with me that the Bill, as it's drawn at the moment, is not something we can give legislative consent to, and do you also share some of the concerns I have about the way this Bill can abuse some of the policies that we are supporting within Wales?