Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 6:11 pm on 4 December 2019.
There is a really interesting example that's already come up on the committee, so ably chaired by David Rees, which is the negotiation, or the re-negotiation, of the UK-Korea trade deal, compared to the previous EU-Korea trade deal. In the EU trade deals, it has become common practice to put as part of the legally binding agreement human rights. It is common practice. In the UK-Korea agreement, it has been downgraded to a part of the written protocol that accompanies it. Now, on that basis, it is imperative that we do actually engage on devolved issues, which include well-being and future generations policy frameworks, so we can tell UK Ministers on no account do they downgrade human rights obligations when this could beggar people on the far side of the world when we are taking products and services from them.