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Baroness Hoey (Non-Afl)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 13 May 2025

Debate

Trade Negotiations

Contribution

My Lords, the Minister will know that not all these trade deals apply to Northern Ireland. Yesterday in the other place, the Secretary of State for Business said basically that that was because of the Belfast/Good Friday agreement and the Windsor Framework and we had to protect the Belfast/Good Friday agreement. Could the Minister give me exact detail of where it says in the Belfast/Good Friday agreement that businesses in Northern Ireland should be treated differently and that we should be left under the European Union’s court and rules? Would the Minister perhaps accept that we are getting a little bit tired of the Good Friday/Belfast agreement being used in so many different ways?

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