Parliamentary schedule for Wednesday June 11
We will be covering the House of Commons and House of Lords throughout the day.
All timings approximate and subject to business.
House of Commons:1130 Wales questions1200 Prime Minister's Questions1230 Statement on Spending Review 20251330 Ten-Minute Rule motion on positioning of letterboxes1340 Sustainable Aviation Fuel Bill (second reading)An adjournment debate on British Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme
Westminster Hall:0930 Impact of the space industry on the economy1100 Sentencing for the theft of tool of trade1430 Child poverty and no recourse to public funds1600 Outdoor education1630 NHS funding in the South West
House of Lords:1430 Oral questions1520 Armed Forces Commissioner Bill – consideration of Commons amendments/reasonsHolocaust Memorial Bill – report stage
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Britain ready to implement US tariff deal, trade minister says
LONDON, June 12 (Reuters) - Britain is ready to implement its side of a tariff deal with the United States and is hopeful for a proclamation from U.S. President Donald Trump to put the agreement into effect in the coming days, trade minister Jonathan Reynolds said on Thursday. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Trump on May 8 agreed to reduce tariffs on UK imports of cars and steel to the U.S., with Britain agreeing to lower tariffs on beef and ethanol, but implementation of the deal has been delayed. Reynolds met U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on Tuesday and discussed the implementation of the deal. Asked on Thursday if there would be an update by the end of the week, Reynolds said he was "very hopeful". "We're ready to go, and as soon as the president and the White House are ready to go on their side, we'll implement (our) part of the deal," Reynolds told reporters. Reynolds said he would issue a government order known as a statutory instrument to implement the changes to reciprocal tariffs. Officials said that the update on implementation was likely to come early next week. One of the details to be ironed out before the deal can be implemented is steel quotas. Reynolds added that he wanted to make sure the tariff reductions applied to every bit of the UK steel industry, as the U.S. finalises quotas that will place supply chain requirements on British steel exports to the United States. The bioethanol industry has warned its future is under threat, with Associated British Foods (ABF.L), opens new tab deciding on the fate of a plant later this month. Reynolds acknowledged the deal could increase competition but said the industry was already struggling. "We are very sensitive to the ethanol issue... (but) they're losing a lot of money already," Reynolds said, adding regulatory tweaks could help, but that for financial support: "any intervention I make has to be a clear route to profitability." "So there are much wider issues for these partners than just the U.S. trade deal."
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- BBC News
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The Guardian
an hour ago
- The Guardian
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The United States is poised to start lowering its tariffs on some British products within days, the UK trade secretary has indicated. Jonathan Reynolds told reporters the US was expected to slash its tariffs on British cars 'very soon' after 'a very significant week' of talks. Reynolds and Keir Starmer met Howard Lutnick, the US commerce secretary, for talks on Tuesday evening where they raised the implementation of the US-UK trade deal. Reynolds said: 'Secretary Lutnick and I, and the prime minister, talked specifically about the execution of the automotive tariff reduction … which is part of our deal. I'm hoping to be able to update you all on that very soon.' Asked whether he expected the tariff reductions to begin this week, he said: 'I'm very hopeful. It was a specific area of conversation on Tuesday in that bilateral meeting. We are ready to go on our side … as soon as the president and White House are able to on their side.' After the meeting Lutnick posted on X that trade quotas on British cars and American beef and ethanol would be implemented 'within days'. Peter Mandelson, the UK ambassador to Washington, raised the implementation of the deal again at a meeting with Donald Trump on Wednesday. 'I assured the president that our markets were ready to receive new quotas of US goods and that the UK looked forward to the deal's swift implementation,' Mandelson said in a statement after the meeting. Having negotiated trade agreements with the US, the EU and India, ministers are focused on finalising a £1.6bn deal with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The Guardian reported last month that the deal, which will boost trade with countries including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, was nearing completion and was likely to draw backlash over human rights and modern slavery concerns. Reynolds confirmed that the deal with the GCC would not contain legally binding commitments on labour or environmental standards but said the UK needed to strike agreements with countries 'different to ourselves'. 'There will be chapters in that agreement, they've already been negotiated on environmental standards, on labour standards. They're not legally binding, you don't have that in trade deals, but it's important you have that ethos and that approach reflected,' he said. 'What this country needs to be is the best connector market in the world and that will require, after leaving the European Union, trade agreements with some places that are not western democracies. 'We've got to recognise that not only is there a commercial interest in us being involved in those places, British engagement is positive. There are countries in the Gulf who are different to ourselves, but have been the areas where there's been some more significant change in the last decade.' Reynolds also shared an anecdote about his first WhatsApp message to Lutnick, which was sent shortly after he was confirmed as US commerce secretary in February. 'Then begins what I can only describe as a cross-Whitehall process to write, collectively with collective agreement, a WhatsApp message to the United States. Now that was as bad as it sounds – literally something no human being would send or be able to understand,' he said. 'The whole of the British state at its finest and most efficient way, gets together, starts agreeing on every sentence, every word, and it comes through to me. By this time, it's about 10 o'clock at night, and Claire [Reynolds] and I are driving back to Stalybridge together. I get the message, and I think it needs a little bit of work … but I go, the whole of the government's been engaged in this so fair enough, we send it off.' 'Howard just rings me straight back … and he says, 'Johnny, I got your message. I don't know what it means.'
