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  Trade Bill - International Trade Agreements and Treaties
  
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  @ MP voted aye to require international trade agreements to be consistent with maintaining the NHS and the UK's levels of legal protection for human, animal or plant life or health, the environment, employment and labour, data and children and vulnerable adults online.
  @ MP voted no not to require international trade agreements to be consistent with maintaining the NHS and the UK's levels of legal protection for human, animal or plant life or health, the environment, employment and labour, data and children and vulnerable adults online.
  
  The majority of MPs voted to require international trade agreements to be consistent with maintaining the United Kingdom's publicly-funded clinical healthcare services and maintaining the United Kingdom's levels of legal protection for human, animal or plant life or health, the environment, employment and labour, data and children and vulnerable adults online.
  
  MPs were considering the Trade Bill.[1][2] 
  
  
  The amendments supported by the majority of MPs in this vote were:
  
  :Amendments (a) to (c) proposed in lieu of Lords amendment 6B
  
  Amendments (a) to (c) stated:
  
  :(a)
  :Page 2, line 23, at end insertâ
  :â(4A) If regulations under subsection (1) contain provision about healthcare services, the provision must be consistent with maintaining UK publicly-funded clinical healthcare services.
  :(4B) If regulations under subsection (1) contain provision in any of the areas listed in subsection (4C), the provision must be consistent with maintaining UK levels of statutory protection in that area. (4C) The areas referred to in subsection (4B) areâ 
  :(a) the protection of human, animal or plant life or health;
  :(b) animal welfare;
  :(c) environmental protection;
  :(d) employment and labour;
  :(e) data protection;
  :(f) the protection of children and vulnerable adults online.
  
  This impacted Clause 2 of the Bill[4] and required regulations implementing international trade agreements to be consistent with maintaining UK publicly-funded clinical healthcare services and maintaining UK legal protection for human, animal or plant life or health, the environment, employment and labour, data and children and vulnerable adults online.
  
  :(b)
  :Page 2, line 41, at end insertâ
  :â(9) In this sectionâ âUK publicly-funded clinical healthcare servicesâ means publicly-funded clinical healthcare services provided in the United Kingdom, or in the part of the United Kingdom in which the regulations have effect, on the date on which a draft of the regulations is laid;
  :âUK levels of statutory protectionâ means levels of protection provided by or underâ
  :(a) primary legislation,
  :(b) subordinate legislation, or
  :(c) retained direct EU legislation, which has effect in the United Kingdom, or in the part of the United Kingdom in which the regulations have effect, on the date on which a draft of the regulations is laid.â
  
  This provides definitions of terms used in amendment (a)
  
  :(c)
  :Page 3, line 40, at end insertâ
  :â(2A) In this Part a reference to a draft of regulations being laid is a reference to a draft of the regulations, or a draft of the instrument containing the regulations, being laid beforeâ
  :(a) each House of Parliament, in the case of regulations to which paragraph 4(1) or 5 of Schedule 2 applies;
  :(b) the Scottish Parliament, in the case of regulations to which paragraph 4(2) of Schedule 2 applies;
  :(c) Senedd Cymru, in the case of regulations to which paragraph 4(3) of Schedule 2 applies;
  :(d) the Northern Ireland Assembly, in the case of regulations to which paragraph 4(4) of Schedule 2 applies.â
  
  This impacts Clause 4 of the Bill[4] which covers interpretation and relates to the interpretation of a term used in amendment (b).  
   
  * [1] [https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/2729 Parliament's webpage on the Trade Bill], Parliament.uk
  * [2] [https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/58-01/0239/en/200239en.pdf Explanatory notes to the Trade Bill, 18 January 2021], Parliament.uk
  * [3] [https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/58-01/0252/amend/trade_day_cclm_0208.pdf Amendment paper for consideration of the Trade Bill, 9 February 2021], Parliament.uk
  * [4] [https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/58-01/0120/cbill_2019-20210120_en_2.htm#pt1-l1g1 Trade Bill as of 21 July 2021], Parliament.uk
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