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International Trade Committee Oral evidence: UK Freeports, HC 258 Wednesday 7 October 2020 Ordered by the House of Commons to be published on 7 October 2020. Watch the meeting Members present: Angus Brendan MacNeil (Chair); Mark Garnier; Mark Menzies; Taiwo Owatemi; Lloyd Russell-Moyle; Martin Vickers; Mick Whitley; Craig Williams. Questions 166 - 196 Witnesses II: Aidan McMahon, Deputy Director, Strategic Policy Division, Department of Finance, Northern Ireland Executive; Ivan McKee MSP, Minister for Trade, Investment and Innovation, Scottish Government; and Rebecca Evans MS, Minister for Finance and Trefnydd, Welsh Government. Examination of Witnesses Witnesses: Aidan McMahon, Ivan McKee and Rebecca Evans. Q166 Chair: We now move to our second panel. Thank you for joining us. Again a very illustrious panel. This is from the three Governments in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. We have Aidan McMahon, Ivan McKee and Rebecca Evans, and I will let you all introduce yourselves in your own terms. Far be it from me to put words in anybody’s mouth here. Aidan McMahon: My name is Aidan McMahon, deputy director of the strategic policy division in the Department of Finance. My Minister leads and co-ordinates on behalf of the Executive in relation to the freeports policy. Thanks for the invite today. I would like to offer my Minister’s apologies for not being able to make the session. Chair: Thank you, apology accepted. Ivan McKee, who I might have met once or twice in the past. Ivan McKee: Feasgar math, Chair. Good afternoon. It is good to be here, and I am looking forward to talking to your Committee.
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