Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 40289
Foreign Investment: Dispute Resolution
Tabled: 21 March 2025
Answered: 27 March 2025
Question
Dr Simon Opher
Labour — Stroud
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for the Government's environmental policies of Investor-State Dispute Settlement mechanisms.
Answer
Mr Douglas AlexanderThe UK is party to 80 Bilateral Investment Treaties and the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership that contain Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS). ISDS provides an independent means to resolve disputes with states whe...
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