Written Question·Treasury·UIN 77515

Imports: Occupied Territories

Tabled: 16 September 2025

Answered: 14 October 2025

Question

Andy McDonald

Labour — Middlesbrough and Thornaby East

To ask the Chancellor for the Exchequer, whether guidance is given to the food sector on potential criminal culpability in the importation of (a) goods and (b) services from the illegal settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

Answer

Dan Tomlinson

The UK Government has a clear position that Israeli settlements in Palestine are illegal under international law, and that goods produced in these settlements are not entitled to benefit from preferential tariff treatment under the UK’s current trade agre...

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