Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 35527
Trade Agreements: NHS
Tabled: 4 March 2025
Answered: 12 March 2025
Question
Seamus Logan
Scottish National Party — Aberdeenshire North and Moray East
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to amend the Trade Act 2021 to prevent future international trade agreements from including provisions re
Answer
Mr Douglas AlexanderSection 2(5) of the Trade Act already ensures that international trade agreements, within the scope of the Act, cannot include provisions which are inconsistent with maintaining a UK publicly funded healthcare service.