Foreign Investment: Dispute Resolution
Commons · Question 40289 · Tabled 21 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade · Official record
Answered 27 Mar 2025
Question
Asked by Simon Opher
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
Answered by Douglas Alexander, 27 Mar 2025
The 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...