Climate Change: Standards
Commons · Question 88456 · Tabled 5 Nov 2025 · Department for Business and Trade · Official record
Answered 12 Nov 2025
Question
Asked by Joe Morris
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of investor-state dispute settlement provisions on the UK's climate targets.
Answer
Answered by Chris Bryant, 12 Nov 2025
The UK is party to 78 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...