Written questions

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...