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Trade Agreements: Dispute Resolution

Commons · Question 89908 · Tabled 11 Nov 2025 · Department for Business and Trade · Official record

Answered 18 Nov 2025

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Asked by Martin Rhodes

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, who the parties are in the two active Investor-State Dispute Settlement cases against the UK.

Answer

Answered by Chris Bryant, 18 Nov 2025

The Government is a respondent in two active arbitrations, (1) Woodhouse Investment Pte Ltd and West Cumbria Mining (Holdings) Limited and; (2) Mr Mikhail Maratovich Fridman.The Government maintains that it has acted consistently with domestic and interna...