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Overseas Trade: Occupied Territories

Commons · Question 13407 · Tabled 25 Jun 2026 · Department for Business and Trade · Official record

Answered 1 Jul 2026

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Asked by Vikki Slade

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies on trade with illegal Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories of the UK's legal recognition of the State o

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Answered by Chris Bryant, 1 Jul 2026

The UK’s trade relations with the Palestinian Authority are governed by the UK-PA Interim Political, Trade and Partnership Agreement, which applies to the territory of the West Bank and Gaza. The UK recognition of Palestine is based on provisional 1967 bo...