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388089

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date	07/07/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Investment: Treaties
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of investor-state dispute settlement systems and the outcomes of such disputes on decisions about the provision of public services in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	5922
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2015 answer text <p>The UK has Bilateral Investment Treaties in force with 94 countries and has never faced a serious investor-state dispute claim.</p><p> </p><p>The UK Government regulates in a responsible manner – by not discriminating on the basis of nationality or expropriating assets without compensation – therefore the existence of investor-state dispute settlement systems doesn’t impact on decisions about public service provision in the UK.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 15/07/2015 15:39:09 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

387554

registered interest
date	03/07/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Investment: Treaties
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what proportion of investor-state dispute settlements which (a) the Government and (b) another UK public body has been involved in resulted in a (i) tribunal ruling in favour of the Government or public body, (ii) ruling in favour of an investor, (iii) settlement resulting in a cash payment from the Government or another public body and (iv) settlement resulting in a change of policy, regulation or law in each year since 1997.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	5579
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2015 answer text <p>Neither the Government nor any other UK public body have been involved in any investor-state dispute settlement claims that have either had a tribunal ruling or reached any settlement since 1997 under our entire network of bilateral and multilateral investment protection agreements.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 13/07/2015 15:53:12 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

387555

registered interest
date	03/07/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Investment: Treaties
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, which arbitration centres for investor-state dispute settlement the UK is subject to.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	5581
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2015 answer text <p>The UK is not subject to any centres for investor-state dispute settlement. However, we have included reference to a number of institutions related to international dispute resolution in our bilateral investment treaties: the Swedish Chamber of Commerce (SCC), the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), a part of the World Bank, and the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL). The SCC and ICSID can provide a venue and procedural rules for arbitral proceedings and UNCITRAL just provides procedural rules.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 13/07/2015 15:52:23 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

387556

registered interest
date	03/07/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Investment: Treaties
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what agreements which the UK is party to include an investor-state dispute settlement system as part of that agreement.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	5582
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2015 answer text <p>The UK is party to 94 Bilateral Investment Treaties and the Energy Charter Treaty, all of which include an investor-state dispute settlement mechanism. A list of the UK’s Bilateral Investment Treaties is available online (also including treaties terminated by South Africa and Bolivia) at <a href="http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130104161243/http:/www.fco.gov.uk/en/publications-and-documents/treaties/treaty-texts/ippas-investment-promotion/" target="_blank">http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130104161243/http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/publications-and-documents/treaties/treaty-texts/ippas-investment-promotion/</a>.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 13/07/2015 15:51:24 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

387557

registered interest
date	03/07/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Investment: Treaties
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, in how many investor-state dispute settlements (a) the Government and (b) other public bodies in the UK have been involved in each year since 1997.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	5580
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Government has been involved in one investor-state dispute settlement claim under our network of bilateral and multilateral investment protection treaties. We received notice of the claim in 2006 but the investor has not completed the procedural requirements for the claim to be heard by a tribunal. Other public bodies in the UK have never faced an investor-state dispute settlement claim.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 13/07/2015 15:50:26 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

387565

registered interest
date	03/07/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Trade Unions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the contribution of trades unions to the UK economy.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	5578
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2015 answer text <p>Trade unions have a constructive role to play in maintaining positive industrial relations. The British Social Attitudes Survey and the Workplace Employment Relations Survey provide information on how the population, employers and union members view the services and activities of Trade Unions. The Office for National Statistics publishes estimates of the approximate Gross Added Value for Trade Union activities as well as the number of disputes (and days lost to industrial action).</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 13/07/2015 11:55:34 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock