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date	18/03/2024
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Department for Business and Trade: Legal Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what the total cost to the public purse was of legal (a) support and (b) representation to Ministers in (i) her Department and (ii) the predecessor Department in relation to their official conduct in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South East
tabling member printed	Pat McFadden
uin	19021
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2024 answer text <p>Such information is not centrally recorded or collated in the form requested. More generally, I would refer the hon. Member to the long-standing policies on legal expenditure, as set out recently by Cabinet Office Ministers on 12 March 20<ins class="ministerial">2</ins><del class="ministerial">0</del>4, Official Report, PQ 17709 and 12 March 2024, Official Report, House of Lords, Cols. 1901-1904.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 21/03/2024 16:35:13 question first ministerially corrected 25/03/2024 10:08:25 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani previous answer version 25256 answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	1587 label Biography information for Pat McFadden

1696852

registered interest
date	18/03/2024
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Import Controls: Occupied Territories
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment her Department has made of the legality of imports from illegal Israeli settlements.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
tabling member printed	David Linden
uin	19153
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2024 answer text <p>The UK’s position on settlements is clear: they are illegal under international law and undermine the prospect of a two-state solution.</p><p>Under the existing UK-Israel trade agreement, goods originating from illegal Israeli settlements are not entitled to tariff and trade preferences under either the agreement between the UK and Israel, <ins class="ministerial">n</ins>or the agreement between the UK and the Palestinian <ins class="ministerial">Authority</ins><del class="ministerial"> Liberation Organization</del>.</p><p><del class="ministerial">I can confirm that t</del><ins class="ministerial">T</ins>his will not change in the upgraded FTA with Israel. The UK will not compromise on any of our longstanding positions on the Middle East Peace Process throughout this negotiation, including with respect to settlements.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 26/03/2024 17:59:34 question first ministerially corrected 27/03/2024 10:35:16 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands previous answer version 26249 answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden