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registered interest false more like this
date less than 2023-09-18more like thismore than 2023-09-18
answering body
Department for Business and Trade more like this
answering dept id 214 more like this
answering dept short name Business and Trade more like this
answering dept sort name Business and Trade more like this
hansard heading Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership remove filter
house id 1 more like this
legislature
25259
pref label House of Commons more like this
question text To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to her Department's publication entitled UK-Canada Free Trade Agreement: The UK’s Strategic Approach, published 24 March 2022, for what reason does the UK's strategic approach (a) include an ambition to ensure the agreement does not contain an investor-state dispute settlement mechanism and (b) not commit to disapply such a mechanism with Canada as part of the UK’s accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership. more like this
tabling member constituency Hayes and Harlington more like this
tabling member printed
John McDonnell more like this
uin 199858 more like this
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is ministerial correction false more like this
date of answer less than 2023-10-19more like thismore than 2023-10-19
answer text <p>The UK will not be seeking to negotiate an investor state dispute mechanism (ISDS) in the UK-Canada FTA and will instead seek to consider alternative options for investment dispute resolution that are best suited to the bilateral relationship between the UK and Canada.</p><p> </p><p>In seeking accession to CPTPP, the UK committed to the agreement’s existing standards, including its provisions on investor protections backed by a modern and transparent ISDS mechanism. These features balance the need to protect UK investors accessing and operating in CPTPP markets and ensure that the Government can regulate in the public interest.</p> more like this
answering member constituency Wealden more like this
answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani more like this
question first answered
less than 2023-10-19T09:49:19.93Zmore like thismore than 2023-10-19T09:49:19.93Z
answering member
4460
label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani more like this
tabling member
178
label Biography information for John McDonnell more like this