| Heading: |
Trade Agreements: Dispute Resolution |
| Question ID: |
1781248 |
| UIN: |
HL5468 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-04 |
| Asking Member ID: |
1934 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer
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| Asking Member handle: |
rights4all
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@rights4all
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the effect of investor state dispute settlements on a country's ability to invest in its Sustainable Development Goals. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-03-24 |
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false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
5373 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Baroness Gustafsson
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| Answering Member handle: |
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Baroness Gustafsson
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| Answer text: |
The UK is party to 81 Bilateral Investment Treaties and the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership that contain Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS).ISDS provides an independent means to resolve disputes with states wher... |
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| Answering body ID: |
214 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Business and Trade |
| Tweeted: |
true |