Question follow-through · 18798
Overseas Investment: Colombia
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the Investor-State Dispute Settlement provisions of the UK/Colombia: Bilateral Agreement for the Promotion and Protection of Investments on the
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 9 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 11 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 17 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the Investor-State Dispute Settlement provisions of the UK/Colombia: Bilateral Agreement for the Promotion and Protection of Investments on the
11 Dec 2024
Target answer date
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17 Dec 2024
Answer published
I refer the Hon. Member for North Herefordshire to my response to Question 12968 on 12th November 2024.
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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