Question follow-through · 40930
Trade Agreements: Israel
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department plans to exempt trade with the Occupied Palestinian Territories from the free trade agreement being negotiated with Israel.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 24 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 28 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 28 Mar 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department plans to exempt trade with the Occupied Palestinian Territories from the free trade agreement being negotiated with Israel.
28 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Mar 2025
Answer published
The government’s position is clear that Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories are illegal under international law Goods originating from illegal Israeli settlements are not entitled to tariff and trade preferences under either the ex...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Funerals
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