Question follow-through · 86566
Trade Agreements: Dispute Resolution
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what estimate he has made of the UK's potential financial exposure to Investor-State Dispute Settlement claims.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 29 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 3 Nov 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what estimate he has made of the UK's potential financial exposure to Investor-State Dispute Settlement claims.
3 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Nov 2025
Answer published
Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) provides an independent means for investors to resolve disputes with states where they believe they have experienced arbitrary, discriminatory, or unfair treatment or expropriation without compensation. The Governm...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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