Foreign Investment: Dispute Resolution

(asked on 25th November 2024) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will initiative a review of UK treaties containing Investor-State Dispute Settlements.


Answered by
Douglas Alexander Portrait
Douglas Alexander
Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
This question was answered on 3rd December 2024

The UK is party to 83 Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) that contain investment protection and Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS). In 2022, these BITs covered at least £195 billion of UK investment overseas.

ISDS provides an independent means to resolve disputes with states where investors believe they have experienced arbitrary, discriminatory or unfair treatment or expropriation without adequate compensation.

The Government has no plans to review UK treaties containing ISDS.

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