Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 28 April 2023 to Question 182031 on the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, whether UK negotiators sought to disapply ISDS provisions in CPTPP with Canada and Brunei.

CPTPP's investment chapter provides important protections for investors, which it is in the UK’s interest to accept, including with both Brunei and Canada. The Government is clear that where we negotiate investment protection and ISDS provisions, we will not hinder our right to regulate in the public interest. This right is protected in CPTPP, and the Government also negotiated additional protections for our ability to regulate areas such as public services.