Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether it is the Government’s policy to oppose the imposition of discriminatory transit charges on commercial shipping using international waterways.

The UK is fully committed to UNCLOS (United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea), which makes clear that the imposition of unilateral and/or discriminatory charges on vessels for transit through straits used for international navigation is unlawful.