Overseas Trade: Human Rights

(asked on 25th October 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what additional steps the Government is taking to embed human rights within its trade policy.


Answered by
Greg Hands Portrait
Greg Hands
Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
This question was answered on 23rd November 2022

The UK is a leading advocate for human rights around the world and we remain committed to the promotion of universal human rights. This is usually undertaken separately to negotiations on free trade agreements.

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