Trade Agreements: Maldives
(asked on 19th November 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask His Majesty's Government what safeguards for the marine environment they plan to include in any free trade agreement with the Maldives.
This question was answered on 27th November 2025
The previous Government, of which the noble lord was a member, launched a public consultation into a potential UK/Maldives FTA in 2023. The Department for Business and Trade has subsequently evaluated its Free Trade Agreement (FTA) programme and decided not to progress a UK-Maldives FTA at this time. It would be inappropriate to speculate on what might or might not be included in an FTA which we are not pursuing.