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Select Committee
UK India Business Council, National Farmers Union (NFU), Coombe Castle, and Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board

Oral Evidence Feb. 06 2024

Inquiry: UK trade policy: food and agriculture
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee (Department: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

Found: They are no longer seen as the conventional norm of doing trade agreements or trade diplomacy.

Select Committee
Edge Hill University, University of Leeds, and Institute of Economic Affairs

Oral Evidence Feb. 06 2024

Inquiry: UK trade policy: food and agriculture
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee (Department: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

Found: They are no longer seen as the conventional norm of doing trade agreements or trade diplomacy.

Scottish Parliament Debate - Main Chamber
Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee Report: “How Devolution is Changing Post-EU” - Tue 09 Jan 2024

Mentions:
1: Stewart, Alexander (Con - Mid Scotland and Fife) resolution provides a new way of addressing them. - Speech Link
2: Harper, Emma (SNP - South Scotland) In Scotland, we have no say over trade agreements—the Scottish Parliament has no input or control, and - Speech Link
3: McKelvie, Christina (SNP - Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse) resolution mechanisms. - Speech Link
4: Cameron, Donald (Con - Highlands and Islands) He noted that, in the new intergovernmental relations, the dispute resolution process has not been tested.Neil - Speech Link

Draft Secondary Legislation
The Windsor Framework (Constitutional Status of Northern Ireland) Regulations 2024

Published - Wednesday 31st January 2024

Department: Northern Ireland Office

These Regulations make provision about the Windsor Framework and related constitutional matters.

Found: Parliament under paragraph 8F(1) of Schedule 7 to the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, for approval by resolution

Departmental Publication (Policy paper)
Northern Ireland Office

Jan. 31 2024

Source Page: Safeguarding the Union
Document: The Windsor Framework (Constitutional Status of Northern Ireland) Regulations 2024 (PDF)

Found: paragraph 8F(1) of Schedule 7 to the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, for approval by resolution

Secondary Legislation

Laid - 31 Jan 2024 In Force 20 Feb 2024

Windsor Framework (Constitutional Status of Northern Ireland) Regulations 2024
Department: Northern Ireland Office
Draft affirmative
Parliamentary Status - Legislation

These Regulations make provision about the Windsor Framework and related constitutional matters.

Found: Parliament under paragraph 8F(1) of Schedule 7 to the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, for approval by resolution

Scottish Parliament Select Committee
Letter from the Convener to the Cabinet Secretary for the Constitution, External Affairs and Culture in relation to post-EU scrutiny, 30 January 2024
 Post-EU Scrutiny

Correspondence Jan. 30 2024

Inquiry: How devolution is changing post EU
Inquiry Status: Open
Committee: Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee

Found: to working arrangements with the Scottish Government in relation to both the scrutiny of the UK EU Trade

Commons Chamber
Post Office Horizon Scandal - Wed 10 Jan 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: David Davis (Con - Haltemprice and Howden) (Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade if she will make a statement - Speech Link
2: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) It is a process of alternative dispute resolution. - Speech Link
3: Maria Miller (Con - Basingstoke) in all severance agreements? - Speech Link
4: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) Member is wrong to talk about the cases being litigated against; the process is done by dispute resolution - Speech Link

Parliamentary Research
Trade unions and industrial relations - CBP-9785
Jan. 05 2024

Found: Trade unions and industrial relations

Written Question
Trade Agreements: Dispute Resolution
Monday 11th March 2024

Asked by: Wendy Chamberlain (Liberal Democrat - North East Fife)

Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to pages 3-5 paragraphs 1-9 of the report by UN Special Rapporteur entitled Paying polluters: the catastrophic consequences of investor-State dispute settlement for climate and environment action and human rights, published on 13 July 2023, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of not including the investor state dispute settlement in future trade agreements.

Answered by Nusrat Ghani - Minister of State (Minister for Europe)

Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) is an effective means of resolving investment disputes. The UK has investment agreements containing ISDS with around 90 trading partners. There has not been a successful ISDS claim brought against the UK, nor does ISDS hinder our right to regulate in the public interest, including in areas such as the environment and human rights. This right is recognised in international law.

Where the UK negotiates ISDS, in line with modern international best practice, it ensures the mechanism delivers fair outcomes of disputes, has independent arbitrators bound by high ethical standards, and that proceedings are transparent.