| Heading: |
Imports: Occupied Territories |
| Question ID: |
1808155 |
| UIN: |
56517 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-02 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5238 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Alex Ballinger
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| Asking Member handle: |
AlexBallingerMP
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@AlexBallingerMP
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what investigations his Department is conducting into goods originating from Israeli settlements within the Occupied Palestinian Territories being labelled as originating from within Israel’s pre-1967 |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-05 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
632 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Mr Douglas Alexander
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| Answering Member handle: |
D_G_Alexander
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@D_G_Alexander
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Answer text: |
The UK Government has a clear position that Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories are illegal under international law. Goods produced in these settlements are not entitled to benefit from preferential tariff treatment under the UK’s ... |
| Original answer text: |
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| Answering body ID: |
214 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Business and Trade |
| Tweeted: |
true |