Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what plans his Department has to exclude imports from illegal settlements from future multilateral and bilateral trade deals.

The UK and Israel have a strong and important trading relationship. However, we do not recognise the Occupied Palestinian Territories as part of Israel and indeed it is not covered by the current EU-Israel Association Agreement which governs our trade with Israel.

We are looking across the board to ensure a smooth transition for existing EU trade agreements in the region, and that will include the EU-Israel Association Agreement as well as the Interim Association Agreement with the Palestinian Authority.