Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what her Department's policy is on negotiating a geographically explicit territorial clause in any free trade agreement with Israel.

The UK does not recognise the Occupied Palestinian Territories as part of Israel.

Under the existing UK-Israel trade agreement, goods originating from illegal Israeli settlements are not entitled to tariff and trade preferences under either the agreement between the UK and Israel, nor the agreement between the UK and the Palestinian Authority.

The Government can confirm that this will not change in the upgraded Free Trade Agreement.