Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make it his policy to withdraw the UK from the Energy Charter Treaty.

Contracting Parties to the ECT will decide whether to adopt the modernised Energy Charter Treaty at the Energy Charter Conference on 22 November, with decisions regarding Treaty ratification thereafter. The Government is closely monitoring all developments in the Energy Charter Treaty and taking these into account in its own interaction with the modernisation process.