Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have informed businesses operating in Israel and Palestine of their revised guidance on overseas business risk discouraging trade in illegal settlements.

The UK Trade and Investment-Foreign and Commonwealth Office Overseas Business Risk website is the forum through which HMG raises awareness of the key security and political risks which British businesses may face when operating abroad. Whenever asked by British businesses about settlements, we set out the UK's clear position on the illegality of Israeli settlements under international law, and share with them our advice as set out in the online guidance. The approach we take to disseminating the voluntary guidance with respect to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories is the same as that we take with respect to any of the other countries covered by the website.