Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Geraint Davies (Labour and Co-operative Party), on Tuesday, 1 July 2014, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 71 members in total.

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TRANSATLANTIC TRADE AND INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP, DEMOCRACY, RIGHTS AND THE RULE OF LAW

That this House notes that the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership includes investor-state dispute settlements that are being designed in secret, so enabling multi-national companies to intimidate and sue governments for lost profits due to Government policies designed to protect the public as consumers or workers or to change the level of public ownership, that such settlements will be decided in private by arbitration panels, not in open court, that such actions and arrangements threaten to compromise the UK's established democracy, human rights and the rule of law and that the shared fruits of trade should not be at the expense of the social and economic justice that democracy demands; and therefore calls on the Government to ensure that all proposed arrangements are fully scrutinised by Parliament and that no arrangements are made which compromise established standards of democracy, human rights and the rule of law.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

202 

Session

2014-15

Other sponsors

Charles Kennedy

Elfyn Llwyd

Alan Meale

Sandra Osborne

Brian Binley

Subjects

Companies Human rights Trade North America

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk