Bishop of Chelmsford asks about efforts to ban trade relations with illegal Israeli settlements

The Bishop of Chelmsford received the following written answer on 12th October 2026:

The Lord Bishop of Chelmsford asked His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to ban UK trade in goods and services from illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, in light of the Israeli government’s publication of a tender for the E1 settlement project.

Lord Wood of Anfield (Lab, FDCO): I refer the Right Reverend Prelate to the [repeat] Statement I gave on 9 September: https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2026-09-09/debates/19FC5F6F-2B2F-4672-8BC9-DA0168534B4D/IsraelAndPalestine

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