International Agreements Committee

Lords select committee, since 23 April 2020. Its page on the Parliament website.

The Committee scrutinises all treaties subject to ratification that are laid before Parliament under the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 and considers other issues relating to the negotiation, conclusion and implementation of international agreements.

Inquiries

• United Nations Industrial Development Organization (8 September 2026)
• UK-Moldova Readmissions Agreement (16 July 2026)
• Convention on the Manipulation of Sports Competitions (30 June 2026)
• UK-Poland Defence and Security Partnership (17 June 2026 to 14 October 2026)
• Trade and the Commonwealth (29 May 2026)
• Convention establishing an International Claims Commission for Ukraine (14 May 2026)
• Trade in a turbulent world: how should the UK deploy its trade instruments? (19 March 2026)
• Secretary of State for Business and Trade (20 February 2026)
• UK-France Prevention of Dangerous Journeys Treaty: Ministerial evidence session (10 December 2025)
• UK-India Free Trade Agreement (9 September 2025)
• General Terms for the UK-US Economic Prosperity Deal (1 July 2025)
• Agreement on the Chagos Archipelago (9 June 2025 to 3 July 2025)
• Implications of the transfer of sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago (4 June 2025 to 9 November 2025)
• Ukraine 100 year partnership agreement (25 February 2025 to 22 April 2025)
• UK accession to US-Bahrain Comprehensive Security Integration and Prosperity Agreement (14 January 2025)
• World Trade Organization (7 November 2024)
• Amendment to UK-US Mutual Defence Agreement (30 September 2024)
• UK-US-Aus Agreement for Cooperation related to Naval Nuclear Propulsion (30 September 2024)
• Review of treaty scrutiny (15 May 2024 to 16 March 2026)
• Data and digital trade (1 May 2024 to 13 February 2025)
• Global Combat Air Programme – International Government Organisation (21 March 2024)
• UK-Swiss Financial Services Agreement (26 January 2024 to 7 January 2025)
• UK-Rwanda asylum Agreement (7 December 2023 to 15 May 2024)
• Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) Agreement (13 November 2023 to 19 March 2024)
• UK accession to Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) (25 July 2023 to 8 May 2024)
• UK-Swiss Professional Qualifications Agreement (19 July 2023 to 20 September 2023)
• Ministerial evidence (11 July 2022)
• UK-Rwanda Memorandum of Understanding (10 June 2022 to 13 January 2023)
• Singapore Digital Economy Agreement (1 April 2022 to 10 November 2023)
• UK-India trade negotiations (28 January 2022 to 6 September 2022)
• Working Practices: one year on (23 June 2021 to 20 May 2022)
• Investment protection and ISDS (17 May 2021 to 19 July 2021)
• UK-Turkey Free Trade Agreement (18 March 2021 to 26 March 2021)
• UK-Canada Trade Continuity Agreement (27 January 2021 to 29 January 2021)
• UK-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (27 January 2021 to 29 January 2021)
• Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) (21 January 2021 to 1 February 2022)
• Istanbul Convention (20 January 2021 to 7 July 2022)
• Environment, climate and international trade (14 January 2021 to 5 March 2021)
• UK-Norway Fisheries Framework Agreement (20 October 2020 to 19 November 2020)
• General questions on trade negotiations (29 September 2020 to 23 May 2022)
• UK-New Zealand trade negotiations (16 July 2020 to 10 November 2023)
• UK-Australia trade negotiations (16 July 2020 to 10 November 2023)
• UK-Japan trade negotiations (25 June 2020 to 3 February 2021)
• UK-US trade negotiations (8 June 2020 to 10 November 2023)
• Treaty scrutiny: working practices (11 May 2020 to 25 September 2020)

Organisations it has heard from most

• Department for International Trade (8)
• Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (7)
• Department for Business and Trade (6)
• Chatham House (4)
• National Farmers Union (4)
• techUK (4)
• University of Sussex (4)
• Australian High Commission (3)
• Ernst & Young LLP (3)
• Ministry of Defence (3)
• Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) (3)
• University of Oxford (3)
• British Chambers of Commerce (2)
• Federation of Small Businesses (2)
• Flint Global (2)