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Trade Agreements: India

Asked by Andrew GriffithConservativeTreasuryTabled Answered 16 October 2025UIN 81402

The question

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when negotiations on the double contribution convention with India will conclude.

Answered by Dan Tomlinson

In a side letter to the Comprehensive and Economic Trade Agreement (CETA), agreed in July 2025, the UK and India committed to concluding the negotiations to allow for the Double Contributions Convention to enter into force at the same time as the CETA.

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