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The Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill was a proposed Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom introduced by the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities,
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, on 19 June 2023 in the 2022-23 Session of Parliament and carried-over to the 2023-24 Session. It was part of a response to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement by the UK Government to promote community cohesion and to ban public bodies from
boycott A boycott is an act of nonviolent, voluntary abstention from a product, person, organization, or country as an expression of protest. It is usually for moral, social, political, or environmental reasons. The purpose of a boycott is to inflict som ...
ing foreign countries. It was a manifesto commitment of the
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in their 2019 election manifesto.


Parliamentary passage

The Bill passed the House of Commons on 10 January 2024 and was introduced by the Minister of State at the Cabinet Office,
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, to the House of Lords on 11 January 2024. The Bill was lost in the wash-up period for the 2024 general election, but was at
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in the Lords at this time.


References

{{reflist Proposed laws of the United Kingdom Opposition to Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Israel–United Kingdom relations 2023 in British politics