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791014

	registered interest
	date	16/11/2017
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Foreign Affairs, whether he has had discussions with her US counterpart on that country's decision to add the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to its list of Specially Designated Global Terrorist groupings.
	tabling member constituency	Chipping Barnet
	tabling member printed	Theresa Villiers
	uin	113669
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2017 answer text <p>In addition to US sanctions, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is already subject to EU sanctions in its entirety. Furthermore, a large number of individuals and entities are also designated because of their support for, or links to, the IRGC. Listings fall under the EU's proliferation and human rights sanctions regimes relating to Iran, as well as under the EU Syria sanctions regime.</p><p>The UK – including during the Foreign Secretary’s recent visit to Washington – regularly talks to the US about a variety of issues related to Iran, including our commitment to keeping the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action and our concerns about Iran’s destabilising activities in the region.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 21/11/2017 16:12:35 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers

790959

	registered interest
	date	16/11/2017
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Iran: British Nationals Abroad
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to his Department's publication entitled Foreign Office Consular Data 2017, last updated on 15 November 2017, how many of the greater than five items of assistance in Tehran labelled as welfare pertained to the welfare or case status of detained British dual nationals.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	113622
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2017 answer text <p>​The Foreign and Commonwealth Office records &quot;welfare&quot; as a separate category of case in its published data. All items of assistance pertaining to detained British nationals are included in data on &quot;arrest/detention&quot;. Welfare cases typically cover issues such as homelessness, immigration issues and health issues that do not involve hospitalisation or detention.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 27/11/2017 16:54:44 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

790960

	registered interest
	date	16/11/2017
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Iran: British Nationals Abroad
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to his Department's publication entitled Foreign Office Consular Data 2017, last updated on 15 November 2017, how many of the 157 items of assistance in Tehran labelled as consular enquiries pertained to the welfare or case status of detained British dual nationals.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	113625
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2017 answer text <p>Our Consular Contact Centres (in Hong Kong, Malaga and Ottawa) are the Foreign &amp; Commonwealth Office's first line of response for enquiries. If an enquiry is related to an ongoing case from an individual known to the officer managing the case it is at the enquirer’s discretion whether to disclose the subject of the enquiry to the member of staff handling the first line enquiry. From January to October 2017 the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has received 157 enquiries relating to assistance, six of which the subject was disclosed as relating to detentions in Iran. Our contact centre data does not capture whether the subject of the enquiry is a dual national.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 27/11/2017 17:00:56 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

790962

	registered interest
	date	16/11/2017
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Iran: British Nationals Abroad
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to his Department's publication entitled Foreign Office Consular Data 2017, last updated on 15 November 2017, how many of the 12 items of assistance in Tehran labelled as fee bearing services resulted from assistance provided to detained British dual nationals.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	113624
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2017 answer text <p>The Foreign &amp; Commonwealth Office has not administered any fee bearing services related to arrest or detention cases in Tehran in 2017. The Foreign &amp; Commonwealth Office does not charge for delivering consular assistance, with the exception of emergency travel documents which are issued to replace a British passport for a specific journey in the case of loss, theft, damage or a passport being otherwise unavailable.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 27/11/2017 16:58:58 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

790958

	registered interest
	date	16/11/2017
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Iran: British Nationals Abroad
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether his Department plans to update section 9 of its document entitled Doing Business with Iran to emphasise the specific risks of British dual nationals in travelling to that country.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	113621
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2017 answer text <p>​The document in question is owned by the Department for International Trade. It is regularly reviewed and updated in consultation with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). The current version makes clear that the Iranian Government does not recognise dual nationality and that the British Embassy will be unable to offer consular assistance to dual nationals if they encounter difficulties. In addition, section 9.4 of the document states that the guidance should be read in conjunction with the FCO travel advice. This travel advice clearly sets out the risks presented to dual nationals travelling to Iran.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 23/11/2017 14:03:37 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

790954

	registered interest
	date	16/11/2017
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has set a date to meet the lawyers of Richard Ratcliffe to discuss the exercise of diplomatic protection.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	113588
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2017 answer text <p>​The Foreign Secretary met with Richard Ratcliffe on 15 November. He explained that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office was looking at the merits and risks of diplomatic protection and would keep him updated on our analysis.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 21/11/2017 16:08:27 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

790951

	registered interest
	date	16/11/2017
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Iran: Diplomatic Service
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether affiliation to the Iranian judiciary is a condition for translators to be included on his Department's list of translators and interpreters in Iran; and whether his Department plans to take steps to ensure that such affiliation does not compromise the impartiality of those translators.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	113672
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2017 answer text <p>​The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has standard criteria for the compilation of local service provider lists, including those of translators and interpreters. The criteria are global and not country specific. All translators and interpreters are asked to provide information on which local regulatory authority or body they are affiliated to. Affiliation to a particular authority or body is not a condition for inclusion on a list, but any information provided on affiliation is included in the list.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 21/11/2017 17:35:35 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

790965

	registered interest
	date	16/11/2017
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Russia: Subversion
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when his Department was made aware of Russian interference in UK elections.
	tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
	tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
	uin	113485
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2017 answer text <p>As the Prime Minister made clear in her Mansion House speech, Russia makes aggressive use of cyber capability to mount sustained campaigns of espionage and disruption. To date, we have not seen evidence of successful interference in UK elections. We take any allegations of interference in UK democratic processes by a foreign government extremely seriously.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 23/11/2017 16:16:04 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
	tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

790957

	registered interest
	date	16/11/2017
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Iran: British Nationals Abroad
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when his Department plans to next update the Human Rights Priority Country Status Report for Iran; and whether that update will include reports on human rights abuses of British dual nationals.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	113626
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2017 answer text <p>​The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) Annual Human Rights and Democracy Report for 2017 will include the next updates on the human rights situation in FCO’s thirty Human Rights Priority Countries, including Iran. It will be published in late spring or early summer of 2018. The report will provide an overview of the some of the work done by the Foreign and Commonwealth to protect the human rights of British nationals overseas. However, in line with our customary practice, the Annual Human Rights and Democracy Report will not mention individual consular cases.</p> answering member constituency Cities of London and Westminster answering member printed Mark Field question first answered 24/11/2017 14:37:02 answering member 1405 label Biography information for Mark Field
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

790964

	registered interest
	date	16/11/2017
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: Sanctions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he is taking to retain EU sanctions against the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in British law when the UK has left from the EU; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Riverside
	tabling member printed	Mrs Louise Ellman
	uin	113482
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2017 answer text <p>The British Government is putting to Parliament a Sanctions Bill which, if agreed, will allow the UK to continue implementing sanctions once we have left the EU.</p><p>We have not yet made decisions about the extent to which we will maintain current EU sanctions. This will depend both on political judgements closer to the time and on legal considerations once the Sanctions Bill becomes law. However we expect that the UK and EU will want to maintain a high degree of cooperation on sanctions in many cases.</p><p>The British Government will consider EU sanctions against the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps alongside the other existing EU sanctions as part of the sanctions transfer process.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 21/11/2017 15:32:11 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	484 label Biography information for Dame Louise Ellman