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1178476

	registered interest
	date	13/02/2020
	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	UK Mission to the European Union
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate he has made of the number of civil servants based in the UK Mission to the EU in Brussels in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Arfon
	tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
	uin	1879
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2020 answer text <p>The UK Mission to the European Union (UKMis Brussels) currently employs around 180 people, comprising both permanent civil servants from multiple Government Departments and locally recruited staff. We keep staffing under regular review to ensure it is appropriate to deliver HMG objectives including supporting negotiations on the future UK-EU relationship.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 24/02/2020 17:01:17 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
	tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

1191122

	registered interest
	date	28/04/2020
	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	Greece: Asylum
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his Greek counterpart on the humanitarian situation of migrants along the Greek-Turkish border.
	tabling member constituency	Arfon
	tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
	uin	40997
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2020 answer text <p>The British Government remains committed to supporting Greek efforts to manage migration effectively. We regularly discuss our concerns with Greek ministers and senior officials, as well as our Turkish counterparts. The Foreign Secretary spoke to the Greek Foreign Minister about the issue of migrants on the Greece/Turkey border on 18 March. On 22 April, the UK Immigration Compliance Minister and Greece's Alternate Migration Minister signed a bilateral migration action plan to reaffirm our commitment to cooperation. The Plan covers joint work to tackle organised immigration crime; sharing of expertise on asylum processing and migrant returns; deployment of a Border Force search and rescue cutter to the Aegean; facilitation of family reunification of unaccompanied asylum seeking children; and establishment of a strategic migration dialogue.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 04/05/2020 10:41:37 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
	tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

1191123

	registered interest
	date	28/04/2020
	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	Turkey: Asylum
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his Turkish counterpart on the humanitarian situation of migrants along the Greek-Turkish border.
	tabling member constituency	Arfon
	tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
	uin	40998
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/05/2020 answer text <p>We continue to be concerned by the situation on the Greece-Turkey border. We recognise Turkey's generosity in supporting millions of refugees who have fled the civil war in Syria; and the challenge faced by both Greece and Turkey in dealing with increased migrant flows. We remain committed to supporting Turkey's efforts to manage migration effectively and are working both bilaterally and with our international partners to this end. The Prime Minister discussed this with the Turkish President on 3 March, as did the Foreign Secretary during his visit to Ankara, also on 3 March.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 05/05/2020 08:10:59 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
	tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

672109

	registered interest
	date	12/01/2017
	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	Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Correspondence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his Department's policy is on the target number of days within which written correspondence from (a) Parliamentarians and (b) the general public should be answered; whether those targets have been changed since 23 June 2016; and to what extent those targets are currently being met.
	tabling member constituency	Arfon
	tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
	uin	59733
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2017 answer text <p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) aims to respond to all correspondence from parliamentarians and members of the public within 20 working days of receipt. These targets have not changed since 23 June 2016.</p><p>The Cabinet Office publishes an annual Written Ministerial Statement (WMS) on ministerial correspondence performance across Government. The WMS on 2015 correspondence performance was made by my Rt Hon. Friend the Member for Ipswich (Ben Gummer) on 21 July 2016 (HCWS118).</p><p><a href="https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2016-07-21/debates/16072152000019/MembersCorrespondence" target="_blank">https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2016-07-21/debates/16072152000019/MembersCorrespondence</a></p><p>The WMS states that, in 2015, FCO Ministers received 8,021 items of correspondence from parliamentarians and responded to 87 per cent of this correspondence within 20 working days.</p><p>Statistics on the FCO's performance on correspondence from members of the public are published in the FCO's <em>Annual Report and Accounts</em>.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/foreign-and-commonwealth-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2015-to-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/foreign-and-commonwealth-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2015-to-2016</a></p><p>In 2015 the FCO received 3,293 letters from members of the public and responded to 71.4 per cent of these letters within 20 working days.</p><p>In addition to hard copy correspondence, the FCO received 12,584 emails from members of the public in 2015. Performance statistics for 2016 correspondence are not yet available.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 18/01/2017 16:39:11 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
	tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

720483

	registered interest
	date	13/04/2017
	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	Spain: Politics and Government
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Spanish Government on the Government's policy on the political integrity of Spain.
	tabling member constituency	Arfon
	tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
	uin	70614
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2017 answer text <p>​The political integrity of Spain is a matter for the Spanish Government and the people of Spain.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan grouped question UIN 70615 question first answered 20/04/2017 16:25:41 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
	tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

720484

	registered interest
	date	13/04/2017
	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	Catalonia: Sovereignty
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Spanish Government on that Government's policy on Catalonian independence.
	tabling member constituency	Arfon
	tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
	uin	70615
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2017 answer text <p>​The political integrity of Spain is a matter for the Spanish Government and the people of Spain.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan grouped question UIN 70614 question first answered 20/04/2017 16:25:41 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
	tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

752118

	registered interest
	date	14/07/2017
	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	Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Brexit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many staff in his Department have responsibilities relating to the UK leaving the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Arfon
	tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
	uin	5025
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2017 answer text <p>​The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), along with other Government Departments, is working with the Department for Exiting the EU (DExEU) to support the UK's exit from the EU. Within the FCO, the Europe Directorate provides advice to FCO Ministers on EU-related issues. This may sometimes include EU exit-related issues. There are some staff members in the FCO's Europe Directorate who work predominantly on the UK's exit from the EU. Staff in other London Directorates, as well as our diplomatic missions around the world, also on occasion work on EU-related issues and this may involve work related to the UK's exit from the EU. Therefore it is not possible to give precise figures.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 24/07/2017 14:39:15 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
	tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

753471

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2017
	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	Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Brexit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much and what proportion of his Department's expenditure has been identified as relating to its work on the UK leaving the EU in 2017-18.
	tabling member constituency	Arfon
	tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
	uin	5624
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2017 answer text <p>The UK's departure from the EU affects work across the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, from direct work on our departure to wider diplomatic work with partners across the world explaining the opportunities this creates. Therefore, the information requested is not held centrally and to compile would incur disproportionate costs.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 26/07/2017 11:30:28 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
	tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

837806

	registered interest
	date	06/02/2018
	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	Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Brexit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much his Department plans to spend on projects relating to the UK leaving the EU in the next five years; and if he will list the projects to which that funding has been assigned.
	tabling member constituency	Arfon
	tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
	uin	126837
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2018 answer text <p>Her Majesty's Treasury (HMT) has already allocated departments an additional nearly £700 million to prepare for Brexit: £412m for the Department for International Trade, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and Department for Exiting the European Union over the parliament in the Autumn Statement 2016 and nearly £300m across a number of departments from the Reserve in 17/18.</p><p>At Autumn Budget 2017 HMT made another £3bn additional funding available over 18/19 and 19/20 – £1.5bn in each year. We are currently working with HMT to determine our allocation for 18/19 and aim to agree this soon.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 14/02/2018 15:33:54 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
	tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

845608

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2018
	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	Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Welsh Language
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what translation arrangements his Department has put in place to enable efficient and accurate handling of Welsh language correspondence from (a) MPs and (b) the general public.
	tabling member constituency	Arfon
	tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
	uin	128580
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2018 answer text <p>The volume of untranslated Welsh language correspondence the Foreign and Commonwealth Office receives is very low. Accordingly we do not have set procedures in place, but instead seek advice from the Wales Office on a case by case basis.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 28/02/2018 16:34:19 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
	tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams