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227810

	registered interest
	date	17/03/2015
	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	Pakistan
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to the government of Pakistan against death sentences for crimes committed by juveniles in that country.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol East
	tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
	uin	227896
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text We regularly raise our concerns at the death penalty in Pakistan and have pressed the Government of Pakistan at a minimum to restore the moratorium on the death penalty. It is our longstanding policy to oppose the death penalty in all circumstances as a matter of principle. Along with our EU counterparts in Pakistan, we have made clear UK concerns on Pakistan’s decision to resume executions. This includes concerns on specific cases, and the need for Pakistan to adhere to international obligations preventing the execution of juveniles. answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 23/03/2015 16:15:22 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
	tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

227815

	registered interest
	date	17/03/2015
	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	Pakistan
	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 counterpart in Pakistan on the latest executions in that country; and if he will raise this issue at the current session of the UN Human Rights Council.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol East
	tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
	uin	227840
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>We regularly raise our concerns on the death penalty in Pakistan at the highest levels and have pressed the Government of Pakistan to restore the moratorium on the death penalty. It is our longstanding policy to oppose the death penalty in all circumstances as a matter of principle. Along with our EU counterparts in Pakistan, we have raised concerns about Pakistan’s decision to resume executions as well as concerns on a number of individual cases. We continue to raise our concerns at a bilateral and multilateral level. During the current session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC), the UK welcomed growing global support for the UN resolution seeking a moratorium on the use of the death penalty.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 23/03/2015 16:13:07 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
	tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

227813

	registered interest
	date	17/03/2015
	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	Staff
	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 and what proportion of employees in his Department identify as (a) white or white British, (b) Asian or Asian British, (c) Black or Black British, (d) mixed or multiple ethnic group and (e) another ethnicity.
	tabling member constituency	Ashfield
	tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
	uin	227960
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>Of the Foreign and Commonwealth’s 4,560 UK employees, 3,283 (71.9%) have disclosed their ethnic origin.</p><p>Of these 3,283 staff, the following proportion have identified their ethnicity on the basis set out:</p><p>a) White – 2,869 (87%)<br>b) Asian or Asian British – 187 (6%)<br>c) Black or Black British – 110 (3%)<br>d) Mixed or multiple ethnic group – 75 (2%)<br>e) Ethnicity other than the above – 42 (1%)</p><p>These figures do not include the FCO’s 9,300 locally employed staff in our 268 overseas missions.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 23/03/2015 16:30:49 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
	tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero