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1471002

	registered interest
	date	16/06/2022
	answering body	COP26
	answering dept id	210
	answering dept short name	COP26
	answering dept sort name	COP26
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the President of COP26, what steps the Government is taking to play a leading in role in delivering on the Glasgow Leaders Declaration on Forest and Land Use.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	19614
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2022 answer text <p>The UK Presidency is continuing to lead international collaboration on Forest and Land Use, building on progress made at COP26. We held an international ministerial meeting on 1 June in Stockholm and we are continuing to work with countries that have endorsed the Declaration to gather views on implementation. We are creating a space for countries that are actively engaged in accelerating progress on the GLD to drive momentum and collectively address shared challenges.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 22/06/2022 10:45:42 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

642285

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2016
	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	Bangladesh: Minority Groups and Radicalism
	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 his international counterparts on protecting minorities and tackling extremism in Bangladesh.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	54144
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2016 answer text <p>The Government is extremely concerned by the increase in extremist-related violence and attacks on minority groups in Bangladesh since September 2015. We have engaged with the Government of Bangladesh, regional partners and the international community to support efforts to tackle violence against minorities and address extremism in Bangladesh. Extremism is a global threat that faces all of us, and we stand shoulder to shoulder with Bangladesh in the fight against it.</p><p>As I said during the Adjournment Debate on Bangladesh in the House of Commons on 8 September it is vital that the Government of Bangladesh upholds and protects the fundamental rights of all their citizens: the right to life, the right to religious freedom or belief and the right to freedom of expression.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 25/11/2016 14:45:51 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

539574

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2016
	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	China: Abduction
	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 the Chinese government on the abduction of activists from outside mainland China.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	43035
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2016 answer text <p>The British Government remain concerned by the case of British citizen Lee Po and the other four Hong Kong booksellers. The National Security Adviser, Mark Lyall Grant, raised the case with the Chinese authorities on 13 June at the UK-China Security Dialogue. The former Foreign Secretary my Rt Hon. Friend the Member for Runnymede and Weybridge (Mr Hammond) also raised the case with the Hong Kong and Chinese authorities on 8 and 9 April.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 26/07/2016 15:05:34 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

539577

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2016
	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	China: Christianity
	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 Chinese government on the removal of crosses from Christian churches in Zhejiang province.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	43039
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2016 answer text <p>We pay close attention to the human rights situation in China and remain concerned by all reports of restrictions to freedom of religion or belief and persecution of faith groups, including reports of the removal of crosses from Christian churches in Zhejiang Province. A British official visited Wenzhou in May and spoke to church leaders. The Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my noble Friend, the Rt Hon. the Baroness of Anelay of St Johns raised the case of Ding Cuimei, who reportedly died while protesting the demolition of her church in Zhejiang province, with the Director of the National People’s Congress Foreign Affairs Committee on 7 July.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 26/07/2016 15:22:26 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

714529

	registered interest
	date	28/03/2017
	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	China: Minority Groups
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports his Department has received on the detention of Uyghur, Tibetan and Christian people in China related to the practice of organ harvesting.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	69416
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2017 answer text <p>​We regularly receive reports and updates from non-government organisations (NGOs) covering a wide range of human rights issues in China. For example, I hosted a roundtable in October 2016 with a range of NGOs working in this area to hear their opinions and analysis firsthand. Among other human rights issues, we have on occasion received reports that individuals from certain religious and ethnic minority groups may have had their organs removed after they have passed away without their or their families consent. My officials continue to scrutinise any new evidence presented.</p><p>We continue to raise the issue of restrictions on religious freedoms and discrimination against ethnic minorities in China, most recently in our statement to the UN Human Rights Council on 14 March 2017.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 05/04/2017 12:58:09 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

539573

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2016
	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	China: Organs
	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 UN on forced organ harvesting in China.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	43036
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2016 answer text <p>The Government has no plans to make representations to the UN on organ harvesting in China. We pay close attention to the human rights situation in China, including allegations of organ harvesting and encourage China to implement its public commitment to stop the use of organs from prisoners. Our current assessment of the human rights situation in China can be found in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s Annual Report on Human Rights and Democracy.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 26/07/2016 15:08:15 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

576820

	registered interest
	date	06/09/2016
	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	China: Organs
	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 Chinese government on banning organ tourism to China.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	45143
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2016 answer text <p>As My Rt Hon. Friend, the former Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Hugo Swire, stated to the house on the 12 July 2016, we have raised concerns about reports of organ harvesting, as well as about the torture and mistreatment of detainees, during the annual UK-China human rights dialogue. We will do so again at the next round. My officials also raised the issue with their Chinese counterparts on 1 September 2016.</p><p>However, despite the fact that UK physicians always advise patients against, it is very difficult to prevent UK citizens travelling to less well-regulated countries to seek an organ transplant. Although numbers are not known, it is thought that very few patients in the UK choose to do so.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 14/09/2016 09:52:04 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

692533

	registered interest
	date	21/02/2017
	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	China: Organs
	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 representations he has made to the Government of China on organ harvesting in that country; and what the outcome of those representations has been.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	64842
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2017 answer text <p>​I opened the UK-China Human Rights Dialogue in London on 27 October 2016, where the UK raised concerns about allegations of organ harvesting.</p><p>The World Health Organisation (WHO) collates global data on organ donations and works with China on this issue. Officials from our Embassy in Beijing met representatives of the WHO earlier this year. Their view was that China was implementing an ethical, voluntary organ transplant system in accordance with international standards, although they did have concerns about overall transparency.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 01/03/2017 16:59:59 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

641254

	registered interest
	date	21/11/2016
	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	China: Taiwan
	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 his Chinese counterpart on that country's relationship with Taiwan.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	54088
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2016 answer text <p>I discussed Taiwan with Assistant Minister Liu Haixing on 15 August 2016 during my visit to Beijing. British and Chinese officials also regularly exchange views on this topic. We reiterate that the UK’s position on Taiwan remains unchanged and that issues should be settled by the people on both sides of the Strait.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 29/11/2016 17:31:54 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1380883

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2021
	answering body	COP26
	answering dept id	210
	answering dept short name	COP26
	answering dept sort name	COP26
	hansard heading	Climate Change: China
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the President of COP26, what steps he plans to take to help ensure that China is held accountable for the adequacy of its response to climate change.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	79374
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2021 answer text <p>The Glasgow Climate Pact is a historic agreement. We have a roadmap to keep 1.5°C alive but this is based on commitments made and relies on concerted and dedicated delivery by all countries. We will continue to demonstrate strong UK leadership over our Presidency year to make sure promises are kept and delivered to the highest standards, working with parties and civil society partners to advance rapid progress.</p><p>Leading up to and at COP26, I held regular discussions with China’s Special Climate Envoy, Xie Zhenhua, and I look forward to continuing to work with China throughout the UK’s COP26 Presidency to implement and build on the pledges China has made this year.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 80993 question first answered 30/11/2021 17:59:00 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon