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1104980

registered interest
date	25/03/2019
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	Malta: Trade Agreements
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the bilateral agreements between the UK and Malta, including the agreement that Maltese citizens can receive free healthcare treatment in the UK, will be maintained after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	236483
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2019 answer text <p>​There are no plans to change existing reciprocal healthcare arrangements between the United Kingdom and The Republic of Malta following the United Kingdom's departure from the European Union. The UK Government wants to continue our existing arrangements with Malta, so that no-one faces sudden changes to how they obtain healthcare. Discussions about how to achieve this aim are continuing.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 01/04/2019 13:51:30 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1052493

registered interest
date	01/02/2019
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	British Overseas Territories: Companies
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 the oral contribution by the Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office to the Foreign Affairs Committee on The future of the UK Overseas Territories on 18 December 2018, Q221, HC1464 and section 51(2) of the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018, on what date his Department will require the Governments of Overseas Territories to introduce publicly accessible registers of the beneficial ownership of companies within their jurisdictions; and whether that date is consistent with the 31 December 2020 target in section 51(2) of the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018.
tabling member constituency	Walsall South
tabling member printed	Valerie Vaz
uin	215576
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2019 answer text <p>The Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 states that “the Secretary of State must no later than 31 December 2020, prepare a draft Order in Council requiring the government of any British Overseas Territory that has not introduced a publicly accessible register of the beneficial ownership of companies within its jurisdiction to do so”.</p><p>The UK Government will therefore prepare the draft legislation by this date, requiring an Overseas Territory that has not introduced a public register, to do so by December 2023. This is consistent with the both the Act and the Government’s call for all countries to make public registers the global norm by 2023.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 06/02/2019 17:32:55 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4076 label Biography information for Valerie Vaz

1110990

registered interest
date	10/04/2019
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, whether his Department has deprioritised any Statutory Instruments in relation to the UK leaving the EU; and if he will publish the criteria his Department uses to deprioritise those Instruments.
tabling member constituency	Walsall South
tabling member printed	Valerie Vaz
uin	243432
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2019 answer text <p>​In preparation for no deal, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has laid Statutory Instruments (SIs) relating to sanctions, the Kimberley Process and the Overseas Territories, under the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act (2018) and EU Withdrawal Act (2018). On sanctions, the FCO decided to lay Regulations before exit for those regimes with particular UK interests and where the EU's designations might change after exit. It was decided that it was not necessary to have a full domestic SI in place for other regimes for exit day, because it was possible to rely on retained EU law for a period.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 15/04/2019 13:52:45 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4076 label Biography information for Valerie Vaz

1041420

registered interest
date	14/01/2019
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: Travel
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 has spent on (a) taxis, (b) first class train tickets and (c) business class air travel in each of the last four years.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	208387
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2019 answer text <p>The FCO is by definition a global organisation which uses travel as an essential part of its role.</p><p>FCO Policy is that public transport should be used whenever possible. All FCO staff are directed to use standard class for rail travel unless there are exceptional circumstances. Prior line management approval must be given.</p><p>FCO staff travelling by air are required to book the lowest standard fare possible, subject to budget holder approval. FCO officials may fly business class only if the flight is ten hours or longer, or on flights of more than 5 hours in exceptional circumstances.</p><p>The FCO's expenditure on taxi, First class rail and Business class air travel is detailed in the table below. The figures on First class rail and Business class represent travel booked through the Government's nominated travel agency.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial Year</p></td><td><p>Taxi Travel</p></td><td><p>First Class Rail Travel</p></td><td><p>Business Class Air Travel</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>£0.3m</p></td><td><p>£38,081</p></td><td><p>£4.8m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>£0.3m</p></td><td><p>£24,455</p></td><td><p>£5.2m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>£0.3m</p></td><td><p>£19,724</p></td><td><p>£6.1m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>£1.4m</p></td><td><p>£1,590</p></td><td><p>£5.4m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>£1.3m</p></td><td><p>£3,057</p></td><td><p>£4.5m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>£1.7m</p></td><td><p>£2,597</p></td><td><p>£4.6m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>£1.5m</p></td><td><p>£142</p></td><td><p>£3.3m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>£1.4m</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td><td><p>£5.7m</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 22/01/2019 17:03:36 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1047753

registered interest
date	24/01/2019
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: Aviation
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 (a) business class, (b) economy class and (c) first-class tickets for air travel his Department purchased in each of the past four years.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	212418
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2019 answer text <p>Please refer to PQ 208387.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 01/02/2019 14:46:14 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1054765

registered interest
date	04/02/2019
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: Aviation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 22 January 2019 to Question 208387 and the Answer of 1 February 2019 to Question 212418, if he will publish the number of (a) business class, (b) economy class and (c) first-class tickets for air travel his Department has purchased in each of the past four years.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	216412
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>The number of air travel tickets purchased by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office is given in the table below. The data sets out the number of tickets booked through the Government’s nominated travel agency from June 2016, when the contract with the current travel agency began. Data on the number of tickets prior to June 2016 with the previous travel agency is not held.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Economy class</p></td><td><p>Premium Economy class</p></td><td><p>Business class</p></td><td><p>First class</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Financial Year 2016-17</p></td><td><p>5930</p></td><td><p>461</p></td><td><p>1488</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Financial Year 2017-18</p></td><td><p>8930</p></td><td><p>604</p></td><td><p>2071</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Financial Year 2018-19</p></td><td><p>7754</p></td><td><p>431</p></td><td><p>1541</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>FCO staff travelling by air are required to book the lowest standard fare possible, subject to budget holder approval. As the FCO is present in over 170 countries there is a need for long distance travel. FCO officials may fly business class only if the flight is ten hours or longer, or on flights of more than five hours in exceptional circumstances.</p><p>On occasion, it may be necessary for Ministers and FCO officials to travel first class, for example where journeys need to be made at short notice and there is no availability in any other class, or due to airline limitations when booking two or more sector flights.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 07/02/2019 17:08:02 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1091360

registered interest
date	19/03/2019
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	Chevening
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 times he has used Chevening House for (a) Departmental and (b) personal uses since he took office; and what the duration was of each of those occasions.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	234263
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2019 answer text <p>Chevening House is not funded by the Government and is the responsibility of its trustees. The Prime Minister decides who occupies the building. It is currently shared by the Foreign Secretary, the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union and the Secretary of State for International Trade.</p><p>Since taking office, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs has used Chevening House for departmental use once. The Secretary of State is a protected person, therefore for security reasons we do not disclose his whereabouts during his personal time.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 22/03/2019 14:27:00 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1127530

registered interest
date	20/05/2019
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	Libya: 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 steps his Department has taken to resettle vulnerable refugees and asylum-seekers from Libya; and what support his Department provides to dedicated search and rescue teams in the Mediterranean for those trying to flee Libya.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	256340
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2019 answer text <p>​Following the UNHCR's urgent appeal for resettlement places, the UK has committed to participate in the resettlement of the most vulnerable refugees who have been evacuated by UNHCR from Libya to Niger. This is in addition to the UK's existing commitment to resettle up to 3,000 vulnerable refugee children and their families from the Middle East and North Africa more widely by 2020 under the Vulnerable Children's Resettlement Scheme. The UK Government currently supports the EU's Operation Sophia through the provision of staff to its Operational Headquarters. Presently the Operation's naval operations are temporarily suspended, however should the Operation's air surveillance assets observe a vessel in distress, relevant information is sent to the nearest Maritime Rescue and Coordination Centre to coordinate a response.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 23/05/2019 15:58:28 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1129334

registered interest
date	03/06/2019
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	Libya: Asylum
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to Answer of 23 May to Question 256340, how many refugees were resettled; and whether those resettled places were additional to existing resettlement quotas.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	259361
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2019 answer text <p>Further to my written answer of 23 May, we are making good progress on the resettlement of the 92 refugees referred for resettlement to the UK by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees – many of whom have now arrived in the UK. These resettlement places are within existing global resettlement quotas.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 06/06/2019 15:36:20 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1132260

registered interest
date	14/06/2019
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: International Military Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, on what date the last official from his Department ended their secondment to IMS Ltd.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	264790
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2019 answer text <p>​The Foreign and Commonwealth Office's current record of secondments, which dates back to 2013, holds no information about the secondment of an official from the department to IMS ltd.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 19/06/2019 15:26:45 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq