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1108871

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date	01/04/2019
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	China: Transplant Surgery
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the decision by the government of Canada in 2018 to make travelling to China for organ transplants illegal for Canadian citizens.
tabling member printed	Lord Suri
uin	HL14978
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2019 answer text <p>Foreign and Commonwealth Office officials are currently looking into the measures reportedly introduced or being considered in several other countries, including Canada, relating to travel to China for organ transplants.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 15/04/2019 14:49:25 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	4328 label Biography information for Lord Suri

997096

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
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	China: Falun Gong
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to evaluate the credibility of evidence of the forced organ harvesting of practitioners of Falun Gong in China.
tabling member printed	Lord Suri
uin	HL11100
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2018 answer text <p>We are aware of reports that allege that a process of involuntary organ removal may be taking place in China, including suggestions that minority and religious groups are being specifically targeted. The UK Government fully supports the Declaration of Istanbul (May 2008), which encourages all countries to draw up legal and professional frameworks to govern organ donation and transplantation activities.</p><p>As the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Minister for Europe and the Americas, Sir Alan Duncan, stated in a Westminster Hall debate in October 2016: “Although I do not doubt the need to maintain close scrutiny of organ transplant practices in China, we believe that the evidence base is not sufficiently strong to substantiate claims about the systematic harvesting of organs from minority groups. Indeed, based on all the evidence available to us, we cannot conclude that this practice of “organ harvesting” is definitely happening in China.”</p><p>The World Health Organisation (WHO) collates global data on organ donations and works with China. The WHO view is that China is implementing an ethical, voluntary organ transplant system in accordance with international standards, although the WHO does have concerns about overall transparency.</p><p>We continue to review any new evidence that is presented to us.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 08/11/2018 13:17:51 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	4328 label Biography information for Lord Suri

868240

registered interest
date	20/03/2018
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	Nigeria: Violence
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they have made to the government of Nigeria regarding reports of widespread violence in the conflict between Fulani herders and Christian farmers.
tabling member printed	Lord Suri
uin	HL6512
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2018 answer text <p>We regularly raise the issue with both the Federal Government and Governments of affected states to express our concerns about clashes between pastoralists and farmers of all faiths. We encourage the government to address the underlying causes and develop a solution that meets the needs of all affected communities.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 03/04/2018 14:02:21 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	4328 label Biography information for Lord Suri

795236

registered interest
date	27/11/2017
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	Religious Freedom
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the Foreign and Commonwealth Office intends to establish a fund for programmes supporting freedom of religion or belief.
tabling member printed	Lord Suri
uin	HL3638
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2017 answer text <p>The protection of Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB) continues to be a priority for the UK Government. Projects that directly support FoRB overseas are funded through the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO)'s Magna Carta Fund for Human Rights and Democracy. In 2017/18 the Magna Carta Fund will spend £758,717 on six FoRB projects. We will open for bids to support FoRB work in the 2018/19 financial year, early in the next calendar year.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 11/12/2017 15:42:56 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	4328 label Biography information for Lord Suri

751957

registered interest
date	13/07/2017
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	NHS: Amazon
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government what level of grant-in-aid funding was provided to each service within the BBC World Service in each of the financial years 1987–88 to 2014–15; and, for each service, how much of that funding was allocated to (1) operating grants-in-aid, and (2) capital grants.
tabling member printed	Lord Suri
uin	HL792
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2017 answer text <p>The overall information on grant-in-aid funding to the BBC World Service is available to Parliament through the Supplementary Estimates, however the information for each service is not available. The Supplementary Estimates should be available online for a large part of the period in question but the Parliamentary library should hold the information for the whole period in question.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 27/07/2017 13:34:10 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	4328 label Biography information for Lord Suri