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973162

registered interest
date	13/09/2018
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	Iran: 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 his French counterpart on the recent Iran Freedom gathering in Paris.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	174718
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2018 answer text <p>We understand that investigations have been ongoing in a number of European countries regarding perpetrators of a plot against a conference in Paris. On 3rd October, France announced plans to freeze the financial assets of two Iranian nationals, as well as assets belonging to the Iranian domestic intelligence agency in response to the foiled attack. We are not aware at this stage of a link to the UK. The Foreign Secretary has not discussed this with his French counterpart, although we engage regularly with the French Government on a range of security issues.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 11/10/2018 09:58:22 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

973278

registered interest
date	13/09/2018
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: Living Wage
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 that work (a) inside and (b) outside Greater London are paid at a rate below the London Living Wage.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	174803
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <p>No Foreign and Commonwealth Office UK-based staff are paid at a rate below the Real Living Wage either inside or outside Greater London.</p><p><br>​</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 09/10/2018 12:36:22 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

973288

registered interest
date	13/09/2018
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: Working Hours
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the contracted hours are for the highest paid member of staff in his Department.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	174813
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <p>The contracted hours for the highest paid member of staff in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office are 42 hours per week, inclusive of a one hour paid lunch break each day.​</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 09/10/2018 12:42:29 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

973363

registered interest
date	13/09/2018
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	GCHQ and National Cyber Security Centre: Labour Turnover
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the average tenure is of a cyber specialist working at (a) GCHQ and (b) the National Cyber Security Centre.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	174841
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <p>For reasons of national security, we are unable to disclose a breakdown of average tenures for cyber specialists working at Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC).</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 09/10/2018 12:19:26 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

972442

registered interest
date	12/09/2018
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: Temporary Employment
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 are classified as contingent labour.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	173978
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <p>As at 1 October 2018, the FCO had 104 contingent workers.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 09/10/2018 12:24:06 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

972501

registered interest
date	12/09/2018
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: 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 staff (a) are employed directly by (b) are seconded to and (c) work under contract to his Department.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	174093
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <p>As of 31 August 2018, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has:</p><p>a) 4,544 UK-based staff employed directly (of which 583 are on inward interchange loan from other government departments);<br>b) five staff on secondment;<br>c) 95 staff on contract to the FCO.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 09/10/2018 12:28:37 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

972513

registered interest
date	12/09/2018
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: Living Wage
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 that work (a) inside and (b) outside Greater London are paid at a rate below the Real Living Wage.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	174103
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <p>No Foreign and Commonwealth Office UK-based staff are paid at a rate below the Real Living Wage either inside or outside Greater London.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 09/10/2018 12:06:33 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

971665

registered interest
date	11/09/2018
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	USA: International Criminal Court
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 his US counterpart urging him to (a) reassess his attitude towards the International Criminal Court and (b) recognise that the prosecution of war criminals is an important duty for all states.
tabling member constituency	Canterbury
tabling member printed	Rosie Duffield
uin	173619
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2018 answer text <p>The International Criminal Court has our full support in pursuing the mandate it was given under the Rome statute.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 19/09/2018 13:56:28 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4616 label Biography information for Rosie Duffield

971723

registered interest
date	11/09/2018
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	Turkey: Forests
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to his Turkish counterpart on the forest fires in the Turkish province of Tunceli.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Joan Ryan
uin	173498
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <p>I have not discussed the recent forest fires in Tunceli province with the Turkish Foreign Minister. However, I am aware that the Governor of the province said in mid-August, that the authorities were doing all they could to put out the fires, which were later extinguished.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 09/10/2018 10:17:24 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	166 label Biography information for Joan Ryan

971725

registered interest
date	11/09/2018
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	Turkey: Forests
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 an assessment of the effectiveness of the Turkish Government’s efforts to extinguish forest fires in (a) the Turkish province of Tunceli and (b) other Turkish regions with high ethnic minority populations; and if he will make an assessment of the effect of those fires on those ethnic minority populations.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Joan Ryan
uin	173499
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <p>I have no reason to question the effectiveness of the Turkish authorities in tackling forest fires, in Tunceli or any other part of Turkey. Under the circumstances I am unable to assess the impact on local communities of the fires.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 09/10/2018 10:40:57 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	166 label Biography information for Joan Ryan