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445948

registered interest
date	19/01/2016
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	Magna Carta Fund for Human Rights and Democracy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether trade union groups based abroad will be eligible to bid for funding from the Magna Carta Fund for Human Rights and Democracy.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	23162
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2016 answer text <p>Any individual or organisation can apply to the fund. All parties that submit bids are subject to due diligence checks to ensure they have the capacity/ability to deliver their proposed project in line with the funds objecitves. This applies to all Foreign and Commonwealth Office programme funds. Bids will be rigorously assessed against the criteria set out in our programme guidance and strategy, available online.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 22/01/2016 13:50:47 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

445528

registered interest
date	18/01/2016
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	Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Written Questions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he expects to provide an Answer to the Written Question 19992, tabled on 14 December 2015.
tabling member constituency	Copeland
tabling member printed	Mr Jamie Reed
uin	22861
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2016 answer text <p>I responded to Written Question 19992 on 20 January 2016.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 21/01/2016 15:44:14 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	1503 label Biography information for Mr Jamie Reed

445153

registered interest
date	15/01/2016
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	Capital Punishment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if his Department will include a specific reference to the abolition of the death penalty in its global human rights priorities.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	22749
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2016 answer text <p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office's (FCO) work on abolition of the death penalty is intrinsic to this Government’s pursuit of human rights in their universality. The FCO’s Magna Carta Fund for Human Rights and Democracy, which for the financial year 2016-17 will be doubled in value, is available to support abolitionist projects under any of its three objectives: democratic values and the rule of law; strengthening the rules-based international order; and human rights for a stable world.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 20/01/2016 17:59:21 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

444660

registered interest
date	13/01/2016
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	Russia: Foreign Relations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he and the Secretary of State for Defence met in a 2 plus 2 bilateral meeting with their Russian counterparts.
tabling member constituency	Dunfermline and West Fife
tabling member printed	Douglas Chapman
uin	22465
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2016 answer text <p>The then Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my noble friend the Lord Hague of Richmond and the then Secretary of State for Defence, my right hon. Friend the member for Runnymede and Weybridge (Mr Hammond) met their Russian counterparts at the UK-Russia Joint Foreign and Defence Ministerial Dialogue in London on 13 March 2013. The Government suspended the ‘2+2’ format and wider military cooperation with Russia following Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea in March 2014.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 18/01/2016 16:03:28 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	4402 label Biography information for Douglas Chapman

444189

registered interest
date	12/01/2016
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	Capital Punishment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if his Department will renew its strategy for the abolition of the death penalty.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	22083
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2016 answer text <p>This Government has decided to pursue human rights in their universality – a more ambitious and coherent approach than focusing on a small number of single issues. Our commitment to the Rules Based International Order underpins this work, including through bilateral and multilateral support to global efforts to abolish the death penalty. Because of our wider focus, we do not intend to publish a new strategy specific to the death penalty. However, on the 18 January we published a strategy for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) which shows how work to abolish the death penalty is important under all three of the strategy’s new themes. The FCO’s death penalty-related work will also be covered in future instalments of the FCO’s Annual Human Rights Report.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 20/01/2016 14:55:41 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

444190

registered interest
date	12/01/2016
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	Caribbean: Capital Punishment
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 hold discussions with his counterparts in the government of (a) Jamaica and (b) Trinidad and Tobago on the abolition of the death penalty.
tabling member constituency	The Wrekin
tabling member printed	Mark Pritchard
uin	22075
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2016 answer text <p>It has been a long-standing aspiration of this and previous Governments to persuade Caribbean countries, including Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, to abolish the death penalty. Both Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago have refrained from executing any prisoners for some years. We hope that the final steps necessary to abolish the death penalty permanently will be taken. We formally recommended that Jamaica should abolish the death penalty during its last United Nations Universal Periodic Review. The UK is working with the new government in Trinidad and Tobago to improve judicial processes, including effective sentencing. We are also funding an abolitionist project in the Caribbean, which is designed to turn public opinion against the injustices and cruelties that come with use of the death penalty.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 20/01/2016 14:08:12 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	1576 label Biography information for Mark Pritchard

444191

registered interest
date	12/01/2016
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	EU Countries: Travel Information
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 update his Department's travel advice guidance on the safety of women travellers to (a) Germany and (b) Austria to take account of recent events in those countries.
tabling member constituency	Monmouth
tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
uin	22151
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2016 answer text <p>The FCO’s travel advice is kept under constant review, and is based on objective assessments of the risk to British nationals.</p><p>Our current advice for Germany can be found here:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/germany</p><p>Our current advice for Austria can be found here:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/austria</p><p>While we condemn the criminal behaviour seen in Cologne and on a smaller scale in Hamburg, Salzburg and elsewhere on New Year’s Eve, we do not assess that this is now the standard of behaviour to expect at all public gatherings in Germany or Austria. In addition, the authorities are taking action to ensure that such attacks are not repeated.</p><p>We advise all travellers and British nationals resident in Germany and Austria to monitor our travel advice regularly.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 18/01/2016 16:01:34 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies

444199

registered interest
date	12/01/2016
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	Saudi Arabia: Capital Punishment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, for what reasons his Department has decided not to include Saudi Arabia in its Strategy for the Abolition of the Death Penalty.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	22222
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2016 answer text The criteria used in 2010 to draw up the list of priority countries within the “HMG Strategy for the Abolition of the Death Penalty 2010-2015” are set out in that document. The previous Government decided that limited resources should focus on countries ready to engage in a dialogue about capital punishment likely to lead to reform. Many of the countries prioritised in 2010 have implemented reforms in the intervening five years. Saundi Arabia is included in the 2015 Annual Human Rights Report as a country of concern, primarily because of its use of the death penalty. We do not intend to publish a new strategy specific to the death penalty; but we will be publishing a strategy for the FCO’s Human Rights and Democracy Programme Fund on 18 January, which will show how work to abolish the death penalty is important under all three of the strategy’s new themes. The FCO’s death penalty-related work will also be covered in future instalments of the FCO’s Annual Human Rights Report. answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 18/01/2016 16:02:15 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

444214

registered interest
date	12/01/2016
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	Italy: Teachers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what progress his Department has made on representations to the Italian government on guaranteeing that UK citizens working as teachers at universities in Italy who have had financial aspects of their contracts breached by their employers receive redress and equitable treatment.
tabling member constituency	Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
tabling member printed	Roger Mullin
uin	22055
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2016 answer text <p>In 2015, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office intensified its campaign to end the unacceptable discrimination against the Lettori (UK and foreign national lecturers in Italy). We made significant progress with Italian Ministers in moving towards a legislative solution that would end the inequitable terms and conditions whilst also addressing past discrimination. While this proposal has yet to be submitted to the Italian Parliament, we continue to engage Italian Ministers on this important issue. The most recent meeting took place between The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my right hon. Friend the Member for Runnymede and Weybridge (Mr Hammond) and Foreign Minister Gentiloni in November 2015.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 20/01/2016 14:53:35 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	4468 label Biography information for Roger Mullin

443706

registered interest
date	11/01/2016
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	Netherlands: EU Presidency
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 the Dutch government ahead of the publication of the Programme of the Netherlands Presidency of the Council of the EU.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Greg Mulholland
uin	21870
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2016 answer text <p>Reflecting the strength of the UK-Netherlands relationships, my Ministerial colleagues and I hold regular meetings with our Dutch counterparts to discuss a range of issues, including their current Presidency of the Council of the EU.</p><p>I discussed their Presidency programme with Foreign Minister Bert Koenders and Defence Minister Jeanine Hennis-Plassechaert during my visit to The Hague in November 2015, alongside a number of shared EU priorities.</p><br /><br /> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 19/01/2016 18:01:17 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	1540 label Biography information for Greg Mulholland