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227810

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date	17/03/2015
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	Pakistan
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 government of Pakistan against death sentences for crimes committed by juveniles in that country.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	227896
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text We regularly raise our concerns at the death penalty in Pakistan and have pressed the Government of Pakistan at a minimum to restore the moratorium on the death penalty. It is our longstanding policy to oppose the death penalty in all circumstances as a matter of principle. Along with our EU counterparts in Pakistan, we have made clear UK concerns on Pakistan’s decision to resume executions. This includes concerns on specific cases, and the need for Pakistan to adhere to international obligations preventing the execution of juveniles. answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 23/03/2015 16:15:22 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

227815

registered interest
date	17/03/2015
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	Pakistan
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 his counterpart in Pakistan on the latest executions in that country; and if he will raise this issue at the current session of the UN Human Rights Council.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	227840
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>We regularly raise our concerns on the death penalty in Pakistan at the highest levels and have pressed the Government of Pakistan to restore the moratorium on the death penalty. It is our longstanding policy to oppose the death penalty in all circumstances as a matter of principle. Along with our EU counterparts in Pakistan, we have raised concerns about Pakistan’s decision to resume executions as well as concerns on a number of individual cases. We continue to raise our concerns at a bilateral and multilateral level. During the current session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC), the UK welcomed growing global support for the UN resolution seeking a moratorium on the use of the death penalty.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 23/03/2015 16:13:07 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

227521

registered interest
date	16/03/2015
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what restrictions are in place on the export of medical equipment to Iran.
tabling member constituency	Monmouth
tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
uin	227580
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2015 answer text <p>EU sanctions against Iran are not intended to affect humanitarian goods, and explicitly exclude medical equipment. Furthermore, the Joint Plan of Action includes provisions to make transactions with Iran for humanitarian purposes much easier. Provided no designated entities are involved, the UK issues, as a priority, licenses for transactions for humanitarian goods.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 20/03/2015 12:06:06 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies

227522

registered interest
date	16/03/2015
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	Israel
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 Israeli government to stop the demolition of Umm al-Hiran.
tabling member constituency	Derby North
tabling member printed	Chris Williamson
uin	227621
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>Officials from our Embassy in Tel Aviv continue to follow the case of Um Il Hiran closely. The Adalah Legal Centre for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, who wrote the report ‘Nomads Against their Will’, issued in 2011, have briefed us on the legal updates since then. We understand the hardships facing the Bedouins of Um il Hiran and continue to study the situation in order to inform any future lobbying.</p><p>Officials have also been in contact with several other organisations that work within the Bedouin community, such as Itach-Maaki and the Arab-Jewish Center for Equality, Empowerment and Cooperation – Negev Institute for Strategies of Peace and Development, to evaluate the best sort of support we can offer the Bedouin community in the Naqab/Negev.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 23/03/2015 14:48:35 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	3976 label Biography information for Chris Williamson

227523

registered interest
date	16/03/2015
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	Israel
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 he has received on plans to demolish Umm al-Hiran in the Negev.
tabling member constituency	Derby North
tabling member printed	Chris Williamson
uin	227622
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>Officials from our Embassy in Tel Aviv continue to follow the case of Um Il Hiran closely. The Adalah Legal Centre for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, who wrote the report ‘Nomads Against their Will’, issued in 2011, have briefed us on the legal updates since then. We understand the hardships facing the Bedouins of Um il Hiran and continue to study the situation in order to inform any future lobbying.</p><p>Officials have also been in contact with several other organisations that work within the Bedouin community, such as Itach-Maaki and the Arab-Jewish Center for Equality, Empowerment and Cooperation – Negev Institute for Strategies of Peace and Development, to evaluate the best sort of support we can offer the Bedouin community in the Naqab/Negev.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 23/03/2015 14:49:02 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	3976 label Biography information for Chris Williamson

227524

registered interest
date	16/03/2015
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	Israel
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 provides support to the civil rights organisation Adalah in Israel.
tabling member constituency	Derby North
tabling member printed	Chris Williamson
uin	227623
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>We do not provide financial support to Adalah but we are in close contact with them as well as a number of other organisations who are closely following the situation of Bedouins in Israel.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 23/03/2015 14:54:38 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	3976 label Biography information for Chris Williamson

227525

registered interest
date	16/03/2015
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	Israel
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 take steps to encourage the Israeli government to provide essential services to unrecognised villages in the Negev.
tabling member constituency	Derby North
tabling member printed	Chris Williamson
uin	227624
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>We continue to encourage the Israeli authorities and Bedouin communities to engage in dialogue to agree a satisfactory solution to this issue. The solution must respect the equality of all of Israel’s citizens in a way which avoids forced relocations, and be consistent with Israel’s commitments under international law.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 23/03/2015 14:55:05 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	3976 label Biography information for Chris Williamson

227526

registered interest
date	16/03/2015
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: Off-payroll Working
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 and its executive agencies and associated bodies were engaged off-payroll in each of the last five years up to the most recent period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Pamela Nash
uin	227600
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>The number of staff in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and its executive agencies and associated bodies engaged off-payroll for the last five years are stated in the table below. Our figure for 2014/15 is from 1st April 2014 to 28th February 2015¹.</p><p>Year FCO<br>2014/15 544¹<br>2013/14 618<br>2012/13 666<br>2011/12 534<br>2010/11 467</p><p>Contingent Labour figures have been published since October 2013 as part of the FCO Workforce Management Information and are available at http://data.gov.uk/dataset/fco-workforce-management-information.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 23/03/2015 16:12:31 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	3909 label Biography information for Pamela Nash

226692

registered interest
date	11/03/2015
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	Iraq
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 assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the efforts of the Iraqi government to engage constructively with the Sunni community; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Harrow West
tabling member printed	Mr Gareth Thomas
uin	227355
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p>Political unity in Iraq is critical to military efforts to defeat ISIL. The Government continues to support political initiatives by Prime Minister Abadi that promote inclusive politics and national reconciliation, of which engagement with the Sunni community is a key part. Sunni political blocs are represented in the Iraqi government and have also been appointed to prominent positions within the Iraqi Security Forces as part of wider reforms. Prime Minister Abadi has taken a number of important steps to address Sunni concerns including ordering the cessation of artillery bombardments of Sunni towns where fighting against ISIL continues and the release of certain Sunni prisoners that had been held without trial following previous counter terrorism operations.</p><p>We are pleased that Sunni MPs ended their boycott of parliament on 2 March, however, further progress must be made, including agreement on the formation of a National Guard and legislative reform.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 16/03/2015 17:26:26 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

226694

registered interest
date	11/03/2015
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	Islamic State: Boko Haram
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 assessment he has made of the extent of links between ISIS and Boko Haram; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Harrow West
tabling member printed	Mr Gareth Thomas
uin	227354
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text ISIL are seeking to influence other groups beyond the Middle East. Recent communications from Boko Haram appear to contain similar elements to those found in ISIL videos. On 7 March, Boko Haram released an audio statement by leader Abubakar Shekau pledging allegiance to ISIL which was subsequently accepted by ISIL on 12 March. Although concerning, this is not a particularly significant development. We assess that the alignment of the groups is for propaganda purposes and we have seen no evidence of operational links between the groups. We continue to keep the situation under review. answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 16/03/2015 17:28:22 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas