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date	06/09/2022
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Nicaragua: Religious Freedom
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of the state of the right to freedom of religion or belief in Nicaragua.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	48397
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2022 answer text <p><ins class="ministerial">We have voiced the UK's deep concern about the ongoing deterioration of political and human rights in Nicaragua both with the Nicaraguan government and in multilateral fora. Reports of harassment of members of the Catholic church in Nicaragua are concerning.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Freedom of religion or belief is a universal human right, and must be protected. The Prime Minister's Special Envoy for Freedom of Religion or Belief tweeted about reports of harassment of members of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua on 10 August and is discussing it with members of the International Religious Freedom or Belief Alliance.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Lord (Tariq) Ahmad of Wimbledon highlighted our concern about the detention of Bishop Rolando Álvarez during his visit to the Holy See on 26 August.</ins></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">We have voiced the UK's deep concern about the ongoing deterioration of political and human rights in Nicaragua both with the Nicaraguan government and in multilateral fora. Reports of harassment of members of the Catholic church in Nicaragua are concerning. Freedom of religion or belief is a universal human right, and must be protected. The Prime Minister's Special Envoy for Freedom of Religion or Belief tweeted on the issue on 10 August and is discussing it with members of the International Religious Freedom or Belief Alliance. Our Permanent Observer at the Organisation of American States also referred to the issue in a statement at a special meeting on the situation in Nicaragua on 12 August. Lord (Tariq) Ahmad of Wimbledon highlighted our concern about the detention of Bishop Rolando Álvarez during his visit to the Holy See on 26 August and he is due to give a statement on behalf of the UK about the human rights situation in Nicaragua at the UN Human Rights Council's Interactive Dialogue with the High Commissioner on 13 September. We will continue to raise our concerns about the situation in Nicaragua, including the detention of members of the Catholic church, and urge the Nicaraguan Government to respect the human rights of all Nicaraguan people.</del></p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 22/09/2022 16:28:30 question first ministerially corrected 23/09/2022 09:28:15 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman previous answer version 20033 answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

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date	19/07/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	SME Brexit Support Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish the (a) total number of applications made by businesses to the SME Brexit Support Fund, (b) number of grants that have been approved, and (c) total amount of funding in grants provided to date for each region of the UK.
tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
uin	35505
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2021 answer text <p>As of 19 July 2021, 5,414 businesses completed applications for grants of up to £2,000. Of this number, 4,<del class="ministerial">7</del>3<ins class="ministerial">7</ins>6 have been offered a grant.</p><p> </p><p>A regional breakdown of the figures shows that businesses in England have been offered £5,862,213, in Scotland £387,387, in Wales £196,546 and in Northern Ireland £360,174.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 22/07/2021 15:54:02 question first ministerially corrected 26/07/2021 08:10:33 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman previous answer version 16360 answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn