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1052434

registered interest
date	01/02/2019
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	Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Public Expenditure
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 set out his Departments operations with a budget of more than £500,000 in (a) strategic programmes, (b) bilateral programmes and (c) FCO services in the 2018-19 financial year.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	215559
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2019 answer text <p>​We publish details of departmental spending over £25,000 on a monthly basis on <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/foreign-office-spend-over-25000" target="_blank">gov.uk</a>, which includes expenditure under our departmental policy programme and expenditure to FCO Services.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 06/02/2019 17:28:11 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

1052439

registered interest
date	01/02/2019
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	Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Public Expenditure
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 publish the (a) amounts and (b) recipients of Information Services expenses in excess of £5,000 in the last full financial year.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	215560
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2019 answer text <p>We do not recognise &quot;information services&quot; as a category of expenditure.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 08/02/2019 14:44:42 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

1052441

registered interest
date	01/02/2019
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	Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Public Expenditure
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 publish the (a) budgets and (b) recipients in excess of £10,000 in 2018-19 for programmes to support (i) human rights, (ii) good governance, (iii) international security, (iv) tackle illicit drugs and (v) anything else.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	215561
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2019 answer text <p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office's (FCO) departmental policy programme advances our foreign policy interests overseas, including in areas such as human rights, reform of the international system and a wide-range of other priority policy areas. The objectives of the Official Development Assistance-eligible aspects of the policy programme is published on the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/official-development-assistance-oda-fco-departmental-programme-spend-objectives-2018-to-2019" target="_blank">FCO's pages of gov.uk </a>including the indicative budgets and actual spend. In addition we also publish details of departmental spending over £25,000 on a monthly basis on <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/foreign-office-spend-over-25000" target="_blank">gov.uk</a>, which includes expenditure under our departmental policy programme.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 08/02/2019 10:32:22 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

1052493

registered interest
date	01/02/2019
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	British Overseas Territories: Companies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to the oral contribution by the Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office to the Foreign Affairs Committee on The future of the UK Overseas Territories on 18 December 2018, Q221, HC1464 and section 51(2) of the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018, on what date his Department will require the Governments of Overseas Territories to introduce publicly accessible registers of the beneficial ownership of companies within their jurisdictions; and whether that date is consistent with the 31 December 2020 target in section 51(2) of the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018.
tabling member constituency	Walsall South
tabling member printed	Valerie Vaz
uin	215576
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2019 answer text <p>The Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 states that “the Secretary of State must no later than 31 December 2020, prepare a draft Order in Council requiring the government of any British Overseas Territory that has not introduced a publicly accessible register of the beneficial ownership of companies within its jurisdiction to do so”.</p><p>The UK Government will therefore prepare the draft legislation by this date, requiring an Overseas Territory that has not introduced a public register, to do so by December 2023. This is consistent with the both the Act and the Government’s call for all countries to make public registers the global norm by 2023.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 06/02/2019 17:32:55 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4076 label Biography information for Valerie Vaz

1054624

registered interest
date	01/02/2019
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	Sanctions: EU Action
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to the Prime Minister's oral contribution of 5 September 2018, Official Report, column 169, what progress the PM has made in pushing for new EU sanctions regimes against those responsible for cyber-attacks and gross human rights violations.
tabling member constituency	East Dunbartonshire
tabling member printed	Jo Swinson
uin	216171
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>The UK has actively supported proposals for three new EU thematic sanctions regimes in order to strengthen our international resilience to hybrid threats. These regimes are in different stages of development in the EU.</p><p>The chemical weapons regime was adopted at the Foreign Affairs Council on 15 October, and on 21 January the EU adopted the first listings under that regime in response to the use of chemical weapons in Salisbury and Syria. These actions demonstrate the resolve of the UK and our allies to tackle the proliferation and use of chemical weapons in contravention of global norms.</p><p>We welcomed the October European Council conclusions which gave a mandate for work on EU cyber sanctions. We are coordinating with EU partners to support the development of a cyber sanctions regime. We are also very supportive of ongoing policy discussions following the Dutch initiative to establish an EU global human rights sanctions regime. This will strengthen the EU’s ability to tackle human rights violations and abuses, wherever they may occur, and allow the EU to respond quickly and appropriately.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 07/02/2019 16:50:14 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson

1054626

registered interest
date	01/02/2019
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	Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to her oral contribution of 5 September 2018, Official Report, column 169, what progress she has made in working with international partners to empower the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to attribute chemical weapons attacks to other states beyond Syria.
tabling member constituency	East Dunbartonshire
tabling member printed	Jo Swinson
uin	216172
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>As set out in the statement of 13 December 2018 [HCWS1177] by the Foreign Secretary and his predecessor’s update to the House on 9 July 2018, the UK was at the forefront of significant successful diplomatic efforts last year to secure, fund and implement decisions to enable the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to attribute responsibility for chemical weapons attacks in Syria, and more widely at the request of an affected State Party. In accordance with the terms of the June Decision, on 15 November 2018, the Director General of the OPCW set out the measures that the OPCW will implement to provide technical expertise on attribution to requesting States Parties and set out his proposals to establish independent, impartial, expert arrangements to assist with this. We continue to work with international partners in supporting the OPCW Director General and the OPCW Technical Secretariat to put in place structures and staffing to take forward their mandated attribution work, a significant step forward in international efforts to end use of chemical weapons.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 07/02/2019 16:32:59 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson

1052170

registered interest
date	31/01/2019
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	Iraq Conflict
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what information the Government holds on discussions between GCHQ and the US National Security Agency on surveillance of delegates to the UN in 2003.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	215228
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>It is the longstanding policy of successive British Governments not to comment on intelligence matters.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 07/02/2019 10:15:02 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1052241

registered interest
date	31/01/2019
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	Cyprus: 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 recent discussions he has held with representatives of the Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot authorities on the future of the island of Cyprus.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	215085
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>The UK is a strong supporter of a comprehensive, just and lasting settlement of the Cyprus issue, based on the internationally accepted model of a bi-zonal, bi-communal federation. We endorse the UN Secretary-General's view that prospects for a settlement remain alive and welcome his continued willingness to work with and consult the parties on a way forward. We are supporting those consultations through dialogue with the parties and the UN. I held productive discussions with UN consultant on Cyprus Jane Holl-Lute on 8 January 2019, with Cypriot Foreign Minister Christodoulides on 5 November 2018, with the President of Cyprus's House of Representatives, Demetris Syllouris, on 25 October 2018 and with Turkish Cypriot Leader Mustafa Akinci on 24 October 2018. Officials in my Department regularly engage with the parties to the settlement talks.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 05/02/2019 17:11:47 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1052323

registered interest
date	31/01/2019
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	Diplomatic Service: Finance
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 annual budget is for each embassy and high commission in 2018-19.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	215119
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>Compiling figures on such a basis can only be achieved at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 05/02/2019 17:32:14 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

1052328

registered interest
date	31/01/2019
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	Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Official Hospitality
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 hospitality and facilities expenses exceeded £5,000 in the last financial year; and who the recipients of that hospitality was.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	215122
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>​In the Financial Year 2017-18 Government Hospitality in Protocol Directorate organised 37 events whose costs amounted to £5000 or more. The events were hosted to mark the following occasions:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>NSA Farewell Reception</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Commercial Courts Dinner</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Somalia Conference Welcome Reception</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Somalia Conference Catering</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ukraine Conference Catering</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FCO Leadership Conference</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>DIT Reception</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FS Summer Reception</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>World Hydrography Day Recption</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>P3+3 Libya Conference</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>International Shipping Week Reception</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>ASEAN 50th Anniversary Reception</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Belvedere Forum Reception</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Central European FM and PD Meeting and Lunch</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>DIT Investors Dinner</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wardrop Dialogue Reception</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Remembrance Sunday</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Defence Council Reception</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Civil Service Awards</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OTD Conference</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OTD JMC Reception</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMRC Peoples' Awards</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>IMO 30th Anniversary Reception</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>DIT Christmas Reception</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>UK China P2P Dialogue</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FS Christmas Reception</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>UK-Japan FM and Defence Lunch</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>UK-France Summit Lunch</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>UK-France Summit Reception</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Education World Forum Reception</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Baltic Reception</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Belvedere Forum</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Patient Safety Conference Reception</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>St David's Day Reception</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>UKTI Security Policing Reception</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>UK - KSA Social Inclusion Dinner</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FS Hosted Commonwealth Reception</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 07/02/2019 16:22:41 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman