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420008

registered interest
date	09/10/2015
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	Gibraltar: 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, whether the job description for the Governor of Gibraltar includes a requirement that the post-holder be a serving or retired military officer.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	10940
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2015 answer text <p>In the case of the recent recruitment of the Governor of Gibraltar, the position was open to serving and former senior civil servants and military officers. The successful candidate was then selected on merit.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 16/10/2015 13:39:52 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

420009

registered interest
date	09/10/2015
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	Gibraltar: Spain
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he has taken to ensure the development of co-operation with Spain on tackling serious crime in British Gibraltar Territorial Waters.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	10941
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2015 answer text <p>Responsibility for law enforcement in British Gibraltar Territorial Waters lies with Her Majesty’s Government of Gibraltar. The UK worked in close consultation with both the Government of Gibraltar and the Government of Spain to reach an agreement on 28 August on stepping up law enforcement cooperation. We have since raised this issue with the Spanish authorities at various levels; I raised the matter most recently with the Spanish Minister for Europe, Fernando Eguidazu, on 12 September.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 16/10/2015 13:39:27 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

420013

registered interest
date	09/10/2015
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	Overseas Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what checks his Department carries out on non-governmental organisations and charities before allocating them funding to ensure that they do not have discriminatory policies against individual countries or states.
tabling member constituency	The Wrekin
tabling member printed	Mark Pritchard
uin	10983
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2015 answer text <p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office conducts due diligence checks, for example background checks, on non-governmental organisations and charities before any offer of funding is made. However, the checks vary depending on the size, nature and operating environment of the proposed work.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 19/10/2015 12:57:00 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	1576 label Biography information for Mark Pritchard

420016

registered interest
date	09/10/2015
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	Germany: Thalidomide
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 German government urging it to follow up on the meeting between German officials and the National Advisory Council of the Thalidomide Trust in July 2015 and work towards its making financial contributions to those affected by Thalidomide.
tabling member constituency	South Suffolk
tabling member printed	James Cartlidge
uin	11058
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2015 answer text <p>We continue to support the Thalidomide Trust in making their own representations directly to the German Government. Officials in London and at the British Embassy in Berlin remain in contact with both the National Advisory Council and the German authorities following their July meeting, including to encourage further meetings.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 19/10/2015 12:52:36 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge

420019

registered interest
date	09/10/2015
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	Gibraltar: Bank Notes
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 legal status of Scottish, Northern Irish and Bank of England banknotes is within the Overseas Territory of Gibraltar; and what the official policy of the Government of Gibraltar is on the use of Scottish and Northern Irish banknotes within that Territory.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
uin	10990
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2015 answer text <p>Finance and related issues are the constitutional competence of Her Majesty’s Government of Gibraltar. It is therefore for them to determine both the legal status and the policy on the use of the Scottish, Northern Irish and Bank of England banknotes within their territory.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 19/10/2015 12:58:03 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

420027

registered interest
date	09/10/2015
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	European Union: Treaties
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which other EU member states have stated that they are prepared to support proposals to amend the EU treaties.
tabling member constituency	Glenrothes
tabling member printed	Peter Grant
uin	11121
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2015 answer text <p>The Prime Minister. my right hon. Friend the Member for Witney (Mr Cameron) has spoken to his counterparts in all other EU Member States, setting out the case for substantive reforms. He has been very clear that these reforms must be legally binding and irreversible and that in some areas that will mean treaty change. Technical talks are currently ongoing.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 19/10/2015 13:00:45 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	4466 label Biography information for Peter Grant

420035

registered interest
date	09/10/2015
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	Spain: 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 meetings he and other Ministers of his Department have had with Miguel Ángel Moratinos.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	10939
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2015 answer text <p>Neither the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my right hon. Friend the member for Runnymede and Weybridge (Mr Hammond) or I have had any recent meetings with Miguel Angel Moratinos.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 19/10/2015 15:07:42 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne