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date	26/10/2015
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	China: Religious Freedom
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the extent of freedom of religion and belief in China.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	13265
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2015 answer text <p>We remain concerned by the human rights situation in China, including restrictions on freedom of religion or belief. Some of our concerns include restrictions on the celebration of Ramadan in Xinjiang, and reports of church demolition and cross removal in Zhejiang Province. Freedom of religion or belief remains one of the Government’s top priorities and we are dedicated to its promotion and protection around the world.</p><p>We raise this issue consistently with the Chinese authorities and continue to highlight a range of our concerns related to freedom of religion or belief in China in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s Annual Report on Human Rights and Democracy (<a href="http://www.hrdreport.fco.gov.uk" target="_blank">www.hrdreport.fco.gov.uk</a>), and most recently in July 2015. We also did so in detail during the UK-China Human Rights Dialogue in April this year, and will continue to do so as part of our wider relationship.</p> answering member constituency East Devon answering member printed Mr Hugo Swire question first answered 03/11/2015 12:42:32 answering member 1408 label Biography information for Lord Swire
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

423946

registered interest
date	26/10/2015
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	China: 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, what estimate his Department has made of the number of executions in China in 2015.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	13321
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2015 answer text <p>The UK is against the use of the death penalty in all circumstances and we are committed to encouraging its global abolition. We welcomed China’s recent reduction in the number of crimes punishable by death from 55 to 46, but recognise that China is still believed to carry out the most executions with numbers estimated in the low thousands annually.</p><p>We continue to raise the issue with the Chinese authorities, and did so in detail during the last round of the UK-China Human Rights Dialogue in Beijing in April.</p> answering member constituency East Devon answering member printed Mr Hugo Swire question first answered 03/11/2015 12:18:38 answering member 1408 label Biography information for Lord Swire
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

423947

registered interest
date	26/10/2015
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	China: 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, how many prisoners facing the death penalty have been visited by UK diplomatic staff in China during 2015.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	13266
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2015 answer text <p>British consular officials routinely visit all British nationals in Chinese prisons. To date, no British national has been sentenced to the death penalty in a Chinese prison since 2009. British officials are not in a position to visit foreign nationals facing the death penalty in China. However, we monitor the human rights situation in China closely, and report on individual cases of concern, including human rights defenders facing the death penalty, through the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s Annual Report on Human Rights and Democracy.</p> answering member constituency East Devon answering member printed Mr Hugo Swire question first answered 03/11/2015 18:00:34 answering member 1408 label Biography information for Lord Swire
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

423948

registered interest
date	26/10/2015
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	Tibet: Human Rights
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of developments in the human rights situation in the Tibet Autonomous Region and ethnic Tibetan prefectures in China since March 2013.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	13267
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2015 answer text <p>I most recently set out the Government’s position on the human rights situation in Tibet during a Westminster Hall Debate on Tibet on 18 June.</p> answering member constituency East Devon answering member printed Mr Hugo Swire question first answered 03/11/2015 12:00:04 answering member 1408 label Biography information for Lord Swire
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

423949

registered interest
date	26/10/2015
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	Liu Xiaobo
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 his Department has had with the Chinese government on the imprisonment of Liu Xiaobo.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	13268
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2015 answer text <p>We pay close attention to the human rights situation in China, and consistently raise the range of our concerns with the Chinese authorities. We did so in detail at the most recent UK-China Human Rights Dialogue, held in Beijing in April. We raised the case of Liu Xiaobo and his wife Liu Xia immediately prior to the Dialogue.</p><br /> answering member constituency East Devon answering member printed Mr Hugo Swire question first answered 03/11/2015 12:06:18 answering member 1408 label Biography information for Lord Swire
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West