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date	14/04/2016
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: Palestinians
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions his Department has had with G4S on that company's adherence to the terms of the (a) Fourth Geneva Convention and (b) UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights related to the detention of Palestinian prisoners in Israel.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
tabling member printed	Tommy Sheppard
uin	34141
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2016 answer text <p>The UK considers Palestinians arrested in the OPTs and detained in Israel as contrary to Article 76 of the Fourth Geneva Convention. The UK Government encourages British companies to show respect for human rights in their operations in the UK and internationally and we have made this clear in meetings with G4S.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 19/04/2016 16:32:12 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	4453 label Biography information for Tommy Sheppard

510064

registered interest
date	11/04/2016
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	Palestinians: EU 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 position the UK representative at the MaMa-COHAFA meeting in Brussels on 11 April 2016 took on proposals to (a) demand compensation from the Israeli authorities for demolition of structures in the Occupied Palestinian Territory funded by the EU and its member-states and (b) make the EU damages registry publicly available.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	33436
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2016 answer text <p>We do not comment on ongoing discussions between EU Member States in the Council, as they are confidential. However, our position on demolitions is clear: they cause unnecessary suffering of ordinary Palestinians and undermine the prospects for a two-state solution.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 19/04/2016 16:29:10 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

510068

registered interest
date	11/04/2016
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: Resignations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of officials of his Department resigned in each of the last six years.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	33291
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2016 answer text <p>In the past six years, 334 officials resigned from the Foreign &amp; Commonwealth Office. The breakdown is as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Resignations</p></td><td><p>Resignations as %</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>67</p></td><td><p>1.4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>83</p></td><td><p>1.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>43</p></td><td><p>0.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>46</p></td><td><p>1.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>48</p></td><td><p>1.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>47</p></td><td><p>1.1%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The figures do not include staff recruited locally by our Missions overseas.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 19/04/2016 16:30:39 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth