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390666

registered interest
date	16/07/2015
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	Government Hospitality: Wines
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 estimate he has made of the value of wine in the Government wine cellar.
tabling member constituency	Copeland
tabling member printed	Mr Jamie Reed
uin	7637
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2015 answer text <p>I refer the Honourable Member to the Written Ministerial Statement on the Annual Statement of the Government hospitality wine cellar 2014-15 (Written Ministerial Statement of 16 July 2015, HCWS142), a copy of which has been placed in the Library of the House.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 22/07/2015 14:08:40 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	1503 label Biography information for Mr Jamie Reed

390786

registered interest
date	16/07/2015
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	Human Rights: Annual Reports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether his Department plans to continue to publish detailed analysis of the human rights situation in countries of concern in an annual human rights report.
tabling member constituency	Cynon Valley
tabling member printed	Ann Clwyd
uin	7689
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2015 answer text <p>We will publish detailed analysis of the human rights situation in priority countries either as part of the Annual Human Rights and Democracy Report or as online updates. We will review our human rights priority countries and options for the content and format of the Annual Report in the Autumn, as we do each year.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 22/07/2015 15:11:11 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	553 label Biography information for Ann Clwyd

390787

registered interest
date	16/07/2015
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	Human Rights: Annual Reports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he proposes to change the (a) length and (b) format of his Department's annual report on human rights and democracy; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Cynon Valley
tabling member printed	Ann Clwyd
uin	7690
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2015 answer text <p>We intend to restructure the Annual Report for greater impact and accessibility, focusing it on the previous year's key human rights developments. We will consider a range of options in the autumn.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 22/07/2015 15:11:38 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	553 label Biography information for Ann Clwyd

390790

registered interest
date	16/07/2015
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	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 his Department's human rights priorities are for the current Parliament.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	7537
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2015 answer text <p>We are currently reconfiguring our work on human rights around three pillars to promite greater focus, boost our impact, and increase our ability to respond to international developments.</p><p>These pillars are:</p><p>(i) Democratic values and the rule of law; <br>(ii) The rules-based international system and,<br>(iii) Human rights for a stable world.</p><p>These will accommodate everything our Embassies, High Commissions and multilateral missions currently prioritise, in locally appropriate ways.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 22/07/2015 15:10:21 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington previous answer version 16854 answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

390293

registered interest
date	15/07/2015
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	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, when he next plans to publish his Department's quarterly updates on human rights conditions in countries of concern.
tabling member constituency	Cynon Valley
tabling member printed	Ann Clwyd
uin	7246
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2015 answer text <p>Updates were published online on 15 July. We did not publish quarterly updates in April 2015 due to purdah constraints. Instead, the 15 July updates covered the period 1 January - 30 June. For future updates we will release our Annual Human Rights and Democracy Report plus a mid-year update on human rights priority countries. This will be a more efficient process allowing us to dedicate more time to tracjing and influencing events.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 22/07/2015 15:10:47 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	553 label Biography information for Ann Clwyd

390300

registered interest
date	15/07/2015
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	Romania: Corruption
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 the government of Romania on tackling corruption in the business sector of that country.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	7317
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2015 answer text <p>The UK closely monitors the implementation of Romania’s National Anticorruption Strategy which covers tackling corruption in the business sector. The UK has provided financial assistance to the Centre for Legal Resources to research ethics and compliance in the Romanian business sector, some of the results of which were subsequently included in Romania’s National Anticorruption Strategy.</p><p>In April 2015 the British and American Chambers of Commerce in Romania and the Romanian Ministry of Justice organised a conference on business integrity, bringing together Government, businesses, non-governmental organisations and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development representatives to discuss the most effective ways to improve integrity of businesses in Romania.</p><p>During his visit to Romania in January 2015, the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my right hon. Friend the Member for Runnymede and Weybridge (Mr Hammond), met President Klaus Iohannis and set out the important work Romania needed to take on tackling corruption, improving predictability of legislation and the positive impact this would have on Romania’s business environment.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 22/07/2015 15:12:32 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

390302

registered interest
date	15/07/2015
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	Defence: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much his Department will receive from the Joint Security Fund for each year to 2020.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	7386
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2015 answer text <p>The Chancellor of the Exchequer, my right hon. Friend the Member for Tatton (Mr Osborne), announced in Budget 2015 the creation of a joint security fund of £1.5 billion by the end of the parliament.</p><p>The Strategic Defence and Security Review will decide how the fund should be best used. The Review will be published towards the end of this year.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 22/07/2015 15:12:07 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

389829

registered interest
date	14/07/2015
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	Ilois: Resettlement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he plans to announce the Government's decision on possible resettlement of the British Indian Ocean Territory by Chagos Islanders.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	6996
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2015 answer text <p>The member for Crawley will note from the written answer of 23 June 2015 (British Indian Ocean Territory: Written question – 2386) given by my honourable friend the Member for Rochford and Southend East (James Duddridge MP), that steady progress is being made on the further analysis of resettlement of BIOT. There is no date yet when an announcement on possible resettlement will be made.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 22/07/2015 15:25:35 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

389831

registered interest
date	14/07/2015
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	Burma: Rohingya
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 is taking to ensure the government of Burma provides citizenship for the Rohingya.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hodge Hill
tabling member printed	Liam Byrne
uin	6928
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2015 answer text <p>The situation of the Rohingya in Burma’s Rakhine State remains of grave concern. It is clear that desperate living conditions are driving many people to make the dangerous journey to other countries in the region, fuelling the humanitarian crisis we have seen this year in the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea. We continue to urge the Burmese authorities to tackle this situation by working towards a long-term solution that brings peace and reconciliation and ensures the civil and human rights of all communities within Rakhine State, including full citizenship for the Rohingya. We are playing our part to resolve the situation in Rakhine. Since 2012, the UK has been one of the largest bilateral humanitarian donors there, investing over £18m in humanitarian support, including an additional £6.2m this year.</p><p>While we have not this year seen intercommunal violence, as witnessed in 2012, the situation remains fragile. Our approach is to seek an end to all violations by encouraging a resolution of the underlying problems and de-escalating tensions. We have made clear to the government of Burma that allegations of human rights abuses must be dealt with through an independent and transparent investigative and prosecutorial process that meets international standards. The UK was instrumental in securing the strong UN Resolution on Burma at the Human Rights Council in March, which extended the mandate of the Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Burma, Professor Yanghee Lee. We very much support Professor Lee’s investigations into the human rights situation in Burma, including in Rakhine, and the reports she has issued on these.</p> answering member constituency East Devon answering member printed Mr Hugo Swire grouped question UIN 6923 6924 6925 6926 question first answered 22/07/2015 15:19:00 answering member 1408 label Biography information for Lord Swire
tabling member	1171 label Biography information for Liam Byrne

389832

registered interest
date	14/07/2015
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	Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Buildings
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 the Answer of 26 June 2015 to Question 3103, when 1 Carlton Gardens was last used as an official residence.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	7059
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2015 answer text <p>No1 Carlton Gardens is used for official events and functions in support of Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and wider government objectives. It was last used as an official residence by the right hon. William Hague until he stepped down as Foreign Secretary in July 2014. The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my right hon. Friend the Member for Runnymede and Weybridge (Mr Hammond) uses the property for official meetings and events with visiting Ministers from overseas. As with any government asset, whether leased or owned, usage and expenditure are carefully monitored to ensure that the building represents value for money for the taxpayer and supports the FCO's and Her Majesty's Government's core business.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 22/07/2015 15:08:09 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne