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642264

registered interest
date	22/11/2016
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	Libya: Terrorism
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 has sought recent legal advice in relation to the espousal of compensation claims by the UK victims of Libyan-sponsored IRA terrorism; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	North Down
tabling member printed	Lady Hermon
uin	54395
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2016 answer text <p>​The UK Government position remains that it is not able to negotiate with the Libyan Government on individual compensation claims, as these are not government-to-government claims. These are private matters best pursued directly with the Libyan authorities. The FCO does provide facilitation support to campaign groups, where it has been requested and is appropriate.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 24/11/2016 15:45:09 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	1437 label Biography information for Lady Hermon

642265

registered interest
date	22/11/2016
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	Libya: Freezing of Assets
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 within the UN to amend the UN Resolution governing the freezing of Libyan assets in the UK; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	North Down
tabling member printed	Lady Hermon
uin	54396
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2016 answer text <p>The Government has no plans to amend the UN Resolution governing the freezing of Libyan assets in the UK. The UN Security Council affirmed by their resolution 1973 (2011) its determination to ensure that assets frozen pursuant to paragraph 17 of resolution 1970 (2011) shall, at a later stage, as soon as possible be made available to and for the benefit of the people of Libya. UN Security Council resolution 2278(2016) reaffirmed the Security Council's intention in this respect and affirmed the Security Council's readiness to consider changes, when appropriate, to the asset freeze at the request of the Government of National Accord.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 24/11/2016 15:47:19 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	1437 label Biography information for Lady Hermon

641256

registered interest
date	21/11/2016
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	Iran: Christianity
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 raise the case of the seizure of the retreat centre in Mohammadshahr in Karaj belonging to the Council of Assemblies of God Churches with his Iranian counterparts.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	54091
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2016 answer text <p>​The UK regularly raises human rights cases with the Iranian government including the continued persecution of religious minorities. We are aware of restrictions on translating Christian texts in Iran. We condemn these restrictions alongside reports of Christian property being seized and reports of theological schools being closed. We call on Iran to cease harassment of all religious minorities and to fulfil its international and domestic obligations to allow freedom of religion to all Iranians.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 24/11/2016 15:36:49 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

641257

registered interest
date	21/11/2016
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	Iran: Christianity
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 has received representations on the banning of the publication of bibles and Christian literature in Farsi.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	54092
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2016 answer text <p>​The UK regularly raises human rights cases with the Iranian government including the continued persecution of religious minorities. We are aware of restrictions on translating Christian texts in Iran. We condemn these restrictions alongside reports of Christian property being seized and reports of theological schools being closed. We call on Iran to cease harassment of all religious minorities and to fulfil its international and domestic obligations to allow freedom of religion to all Iranians.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 24/11/2016 15:34:07 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

641258

registered interest
date	21/11/2016
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	Iran: Christianity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports his Department has received on the closure of (a) church-owned theological schools and (b) leadership development programmes in Iran.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	54093
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2016 answer text <p>​The UK regularly raises human rights cases with the Iranian government including the continued persecution of religious minorities. We are aware of restrictions on translating Christian texts in Iran. We condemn these restrictions alongside reports of Christian property being seized and reports of theological schools being closed. We call on Iran to cease harassment of all religious minorities and to fulfil its international and domestic obligations to allow freedom of religion to all Iranians.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 24/11/2016 15:38:36 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

641261

registered interest
date	21/11/2016
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	Hong Kong Legislative Council: Membership
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 an assessment of the effect of the banning of Yau Wai-ching and Baggio Sixtus Leung from taking office in the Hong Kong Legislative Council by the Chinese government on the Sino-British Joint Declaration; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	59324
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2016 answer text <p>The status of Yau-Wai-ching and Sixtus Leung is for the Hong Kong' Courts to decide. This issue is still the subject of legal proceedings in Hong Kong. The Joint Declaration and the Basic Law underpin the implementation of 'One Country, Two Systems' and remain the foundations for the high degree of autonomy of Hong Kong and the rights and freedoms of its people.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 24/11/2016 17:17:59 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

641262

registered interest
date	21/11/2016
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	Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
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 reports he has received on the health of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	53901
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2016 answer text <p>Following recent reports about Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s health we are urgently seeking information from the Iranian authorities to raise our concerns. Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s case remains a top priority and our Ambassador in Tehran and Embassy officials are in regular contact with the Iranians on this matter. We shall continue to lobby them at the highest level at every opportunity.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 24/11/2016 15:23:00 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

641263

registered interest
date	21/11/2016
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	Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
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 plans to (a) write to and (b) meet his Iranian counterpart to discuss the case of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe following reports of her deteriorating health.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	53899
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2016 answer text <p>​I have asked our Ambassador in Tehran to urgently raise our concerns about reports of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s deteriorating health with the Iranian authorities, and to request she has appropriate access to medical treatment. Our Ambassador regularly raises Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s case with the Iranians including President Rouhani and Foreign Minister Zarif. The Foreign Secretary, my Rt Hon. Friend the Member for Uxbridge and South Ruislip (Mr Johnson), most recently wrote to his Iranian counterpart on 4 November to raise our concerns on all our consular cases.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 24/11/2016 15:15:47 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

641264

registered interest
date	21/11/2016
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	Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
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 representations he has made to his Iranian counterpart on the case of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	53900
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2016 answer text <p>​Since we were made aware of the arrest of Mrs Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe Ministers and officials have raised the case repeatedly, at all levels, with the Iranian government. Most recently, The Prime Minister, my Rt Hon. Friend the Member for Maidenhead (Mrs May), and The Foreign Secretary, my Rt Hon. Friend the Member for Uxbridge and South Ruislip (Mr Johnson), raised Mrs Zaghari- Ratcliffe’s case with their Iranian counterparts during the UN General Assembly in September. The Prime Minister followed up her concerns in writing to President Rouhani on 3 October. We will continue to raise these cases with the Iranian Government at every available opportunity.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 24/11/2016 15:18:31 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

641270

registered interest
date	21/11/2016
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	Dominican Republic: Floods
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what support his Department is providing to the Dominican Republic to assist with the flooding in that country.
tabling member constituency	Colchester
tabling member printed	Will Quince
uin	53909
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2016 answer text <p>The UK has monitored the situation since heavy persistent rain started falling in parts of the Dominican Republic on 7 November and stands ready to offer assistance if requested by the Government of the Dominican Republic.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 24/11/2016 16:17:35 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4423 label Biography information for Will Quince