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999612

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date	01/11/2018
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	Cameroon: Ethnic Groups and Languages
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 made of trends in the level of reported ethnic and linguistic tensions in Cameroon in the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	187055
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2018 answer text <p>Cameroon is a highly ethnically diverse and bilingual country with over 250 ethnic groups and English and French as official languages. The violence in the Anglophone regions is not founded in ethnic roots, but generates from perceived marginalisation of the Anglophone minority. The UK is deeply concerned at the deteriorating violence, deaths and displacement of people which has increased since the end of 2016 with severe effect on civilians. We are working closely with the wider international community, including the UN, to build as full and accurate a picture as possible. The UK continues to raise our concerns with the Government of Cameroon to take urgent action to call for restraint and to end violence on all sides.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 06/11/2018 13:02:38 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

990432

registered interest
date	18/10/2018
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	Saudi Arabia: 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, if he will place in the Library the assessments his Department has made of trends in the incidences of human rights abuses in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia over the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	181350
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2018 answer text <p>​Saudi Arabia remains a Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) human rights priority country. The FCO's annual human rights reports are available on the gov.uk website. Ministers frequently discuss human rights and raise concerns with the Saudi Government at the highest levels.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 23/10/2018 16:05:52 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

987986

registered interest
date	15/10/2018
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	Middle East: Minority Groups
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 trends in the treatment of non-recognised minorities in countries in the Middle East.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	179247
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2018 answer text <p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Human Rights and Democracy report gives our annual assessment on the situation of human rights internationally, including in the Middle East. We are committed to ensuring the protection of human rights of all minority communities, combating religious intolerance and promoting pluralism in society. We raise these issues regularly with partner countries in the region.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 18/10/2018 15:19:26 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

971742

registered interest
date	11/09/2018
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	Emergency Travel Documents
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 he has made of the cost to the public purse of providing emergency travel documents from UK embassies in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	173638
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2018 answer text <p>In line with HM Treasury (HMT) guidelines, we are required to recover the full cost of providing all of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's (FCO) consular services, including the provision of Emergency Travel Documents (ETDs). Fees introduced in April 2016 took account, for the first time, of the full cost of providing consular services and forecast income over the Spending Review period. Consular services are funded through income received from the Consular premium (£14.93 on each standard passport issued) and fees charged for specific services provided to British nationals abroad (for example, the issue of ETDs) and legalisation services provided in the UK. Fees are differentiated between types of service. The fee for providing any individual service is the same throughout the overseas network.</p><p>We conduct an annual review of consular fees to ensure that the fees charged are appropriate and reflect the costs of providing consular services. The costs attributed to providing consular services fluctuate from year to year depending on the overall cost to Government of operating the overseas network and how these are shared amongst the different Government Departments and FCO services using the platform. The Consular Fees Model then further allocates costs across four categories of service (providing assistance, ETDs, notarial acts and legalisation of documents). For example, the increased cost in 2017-18 reflects changes to how the Consular Fees Model makes use of staff activity recording which should allow for more consistency in future, but does make comparison with prior years less relevant.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Total Cost of Issuing ETDs</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>£7,493,409</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>£5,046,453</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>£4,632,489</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>£8,257,673</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>£12,918,549</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 11/10/2018 15:41:46 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin previous answer version 77294 answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens