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1131003

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2019
	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	Ivan Golunov
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to the Russian authorities on the recent arrest and alleged physical abuse of investigative journalist Ivan Golunov.
	tabling member constituency	Aberavon
	tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
	uin	262397
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2019 answer text <p>The UK welcomes the dropping of charges against Russian investigative journalist Ivan Golunov. The Foreign Secretary and I publicly voiced our deep concern following Mr Golunov's arrest. We hope his release is indicative of a movement towards greater press freedom in Russia. We will continue to call on Russia to respect freedom of speech and expression, and will continue to defend media freedom.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 18/06/2019 15:30:26 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
	tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock

622594

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2016
	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: Iron and Steel
	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 level of procurement of British steel by his Department in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Aberavon
	tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
	uin	50637
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2016 answer text <p>We are unable to provide a break down of the data for the provenance of steel procured in uk and overseas without incurring disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 03/11/2016 16:41:07 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
	tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock

768940

	registered interest
	date	11/10/2017
	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	USA: North Korea
	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 he has had with his US counterpart on diplomatic tensions between the US and North Korea.
	tabling member constituency	Aberavon
	tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
	uin	107119
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2017 answer text <p>The Foreign Secretary speaks regularly to US Secretary of State Tillerson about the situation in North Korea. We are working with the US and our partners in the region to bring this crisis to a diplomatic end.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 19/10/2017 16:12:44 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
	tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock

757664

	registered interest
	date	05/09/2017
	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	Turkey: Antisemitism
	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 he has had with Turkish counterparts on antisemitism.
	tabling member constituency	Altrincham and Sale West
	tabling member printed	Mr Graham Brady
	uin	8842
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2017 answer text <p>​There have been a number of recent protests targeting synagogues in Turkey, reportedly in response to the situation at the Al Aqsa mosque in East Jerusalem in July. These were condemned by both President Erdoğan and Prime Minister Yıldırım, who emphasised the importance of freedom of religion. As a friend and ally of Turkey, the UK has a frank and honest dialogue with the Turkish authorities on a range of issues, including freedom of religion and non-discrimination.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 13/09/2017 15:15:07 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
	tabling member	435 label Biography information for Sir Graham Brady

757665

	registered interest
	date	05/09/2017
	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	Latvia and Lithuania: World War II
	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 he has had with his counterparts in Latvia and Lithuania on Holocaust revisionism.
	tabling member constituency	Altrincham and Sale West
	tabling member printed	Mr Graham Brady
	uin	8843
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2017 answer text <p>​The Foreign Secretary has not had any recent discussions with his counterparts in Latvia and Lithuania on Holocaust revisionism. They meet regularly to discuss the full range of bilateral issues. Our Embassies in Latvia and Lithuania attend ceremonies remembering the victims of the Holocaust.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 13/09/2017 15:17:11 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
	tabling member	435 label Biography information for Sir Graham Brady

931135

	registered interest
	date	25/06/2018
	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	EU Foreign Affairs Council
	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 withdrew from the European Union Foreign Affairs Council meeting in Brussels on 25 June 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Alyn and Deeside
	tabling member printed	Mark Tami
	uin	157061
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2018 answer text <p>I attended the Foreign Affairs Council meeting on 25 June. This meeting took place in Luxembourg. I made a Written Ministerial Statement about the meeting on 21 June (HCWS 785).</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 28/06/2018 16:33:16 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
	tabling member	1383 label Biography information for Mark Tami

672109

	registered interest
	date	12/01/2017
	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: Correspondence
	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 policy is on the target number of days within which written correspondence from (a) Parliamentarians and (b) the general public should be answered; whether those targets have been changed since 23 June 2016; and to what extent those targets are currently being met.
	tabling member constituency	Arfon
	tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
	uin	59733
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2017 answer text <p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) aims to respond to all correspondence from parliamentarians and members of the public within 20 working days of receipt. These targets have not changed since 23 June 2016.</p><p>The Cabinet Office publishes an annual Written Ministerial Statement (WMS) on ministerial correspondence performance across Government. The WMS on 2015 correspondence performance was made by my Rt Hon. Friend the Member for Ipswich (Ben Gummer) on 21 July 2016 (HCWS118).</p><p><a href="https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2016-07-21/debates/16072152000019/MembersCorrespondence" target="_blank">https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2016-07-21/debates/16072152000019/MembersCorrespondence</a></p><p>The WMS states that, in 2015, FCO Ministers received 8,021 items of correspondence from parliamentarians and responded to 87 per cent of this correspondence within 20 working days.</p><p>Statistics on the FCO's performance on correspondence from members of the public are published in the FCO's <em>Annual Report and Accounts</em>.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/foreign-and-commonwealth-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2015-to-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/foreign-and-commonwealth-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2015-to-2016</a></p><p>In 2015 the FCO received 3,293 letters from members of the public and responded to 71.4 per cent of these letters within 20 working days.</p><p>In addition to hard copy correspondence, the FCO received 12,584 emails from members of the public in 2015. Performance statistics for 2016 correspondence are not yet available.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 18/01/2017 16:39:11 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
	tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

720483

	registered interest
	date	13/04/2017
	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	Spain: Politics and Government
	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 he has had with the Spanish Government on the Government's policy on the political integrity of Spain.
	tabling member constituency	Arfon
	tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
	uin	70614
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2017 answer text <p>​The political integrity of Spain is a matter for the Spanish Government and the people of Spain.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan grouped question UIN 70615 question first answered 20/04/2017 16:25:41 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
	tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

720484

	registered interest
	date	13/04/2017
	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	Catalonia: Sovereignty
	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 he has had with the Spanish Government on that Government's policy on Catalonian independence.
	tabling member constituency	Arfon
	tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
	uin	70615
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2017 answer text <p>​The political integrity of Spain is a matter for the Spanish Government and the people of Spain.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan grouped question UIN 70614 question first answered 20/04/2017 16:25:41 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
	tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

752118

	registered interest
	date	14/07/2017
	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: Brexit
	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 staff in his Department have responsibilities relating to the UK leaving the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Arfon
	tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
	uin	5025
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2017 answer text <p>​The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), along with other Government Departments, is working with the Department for Exiting the EU (DExEU) to support the UK's exit from the EU. Within the FCO, the Europe Directorate provides advice to FCO Ministers on EU-related issues. This may sometimes include EU exit-related issues. There are some staff members in the FCO's Europe Directorate who work predominantly on the UK's exit from the EU. Staff in other London Directorates, as well as our diplomatic missions around the world, also on occasion work on EU-related issues and this may involve work related to the UK's exit from the EU. Therefore it is not possible to give precise figures.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 24/07/2017 14:39:15 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
	tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams