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date	27/06/2018
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	Antarctic: Marine Protected Areas
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 full-time equivalent permanent staff in his Department are allocated to working on negotiations towards securing an agreement on the proposal to establish a Marine Protected Area in the Weddell Sea at the next annual meeting of the Commission on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	158185
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>​Issues pertaining to the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources are covered by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's (FCO) Polar Regions Department, which currently has 6.5 full-time equivalent permanent staff. This team is also supported on the development of the Weddell Sea Marine Protection Area proposal by FCO Legal Advisers and scientific and technical experts from the British Antarctic Survey and the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 02/07/2018 16:02:10 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

911209

registered interest
date	24/05/2018
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	Guatemala: 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, if he will make representations to his Guatemalan counterpart on reports of threats against the leader and members of the Nuevo Dia Ch'orti Indigenous Association in Guatemala; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	147825
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2018 answer text <p>Officials in our Embassy in Guatemala City will raise these reports at the EU Filter Group, an informal human rights monitoring mechanism, in order to discuss with the international community and collectively raise concerns with the Guatemalan authorities . Our Embassy will continue its work to promote consultation with indigenous populations in advance of major infrastructure projects.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 08/06/2018 10:41:16 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

911222

registered interest
date	24/05/2018
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	International Criminal Court
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 assessment he has made of the merits of ratifying the Kampala amendments on the crime of aggression to the Statute of Rome.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	147826
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2018 answer text <p>The Kampala amendments are activated on 17 July 2018. Thereafter, the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court over the crime of aggression only applies, in the absence of a UN Security Council referral, to acts of aggression committed by States Parties that have ratified or accepted the amendments to the Rome Statute on the crime of aggression. The UK has no plans to ratify these amendments, as we believe that the UN Security Council should be the body responsible for determining when an act of aggression has occurred.</p> answering member constituency Cities of London and Westminster answering member printed Mark Field question first answered 08/06/2018 10:37:18 answering member 1405 label Biography information for Mark Field
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

891538

registered interest
date	25/04/2018
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	Seas and Oceans: Treaties
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 his Department is taking to prepare for formal negotiations on a new UN oceans treaty; and how many officials at his Department at each grade will attend the UN conference in September 2018 on the treaty.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	137986
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2018 answer text <p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) have been actively involved in the preparations for formal negotiations to develop a new agreement under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction. We were actively involved in developing and shaping the EU and Member States' positions during the initial stages of discussions at the UN Ad Hoc Working Group on this issue and during the Preparatory Committee, which reported in July 2017. This Preparatory Committee led to the establishment of the intergovernmental conference which will start its work on the substance in September 2018. The FCO leads, with close cooperation from DEFRA, on these negotiations. We have also consulted with and will continue to consult with other government departments during these negotiations. We will also continue to discuss these issues with external stakeholders including the scientific community and civil society.</p><p>The UK delegation to the intergovernmental conference in September will include three officials, supported by policy and legal expertise from DEFRA. We will continue to review the composition and size of the delegation as the negotiations develop in order to ensure that we have the right people in place to promote the UK's interests and the interests of global conservation.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 30/04/2018 14:47:05 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy