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387038

registered interest
date	01/07/2015
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	EU Reform
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 he has made of whether it is legally possible for each other EU member state to commit to a future change to the Lisbon Treaty before formal processes to agree those changes have been gone through in each of those countries.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Ms Gisela Stuart
uin	5191
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p>The process for amending the EU Treaties is set out in Article 48 of the Treaty on European Union. The representatives of the Member State governments agree the amendments which then need to be ratified by all the Member States in accordance with their respective constitutional requirements. The Prime Minister, my right hon. Friend the Member for Witney (Mr Cameron), has been clear that the EU reforms that we seek must be legally binding and irreversible and that there must be an agreement to change the treaties before the referendum in the UK.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 06/07/2015 15:59:51 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	296 label Biography information for Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston

387039

registered interest
date	01/07/2015
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	Eritrea: Visits Abroad
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 Government (a) Ministers and (b) officials have visited Eritrea since 2010; and on which occasions each such visit was made.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	5193
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2015 answer text <p>No UK Ministers have visited Eritrea since 2010. The UK Special Representative to Sudan visited in December 2011, and the FCO Migration Director led a delegation of six officials from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Home Office to Eritrea in December 2014. On each visit, UK officials held discussions with their Eritrean counterparts. More junior officials have visited Eritrea regularly during the course of normal diplomatic business.</p> answering member constituency Rochford and Southend East answering member printed James Duddridge question first answered 09/07/2015 13:15:09 answering member 1559 label Biography information for Sir James Duddridge
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

387040

registered interest
date	01/07/2015
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: Humanitarian Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the Government has requested the UN Security-General to lead personally negotiations on securing unrestricted humanitarian access in Rakhine State, Burma.
tabling member constituency	Sutton and Cheam
tabling member printed	Paul Scully
uin	5236
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2015 answer text <p>The United Kingdom continues to encourage a wider UN leadership role to help bring peace and reconciliation to all communities in Rakhine State. We welcome the firm personal stand the UN Secretary General has already taken on the Rohingya. During his visit to Burma in November 2014, he publicly expressed his concern about the discrimination and violence they face, and called for the human rights and dignity of all the people in Rakhine to be respected. During the recent crisis in the Andaman Sea, he called President Thein Sein on 20 May to make clear his concerns. The UN Secretary General also presided over a meeting of the International Partnership Group on Burma on 24 April. <br><br>More widely, the UK is actively keeping Rakhine and the situation of the Rohingya high on the international agenda and within the UN system. With UK support, the situation in Rakhine was discussed at a UN Security Council briefing on 28 May, and the UK was instrumental in securing strong UN Resolutions on Burma at the UN General Assembly in November and the Human Rights Council in March. The latter resolution extended the mandate of the Special Rapporteur for Human Rights. In Burma, Professor Yanghee Lee, who has highlighted the plight of the Rohingya in her reports. The Government invited Professor Lee to the UK in March, where she discussed the situation in Rakhine with the Minister of State, my noble Friend the right hon. Baroness Anelay of St Johns. <br><br>We will continue to engage closely with the UN system to maintain a focus on this important issue.</p> answering member constituency East Devon answering member printed Mr Hugo Swire question first answered 07/07/2015 13:43:29 answering member 1408 label Biography information for Lord Swire
tabling member	4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully

387041

registered interest
date	01/07/2015
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	Syria: Military Aid
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 policy is on support to the YPG and YPJ in repelling ISIS in Syria; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	5071
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p>We recognise the difficult circumstances the Syrian Kurds face in the midst of the continuing civil war and their fight against ISIL. We welcome the Kurdish Peoples Protection Units (YPG/YPJ) and allied Free Syrian Army militia driving out ISIL from Tel-Abyad with the assistance of Coalition airstrikes.</p><p>The UK is not providing any direct assistance to the YPG or its political wing the Democratic Union Party (PYD), although we are supporting Coalition airstrikes which have helped groups, including the YPG win significant victories on the ground. We remain concerned that they continue to maintain links with the Assad regime and the PKK, the latter of which is a proscribed terrorist organisation in the UK. In the past year, UK officials have discussed our concerns with the PYD.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 06/07/2015 14:42:59 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

387042

registered interest
date	01/07/2015
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	Russia: Military Aircraft
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 has taken in response to recent incidents of Russian jets operating near UK airspace.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	5072
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p>This year Royal Air Force Typhoon aircraft have deployed on four occasions to escort Russian aircraft in the vicinity of the UK – a similar level to previous years. At no point did these aircraft represent a threat or enter UK sovereign air space. In January, we summoned the Russian Ambassador to account for a Russian military flight that caused disruption to civilian air traffic over the English Channel.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 06/07/2015 15:16:26 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

387043

registered interest
date	01/07/2015
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: Visits Abroad
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, to which countries (a) he and (b) Ministers in his Department plan to pay official visits in the next 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	5073
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p>Travel in pursuit of UK interests, outside regular international meetings (e.g. UN General Assembly; EU Foreign and General Affairs Councils; G7) can often arise at short notice in response to international events. Long-term Ministerial travel plans are not announced in advance for security reasons.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 06/07/2015 16:43:20 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

387092

registered interest
date	01/07/2015
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	Eritrea: National Service
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 in response to findings of the UN Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in Eritrea on national service conscripts being used within foreign-operated companies.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
uin	5208
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p>National service is compulsory in Eritrea and many conscripts serve indefinitely. The national service system was one of the reasons the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) listed Eritrea as a “Country of Concern” in its annual Human Rights Report (2014). The report set out that civilian national service has often included work for government and state-owned companies on low salaries, exposing the Government of Eritrea to the allegation of using forced labour. We have been clear to the Government of Eritrea that it must amend or abolish its national service system. Eritrean government representatives have assured UK officials that the term of service will be strictly limited to 18 months for all new recruits starting from March 2015. We will continue to monitor the situation closely. FCO officials recently met with representatives of the Canadian mining company, Nevsun Mining, who operate the largest mine in Eritrea. Nevsun Mining set out the strict procedures that they had in place to prevent national service conscripts working at the mine.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 06/07/2015 14:51:39 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh

386633

registered interest
date	30/06/2015
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	Argentina: Overseas Trade
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the value of trade was between the UK and Argentina in each of the last six years.
tabling member constituency	Worcester
tabling member printed	Mr Robin Walker
uin	4770
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2015 answer text <p>For the six years to 2013 (most recent figures), trade both goods and services between the United Kingdom and Argentina was worth £1,190m in 2008, £1,250m in 2009, £1,430 in 2010, £1,420m in 2011, £1,460m in 2012 and £1,380 in 2013.</p> answering member constituency East Devon answering member printed Mr Hugo Swire question first answered 07/07/2015 13:35:47 answering member 1408 label Biography information for Lord Swire
tabling member	4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker

386634

registered interest
date	30/06/2015
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	Ukraine
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 security situation in Ukraine; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	4812
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p>The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine reports that the situation on the ground in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions of eastern Ukraine remains tense. A ceasefire agreed in Minsk on 12 February has led to a general reduction in fighting, and some withdrawal of heavy weapons. But some fighting has continued in Shyrokyne and Donetsk Airport, and heavy weapons continue to be used. The OSCE needs to be given full and unhindered access to all areas of the crisis zone so they can verify and monitor the heavy weapons withdrawal.</p><p>The heavy fighting around Maryinka, near Donetsk, on 3 June constituted the most serious violation of the ceasefire under the Minsk agreements since February. The OSCE’s report of 3 June presented a clear picture of large amounts of heavy weapons from Donetsk moving westwards towards Maryinka, indicating this was a provocation by the separatists.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 06/07/2015 15:05:07 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

386635

registered interest
date	30/06/2015
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	Paraguay: Overseas Trade
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the value of trade was between the UK and Paraguay in each of the last six years.
tabling member constituency	Worcester
tabling member printed	Mr Robin Walker
uin	4769
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2015 answer text <p>For the six years to 2013 (most recent figures), trade between the United Kingdom and Paraguay was worth, £25m in 2008, £23m in 2009, £41m in 2010, £47m in 2011, £40m in 2012 and £53m in 2013.</p> answering member constituency East Devon answering member printed Mr Hugo Swire question first answered 07/07/2015 13:38:50 answering member 1408 label Biography information for Lord Swire
tabling member	4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker