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479169

registered interest
date	16/03/2016
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	Yemen: Military Intervention
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 10 March 2016 to Question 29389, whether he has sought assurances that Saudi Arabia's internal procedures for investigations are being used to investigate (a) attacks on the Médecins Sans Frontières hospitals and mobile clinic and (b) the airstrike on the Oxfam warehouse.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	31487
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <p>The results of the investigation into the October Médecins Sans Frontières incident were announced at a Saudi Arabian press conference on 31 January, as was the intention to investigate all allegations of concern. The UK has been using diplomatic and military channels to engage with Saudi Arabia on International Humanitarian Law (IHL) compliance. I have spoken to the Saudi Ambassador and the Foreign Secretary, my Rt Hon. Friend the Member for Runnymede and Weybridge (Mr Hammond), has engaged with his counterpart on the importance of compliance with IHL.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 21/03/2016 14:11:43 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

479170

registered interest
date	16/03/2016
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	Yemen: Military Intervention
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 10 March 2016 to Question 29389, on how many occasions and on what dates since the Convention on Cluster Munitions came into force the Government has (a) raised the issue of the use of cluster munitions with Saudi Arabia and (b) encouraged Saudi Arabia to accede to that Convention.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	31489
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <p>We are aware of reports of the alleged use of Cluster Munitions by the Coalition in Yemen. We have raised this issue with the Saudi Arabian authorities and, in line with our obligations under the Convention on Cluster Munitions, continue to encourage Saudi Arabia, as a non-party to the Convention, to accede to it.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 21/03/2016 14:08:15 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

479171

registered interest
date	16/03/2016
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	Yemen: Military Intervention
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 10 March 2016 to Question 29389, on Yemen: military intervention, whether his Department has made an assessment of the independence and integrity of Saudi Arabia's internal procedures for investigations as referred to in that Question.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	31488
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <p>As the Saudi Arabian Government has publicly announced, British and other foreign advisors will provide advice to the independent committee that will assess Saudi Arabian military activity in Yemen. We are standing by to assist this activity as required.</p><p>The UK has been using diplomatic and military channels to engage with Saudi Arabia on compliance with International Humanitarian Law (IHL). I have spoken to the Saudi Ambassador and the Foreign Secretary, my Rt Hon. Friend the Member for Runnymede and Weybridge (Mr Hammond), has engaged with his counterpart on the importance of compliance with IHL.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 21/03/2016 14:09:53 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

475702

registered interest
date	15/03/2016
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	Duke of Cambridge: Speeches
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether (a) he, (b) officials in his Department and (c) advisers in his Department read the Duke of Cambridge's speech given at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on 16 February 2016 before it was presented.
tabling member constituency	Harwich and North Essex
tabling member printed	Mr Bernard Jenkin
uin	31192
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <p>No.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 21/03/2016 14:13:42 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	40 label Biography information for Sir Bernard Jenkin

475704

registered interest
date	15/03/2016
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	Ilois: Resettlement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 15 March 2016 to Questions 30618 and 30619, on Ilois: resettlement, what the (a) process and (b) timetable will be for the Government's final decision; and if he will seek to make time available for a parliamentary debate on this matter.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	31165
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member to the Westminster Hall debate on this matter which took place on 28 October 2015. The Government is still considering its policy in this area. An announcement will be made in due course.</p> answering member constituency Rochford and Southend East answering member printed James Duddridge question first answered 21/03/2016 14:06:59 answering member 1559 label Biography information for Sir James Duddridge
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

475707

registered interest
date	15/03/2016
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	Saudi Arabia: Capital Punishment
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 Saudi Arabian counterpart on the reported planned execution of Ali al-Nimr, Dawood al-Marhoon and Abdullah al-Zaher in that country.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	31067
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <p>We are very concerned about the cases of Ali al-Nimr, Dawood al-Marhoon and Abdallah al-Zaher. We have raised these cases with the Saudi Arabian authorities, most recently on 12 March, at a very senior level. Our expectation remains that they will not be executed.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 21/03/2016 14:14:52 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

475710

registered interest
date	15/03/2016
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	Chevening: Gardens
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 staff who manage the gardens in Chevening country residence are employed as civil servants; whether such staff are enrolled under the civil service pension scheme; and under what terms and conditions such staff are employed with what pension entitlement.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	31136
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <p>No members of the Civil Service are employed at Chevening.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 21/03/2016 14:15:58 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

470445

registered interest
date	14/03/2016
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	United Nations: Peacekeeping Operations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what financial contribution his Department has made to each of the 16 UN peacekeeping operations which are underway.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	31017
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2016 answer text <p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office pays the United Kingdom’s assessed financial contributions to 16 United Nations peacekeeping operations. These payments are mandatory under the United Nations Charter. The United Nations apportions the UK’s share of contributions in accordance with United Nations General Assembly resolutions that determine the annual budget for each peacekeeping operations and the ‘Scale of Assessments’, which sets every United Nations member state’s percentage share of the United Nations Peacekeeping Budget. At present, the United Kingdom pays 5.8% of the cost of each mission, with the exception of the United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan and the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization. These missions are funded from the United Nations Regular Budget, to which the United Kingdom currently contributes 4.5% of costs.</p><p>The table below provides the total budget and United Kingdom contribution to the 16 United Nations peacekeeping operations currently operational for financial year 2015/16:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Name of Peacekeeping Operation</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total PKO budget in FY2015/16 (UK contribution) in £ millions</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>United Nations Mission for <br> the Referendum in Western Sahara</p></td><td><p>38.5 (2.0)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>United Nations Multidimensional Integrated <br> Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic</p></td><td><p>571.6 (31.8)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>United Nations Multidimensional <br> Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali</p></td><td><p>668.5 (37.5)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti</p></td><td><p>305.3 (15.5)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo</p></td><td><p>1001.3 (54.4)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>African Union/United Nations Hybrid operation in Darfur</p></td><td><p>812.9 (39.9)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>United Nations Disengagement Observer Force</p></td><td><p>40.7 (2.2)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus</p></td><td><p>40.1 (1.2)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon</p></td><td><p>376.8 (20.9)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei</p></td><td><p>208.9 (8.7)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo</p></td><td><p>30.3 (1.4)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>United Nations Mission in Liberia</p></td><td><p>271.8 (14.1)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan</p></td><td><p>793.9 (43.0)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan</p></td><td><p>6.9 (0.3)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire</p></td><td><p>316.5 (16.2)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>United Nations Truce Supervision Organization</p></td><td><p>24.6 (1.2)</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Rochford and Southend East answering member printed James Duddridge question first answered 17/03/2016 14:39:33 answering member 1559 label Biography information for Sir James Duddridge attachment 1 file name NAMED DAY PQ31017 - attachment.docx title NAMED DAY PQ 31017 Document
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

470446

registered interest
date	14/03/2016
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	United Nations: Peacekeeping Operations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what information his Department holds on how much and what proportion of the total budget for UN peacekeeping was spent in support of the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus in each of the last six years.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	31050
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2016 answer text <p>The table below sets out how much the UN General Assembly allocated to the gross budget for the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) for the last six UN budget years (which run from 1 July to 30 June); the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus net budget, following the deduction of voluntary contributions from the Governments of Cyprus and Greece; how much the total UN Peacekeeping Budget was for each year; and the percentage of the UN Peacekeeping Budget allocated to UNFICYP’s gross budget. The UN budgets in US dollars, therefore all the figures below are in that currency.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>UN budget year</p></td><td><p>UNFICYP budget (gross)</p></td><td><p>UNFICYP budget (net)</p></td><td><p>Total UN Peacekeeping Budget</p></td><td><p>Percentage of UN Peacekeeping Budget allocated to UNFICYP’s gross budget</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>55,139,400</p></td><td><p>31,027,967</p></td><td><p>8,256,758,900</p></td><td><p>0.67</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>62,531,500</p></td><td><p>36,082,233</p></td><td><p>8,510,143,233</p></td><td><p>0.73</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>58,514,200</p></td><td><p>33,332,866</p></td><td><p>7,901,248,366</p></td><td><p>0.74</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>56,968,200</p></td><td><p>32,251,867</p></td><td><p>7,364,983,850</p></td><td><p>0.77</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>60,121,200</p></td><td><p>34,506,933</p></td><td><p>7,835,339,630</p></td><td><p>0.77</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>59,759,200</p></td><td><p>34,304,608</p></td><td><p>7,823,615,600</p></td><td><p>0.76</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Rochford and Southend East answering member printed James Duddridge question first answered 17/03/2016 14:43:21 answering member 1559 label Biography information for Sir James Duddridge attachment 1 file name PQ 31050 - Emily Thornberry MP - UNFICYP budget.docx title Table
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

470462

registered interest
date	14/03/2016
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	Iraq: Islamic State
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 the effectiveness of the government of Iraq in re-assimilating newly liberated regions from Daesh/ISIL; what steps the Government is taking to assist Iraq with such assimilation; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	30880
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2016 answer text <p>The Government of Iraq is committed to stabilising areas which have been liberated from Daesh by providing the governance, services and security necessary to enable the safe return of Iraqis to these areas. The Global Coalition is supporting the Government of Iraq to do this, including by working through the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Funding Facility for Immediate Stabilisation. In the last year, UNDP report that these efforts have contributed to the return of 170,000 people to Tikrit, 49,000 people to Al Dour and 15,000 people to Mkeishifa. The UK has supported these efforts by providing £2.5 million to UNDP, deploying stabilisation advisors to UNDP and to the British Embassy in Baghdad, deploying a Communications Advisor to support the Governor of Anbar, and providing £225,000 to United Nations Mine Action Service to establish a coordination unit to assess the scope of explosive threats.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 17/03/2016 15:28:54 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell