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984741

registered interest
date	10/10/2018
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	British Indian Ocean Territory: Fisheries
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 the Government has taken to ensure that fishing rights in the Chagos Archipelago remain available to Mauritius in so far as those rights relate to the territorial sea under the terms of the 18 March 2015 Arbitration Award between the Republic of Mauritius and the UK under Annex VII of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	177754
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2018 answer text <p>The UK is committed to implementing the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) Arbitral Tribunal Award. Since this ruling, senior officials from the UK and Mauritius have met on three occasions to discuss implementing the Award. In line with the Award, the UK will continue to work with Mauritius to agree the best way to meet our obligation to ensure fishing rights in the territorial sea remain available to Mauritius, so far as practicable. The Arbitral Award did not require the termination of the Marine Protected Area (MPA) but the UK will continue to approach discussions with an open mind about the best way to ensure proper conservation management of this unique marine environment.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 17/10/2018 10:29:14 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

984742

registered interest
date	10/10/2018
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	British Indian Ocean Territory: Natural Resources
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether it is the policy of the Government that there should be no human footprint in the Chagos Islands, other than Diego Garcia.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	177755
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2018 answer text <p>There is no Government policy precluding a human footprint in the Chagos Islands.</p><p><br>Sovereignty patrols of the Outer Islands are regularly conducted by British Forces. The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) patrol vessel conducts regular patrolling of the Marine Protected Area (MPA) to combat Illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing. <br>The British Indian Ocean Territory Administration (BIOTA) also grants permits to scientists who wish to conduct research in the Territory (subject to meeting relevant requirements).</p><p><br>A small number of permits for yachts are also issued, with strict conditions, by BIOTA to enable vessels to rest at specific anchorages in order to provide safe passage through the Indian Ocean.</p><p><br>The support package for the Chagossians, announced in November 2016, will also enable Chagossians to maintain a connection with the territory through an increased programme of visits to BIOT. Each visit includes a visit to the outer islands for those who were born on them.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 19/10/2018 09:07:26 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

984743

registered interest
date	10/10/2018
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	British Indian Ocean Territory: Nuclear Powered Vessels
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 nuclear (a) armed and (b) powered surface or submarine vessels have entered the waters of the British Indian Ocean Territory since the Marine Protected Area was established.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	177756
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2018 answer text <p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office does not hold data on the operational movements of naval vessels.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 19/10/2018 09:14:50 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

984744

registered interest
date	10/10/2018
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	British Indian Ocean Territory: Nature Conservation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what emergency procedures are in place to protect the flora and fauna of the British Indian Ocean Territory in the event of an accident involving military aircraft or naval vessels.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	177757
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2018 answer text <p>There are established procedures in place to deal with accidents involving vessels and aircraft that could impact upon the exceptional environment and wildlife of the British Indian Ocean Territory. These include emergency response plans for hazardous waste and/or oil or petrol spills. These plans are practised regularly including large scale simulated scenarios.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 19/10/2018 09:19:12 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

984478

registered interest
date	09/10/2018
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	British Indian Ocean Territory: Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships
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 18 July 2018 to Question 163140, what progress his Department has made on that consideration; and when the Chagos Registers of Births, Deaths and Marriages is planned to be publicly available.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	177341
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2018 answer text <p>The status of the Chagos Registers of Births, Deaths and Marriages, and where they may ultimately be deposited, is still under consideration as part of the department's ongoing programme of records appraisal. To put this in context, there are around 600,000 non-standard files held the in the FCO Archives, along with around the same number of standard departmental files. FCO Archives Management Team has a rolling programme of considering these files for transfer to The National Archives (TNA), which is based on an agreed prioritisation.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 15/10/2018 15:58:32 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

971377

registered interest
date	10/09/2018
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	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, with reference to the 2018-19 Main Estimates, published in April 2018, how much funding his Department has allocated to prepare for the UK leaving the EU.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	172536
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>The FCO has been allocated £29.6m by HM Treasury for essential EU Exit work in FY 18/19. In total, HMT has allocated over £1.5bn of additional funding to Government Departments for EU Exit work in FY 18/19. A full breakdown of this can be found in the Chief Secretary's Written Ministerial Statement, HCWS540. Allocated funds will be taken up by the FCO at Supplementary Estimates 2018-19.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 13/09/2018 16:08:39 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

946916

registered interest
date	23/07/2018
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	Colombia: Armed Conflict
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what diplomatic support the UK Government has provided to the (a) Sisma Mujer and (b) Somos Defensores organisations in Colombia; and what recent discussions his Department has had with representatives of those organisations on the (i) military and (ii) security threats made against those organisations.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	167309
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2018 answer text <p>We are aware of the list of 'military targets' announced by the group that calls itself the Aguilas Negras 'Black Eagles'. As well as NGO's, the list also includes prominent politicians and human rights defenders. The British Embassy in Bogota will discuss any specific threats with our project partners.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 04/09/2018 15:23:19 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

946917

registered interest
date	23/07/2018
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	Colombia: Internally Displaced People
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 (a) he and (b) officials of his Department have had with counterparts at the 38th session of the UN Human Rights Council on the situation of internally displaced people in Colombia.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	167310
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2018 answer text <p>Colombia's 52 year conflict has claimed over 8 million victims including more than 7 million displaced persons. In recent years, only the conflict in Syria has seen a larger number of IDPs caused by internal conflict.</p><p>Speaking times at the Human Rights Council are limited, so it is impossible to cover every country of concern in the UK intervention. On this occasion, the UK chose to prioritise raising Iraq, Syria, South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the situation for IDPs had deteriorated significantly during recent months.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 04/09/2018 15:26:07 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

946918

registered interest
date	23/07/2018
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	Colombia: Overseas 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 support the Government provides for projects and programmes in the Orinoquia region of Colombia.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	167311
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2018 answer text <p>The UK supports two programmes in the Orinoquia region of Colombia which are managed by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. The first programme, known as 'Ganaderia Colombiana Sostenible' aims to increase the sustainability of cattle ranching. It does this by working with small and medium sized farmers to restore degraded land by integrating cattle ranching with tree planting.</p><p>The second programme, called the 'BioCarbon Initiative for Sustainable Forest Landscapes' aims to reduce emissions from the land sector through smarter land-use planning, policies, and practices. It works with a wide range of farming and forestry enterprises and community projects.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 04/09/2018 15:28:14 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

944677

registered interest
date	19/07/2018
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	Colombia: 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 respond to Early Day Motion 1492, on human rights in Colombia.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	166212
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>​Human rights defenders and social leaders play a vital role in promoting the rights of local communities and minority groups in Colombia, and in helping to realise the benefits of the historic peace agreement. I am concerned by reports of increasing violence and killings of human rights defenders and social leaders, something I have discussed with Colombian Ministers and the Colombian Ambassador. The FCO supports the important work of human rights defenders globally, including through our advocacy and project work.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 24/07/2018 16:13:51 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady