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747046

registered interest
date	30/06/2017
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	Hong Kong: 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, whether he has had any meetings with Lord Patton of Barnes in the last year to discuss (a) human rights and the state of democracy in Hong Kong and (b) the Joint British-Sino Declaration.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	2349
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2017 answer text <p>In the last year the Foreign &amp; Commonwealth Office has not received any requests from the Rt Hon. The Lord Patten of Barnes for a meeting.</p> answering member constituency Cities of London and Westminster answering member printed Mark Field question first answered 05/07/2017 14:04:19 answering member 1405 label Biography information for Mark Field
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

747047

registered interest
date	30/06/2017
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	Anson Chan
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he intends to meet Anson Chan, former Chief Secretary of Hong Kong, while she is visiting the UK.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	2347
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2017 answer text <p>​Senior officials at the Foreign &amp; Commonwealth Office plan to meet Anson Chan during her visit.</p> answering member constituency Cities of London and Westminster answering member printed Mark Field question first answered 05/07/2017 14:05:55 answering member 1405 label Biography information for Mark Field
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

747048

registered interest
date	30/06/2017
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	Hong Kong: 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 recent assessment he has made of the state of democracy in Hong Kong.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	2348
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2017 answer text <p>The Foreign Secretary issued a Written Ministerial Statement on 29 June to mark the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (<a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statements/" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statements/</a>) which outlined our assessment of the 'One Country, Two Systems' principle, as well as referencing specific concerns over its implementation. The UK continues to believe that it is in Hong Kong's best interests that discussion resumes between all parties in Hong Kong in order to make further progress towards a more democratic and accountable system of government, as provided for in the Basic Law.</p> answering member constituency Cities of London and Westminster answering member printed Mark Field question first answered 05/07/2017 14:08:00 answering member 1405 label Biography information for Mark Field
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

747081

registered interest
date	30/06/2017
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	British Indian Ocean Territory: Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what employment laws are currently in force in the British Indian Ocean Territory.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	2297
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>The British Indian Ocean Territory's Employment Ordinance No.7 of 1984 covers various aspects of employment on BIOT and is available in the House of business library.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 10/07/2017 15:47:25 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

747082

registered interest
date	30/06/2017
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	British Indian Ocean Territory: UN Resolutions
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 issue a response to Early Day Motion 58, UN Vote on Chagos Islands.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	2298
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>I refer to my Written Ministerial Statement on the British Indian Ocean Territory (HCWS10) of 26 June 2017.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 10/07/2017 13:11:57 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

747083

registered interest
date	30/06/2017
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	Ilois: Compensation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much of the £40 million Chagossian assistance package, announced by the Government on 16 November 2016, has been distributed to the Chagossian community by each Government Department.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	2299
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>As the package covers the next ten years, the Government is taking the time necessary to carry out scoping studies and discuss ideas with Chagossian communities in the UK and overseas in order to develop cost-effective programmes which will make the biggest improvement to the lives of those Chagossians who need it most. Accordingly, we are yet to begin disbursing funding from the support package to the Chagossian community, and it is too early to confirm how funds from the package will be allocated across the UK.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 10/07/2017 16:00:21 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

747097

registered interest
date	30/06/2017
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	Ilois: Compensation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how the £40 million compensation package for the exiled Chagos Islands community will be allocated (a) in Crawley constituency and (b) across the UK.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	2343
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>As the Government made clear in the Written Ministerial Statement of 16 November, the support package is not compensation. The Government is taking the time necessary to carry out scoping studies and discuss ideas with Chagossian communities in the UK and overseas in order to develop cost-effective programmes which will make the biggest improvement to the lives of those Chagossians who need it most. Accordingly, we are yet to begin disbursing funding from the support package to the Chagossian community. It is too early to confirm how funds from the package will be allocated across the UK over the next ten years.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 10/07/2017 15:59:43 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

746623

registered interest
date	29/06/2017
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
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government whether they will encourage the United Nations to set up more Human Rights Advisory Panels to investigate alleged violations of human rights by UN personnel.
tabling member printed	Baroness Whitaker
uin	HL254
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2017 answer text <p>The UK remains committed to ensuring the UN has appropriate and robust mechanisms in place to address all alleged violations by UN personnel. The UK hosted a UN Peacekeeping Defence Ministerial in London in September 2016, which among other things, specifically called for all UN personnel deployed in UN peacekeeping operations be committed to the highest standards of conduct. The UN Mission in Kosovo's (UNMIK) Human Rights Advisory Panel was established in response to specific circumstances related to the international administration of Kosovo and is not a model that has applied to regular peace operations.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 13/07/2017 14:27:09 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2510 label Biography information for Baroness Whitaker

746624

registered interest
date	29/06/2017
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	Kosovo: Roma
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government what representations they have made to the government of Kosovo concerning amelioration of the situation of the Kosovo Roma, following the June 2016 report of the United Nations Human Rights Advisory Panel.
tabling member printed	Baroness Whitaker
uin	HL255
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2017 answer text <p>We are working with the Government of Kosovo on issues of minority rights including amongst the Roma community. Our Embassy in Pristina is supporting the return of displaced families from all communities – including the return of three Roma families who, by the end of this Financial Year, should be housed and in receipt of support packages.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 17/07/2017 11:27:21 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2510 label Biography information for Baroness Whitaker

746625

registered interest
date	29/06/2017
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	Ukraine: Roma
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government what representations they have made to the government of Ukraine about (1) investigating the burning down of the Roma camp at 2 Kanalna Street, Kyiv on 5 April, and (2) the return and integration of the Roma residents.
tabling member printed	Baroness Whitaker
uin	HL256
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2017 answer text <p>We are aware of reports of predominantly Roma settlements in Kyiv being destroyed and inhabitants evicted on 30 March and 5 April, we are not aware of reports of what efforts have been made to re-home those affected. We will investigate further and raise these incidents and what has been done to re-home and reintegrate those affected back in to their local communities with the authorities in Kyiv. I shall write to update you as this progresses.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 17/07/2017 11:30:22 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2510 label Biography information for Baroness Whitaker