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1105561

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date	27/03/2019
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Food Banks: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the Independent Food Aid Network report, published in March 2019, that found in Scotland between April 2017 and September 2018, more than double the number of food parcels were given out than previously estimated.
tabling member constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East
tabling member printed	Angela Crawley
uin	237731
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>We welcome any research aimed at improving our understanding of the nature and extent of food bank use. We recognise the data limitations in this area and that is why the Department for Work and Pensions has been working with a number of food security experts, the Office for National Statistics and the Scottish Government to introduce a new set of food security questions into the Family Resources Survey (FRS) from April.</p><p> </p><p>In the short term we are exploring how we can build on current good practice to make it as easy as possible for food banks to identify and refer back to the local Jobcentre any customers who may, for a variety of reasons, not be receiving the full formal support to which they are entitled.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has committed to a strong safety-net for those who need it; we spend over £95 billion a year on welfare benefits for people of working age including a well-established system of hardship payments, benefit advances and budgeting loans as an additional safeguard for those who need it.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 02/04/2019 14:37:07 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4469 label Biography information for Angela Crawley

1105588

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date	27/03/2019
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Cocoa: Trade
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, with reference to the UN's global goals to end poverty, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that cocoa farmers earn living incomes by 2030.
tabling member constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East
tabling member printed	Angela Crawley
uin	237740
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2019 answer text <p>The UK is firmly of the belief that trade has a key role to play in delivering the global goals and tackling poverty. That is why the Taxation (Cross-Border Trade) Act enables the UK to put in place a trade preferences scheme for developing countries, granting duty-free, quota-free access to 48 Least Developing Countries and granting tariff reductions to around 25 other developing countries. This is critical to achieving Global Goal 17. It also remains the UK’s priority to replicate the effects of the EU’s Economic Partnership Agreements with African, Caribbean and Pacific countries, which includes 24 Commonwealth countries, some of whom are key cocoa producers.</p> answering member constituency Meon Valley answering member printed George Hollingbery question first answered 05/04/2019 09:12:51 answering member 4016 label Biography information for Sir George Hollingbery
tabling member	4469 label Biography information for Angela Crawley

1105589

registered interest
date	27/03/2019
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	Papua: Indigenous Peoples
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to the Indonesian Government on the murder and torture of West Papuan indigenous people.
tabling member constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East
tabling member printed	Angela Crawley
uin	237741
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2019 answer text <p>The British Government follows the situation in Papua closely. Officials in London and at the Embassy in Jakarta press the Indonesian authorities to address legitimate human rights concerns, including upholding the right of all citizens to protest peacefully, and promote the sustainable and equitable development of the provinces.</p><p> </p><p>I met the Indonesian Ambassador in January and raised Papua with him. The Ambassador raised the recent violence in Nduga Regency with senior officials in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in January and called on the Indonesian authorities to ensure that any security response was proportionate. Officials at the Embassy in Jakarta raised reports of the use of torture with the Deputy Police Chief of Papua Province in February 2019.</p> answering member constituency Cities of London and Westminster answering member printed Mark Field question first answered 01/04/2019 13:16:59 answering member 1405 label Biography information for Mark Field
tabling member	4469 label Biography information for Angela Crawley

1105590

registered interest
date	27/03/2019
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	Papua: Political Prisoners
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to the Indonesian Government on West Papuan political prisoners held in West Papua and throughout Indonesia.
tabling member constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East
tabling member printed	Angela Crawley
uin	237742
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>The British Government follows the situation in Papua closely. Officials at our Embassy in Jakarta visit Papua and West Papua provinces regularly. Officials press the Indonesian authorities to address legitimate human rights concerns, including upholding the right of all citizens to protest peacefully, and promote the sustainable and equitable development of the provinces. We fully support the positive steps taken by President Joko Widodo to release political prisoners.</p> answering member constituency Cities of London and Westminster answering member printed Mark Field question first answered 02/04/2019 15:36:05 answering member 1405 label Biography information for Mark Field
tabling member	4469 label Biography information for Angela Crawley

1105591

registered interest
date	27/03/2019
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	Papua: 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, what steps his Department is taking to promote human rights of West Papuans.
tabling member constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East
tabling member printed	Angela Crawley
uin	237743
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>The British Government follows the situation in Papua closely. Officials at our Embassy in Jakarta visit Papua and West Papua provinces regularly. Officials press the Indonesian authorities to address legitimate human rights concerns, including upholding the right of all citizens to protest peacefully, and promote the sustainable and equitable development of the provinces. The Ambassador raised the recent violence in Nduga Regency with senior officials in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in January.</p> answering member constituency Cities of London and Westminster answering member printed Mark Field question first answered 02/04/2019 15:37:53 answering member 1405 label Biography information for Mark Field
tabling member	4469 label Biography information for Angela Crawley