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927951

registered interest
date	20/06/2018
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	Noura Hussein
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 22 May 2018 to Question 143645 on Noura Hussein, whether the representations his Department has made to the government of Sudan included the possibility of a Presidential pardon.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
uin	155748
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2018 answer text <p>Our Ambassador to Sudan raised our deep concern about Noura Hussein's case at a senior level with the Government of Sudan on 17 June, and made clear our strong opposition to the use of the death penalty, child marriage and forced marriage. I also conveyed our concerns in a call to the Sudanese Foreign Minister on 12 June, stressing the importance of a fair appeal to the sentence imposed by the courts. We will continue to raise the case at a high level with the Government of Sudan.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 28/06/2018 14:06:56 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

927952

registered interest
date	20/06/2018
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	Noura Hussein
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 include private representations on the case of Noura Hussein Hammad in the agenda for the next UK-Sudan strategic dialogue meeting.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
uin	155749
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2018 answer text <p>Our Ambassador to Sudan raised our deep concern about Noura Hussein's case at a senior level with the Government of Sudan on 17 June, and made clear our strong opposition to the use of the death penalty, child marriage and forced marriage. I also conveyed our concerns in a call to the Sudanese Foreign Minister on 12 June, stressing the importance of a fair appeal to the sentence imposed by the courts. We will continue to raise the case at a high level with the Government of Sudan.</p><p>Sudan remains a Human Rights Priority Country for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and the UK-Sudan Strategic Dialogue provides an important platform to raise our human rights concerns with the Government</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 28/06/2018 14:08:33 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

927953

registered interest
date	20/06/2018
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	Noura Hussein
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 (a) raise the case of Noura Hussein Hammad in the Republic of the Sudan with the office of the EU High Representative on Foreign and Security Policy, and (b) support the representations made to Sudan through that office.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
uin	155750
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2018 answer text <p>We are working closely with EU and other partners on Noura's case. On the 15 May we released a statement alongside other EU Heads of Mission to make clear our firm opposition to the use of the death penalty under any circumstances, and to recall the principle of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that marriage should be entered into only with the free and full consent of spouses.</p><p>Our Ambassador to Sudan raised our deep concern about Noura Hussein's case at a senior level with the Government of Sudan on 17 June, and made clear our strong opposition to the use of the death penalty, child marriage and forced marriage. I also conveyed our concerns in a call to the Sudanese Foreign Minister on 12 June, stressing the importance of a fair appeal to the sentence imposed by the courts. We will continue to raise the case at a high level with the Government of Sudan.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 28/06/2018 14:11:43 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

927955

registered interest
date	20/06/2018
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	Sudan: Sexual Offences
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 the Government of the Republic of the Sudan on changes to that country's law on (a) reasonable self-defence against sexual violence as a legal defence in cases where a person has been killed, (b) prohibition of marriage below the age of 18 and (c) recognition of marital rape.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
uin	155751
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2018 answer text <p>The British Ambassador to Sudan has raised the importance of reform of the law on forced marriage, and of laws that discriminate against women, at senior levels with the Government of Sudan, most recently in a meeting with Vice President Hassabo Mohammed Abdulrahman on 17 June. The UK continues to encourage Sudan to sign and ratify the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), and to make clear our support for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights principle that marriage should be entered into only with the free and full consent of spouses.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 28/06/2018 14:55:49 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

927956

registered interest
date	20/06/2018
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	Nigeria: Abduction
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 Cameroonian government on the abduction of ten Cameroonian pro-Independence activists in Nigeria on 6 January 2018.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
uin	155752
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2018 answer text <p>The UK is aware of 47 Anglophone detainees who were arrested in Nigeria and extradited to Cameroon in January this year. During my visit to Cameroon from 13 to 15 February, I pressed Prime Minister Yang to allow access by an independent and reputable agency such as the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) or National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to all the detainees. In his meeting with Cameroonian Prime Minister Yang in April, the Foreign Secretary pushed for the release of detainees. I also delivered the same message to Commonwealth Minister Mbayu when I met him here in London. We have also expressed our concerns through an EU statement at the June Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva and our High Commission in Yaoundé continues to lobby for humanitarian access to the detainees.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 28/06/2018 14:57:23 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

927958

registered interest
date	20/06/2018
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	Nigeria: Abduction
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 the welfare of the 10 Cameroonian pro-Independence activists abducted in Nigeria on 6 January 2018.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
uin	155753
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2018 answer text <p>The UK is aware of 47 Anglophone detainees who were arrested in Nigeria and extradited to Cameroon in January this year. During my visit to Cameroon from 13 to 15 February, I pressed Prime Minister Yang to allow access by an independent and reputable agency such as the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) or National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to all the detainees. In his meeting with Cameroonian Prime Minister Yang during CHOGM, the Foreign Secretary pushed for the release of detainees. I also delivered the same message to Commonwealth Minister Mbayu when I met him here in London. We have also expressed our concerns through an EU statement at the June Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva and our High Commission in Yaoundé continues to lobby for humanitarian access to the detainees.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 28/06/2018 14:59:19 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

927959

registered interest
date	20/06/2018
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	Cameroon: 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 clashes between demonstrators and security forces in the Southern regions of Cameroon since secessionist groups declared the independence of the region on 1 October 2017.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
uin	155754
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2018 answer text <p>The ongoing dispute and clashes in the Anglophone regions of Cameroon are deeply concerning. The Cameroonian authorities need to take urgent steps to de-escalate current tensions and to establish a meaningful process of dialogue to address the root causes. During my visit in February to Cameroon, I met with the Prime Minister and the Ministers of External Relations, Territorial Administration, and Defence where he discussed the ongoing tensions in Cameroon's Anglophone regions. The Foreign Secretary met the Cameroonian Prime Minister during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and pressed for urgent action to resolve the dispute and associated violence. I also delivered the same message to Commonwealth Minister Mbayu when I met him here in London.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 28/06/2018 15:01:53 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

927960

registered interest
date	20/06/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Chemicals: Electronic Commerce
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 17 May to Question 142822 on Chemicals: Electronic Commerce, if he will publish an example of the guidance that has been provided to online retailers to support their reporting obligation under the Poisons Act 1972.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
uin	155755
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2018 answer text <p>We do not make this guidance publicly available owing to concerns surrounding national security.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 26/06/2018 10:48:22 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

927964

registered interest
date	20/06/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Cervical Cancer: Screening
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of current levels of (a) awareness and (b) accessibility of cervical cancer screening services in the London Borough of Newham.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
uin	155756
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2018 answer text <p>While there have been no specific surveys to determine the levels of awareness of cervical screening in Newham, national studies have found that the most common reasons women do not attend cervical screening include practical reasons such as forgetting to schedule an appointment and difficulties finding the time to attend; and limited knowledge of the benefits of screening, misconceptions of their personal risk of developing cervical cancer, fear of the result, fear of the discomfort of screening, and embarrassment.</p><p> </p><p>There is evidence that women from ethnic minority groups and for those for whom English is not a first language are less likely to participate in screening.</p><p> </p><p>Within Newham, NHS England is working with the Royal London cytology laboratory to undertake a workforce analysis of sample takers. This will identify any gaps in capacity and inform future workforce planning and provision.</p><p> </p><p>In 2018, NHS England will also commission cervical screening in sexual health clinics across Newham. This will provide better access to screening in addition to that provided within general practice.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 27/06/2018 13:33:58 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

927965

registered interest
date	20/06/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Cameroon
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Government has received any applications for asylum on the grounds of persecution because of political opinion from persons originating in Southern Cameroon within the last nine months.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
uin	155757
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2018 answer text <p>Information on asylum claimants is held on both the asylum case file and the main immigration database. This will include personal details of claimants and relatives such as claimed dates and places of birth, claimed religion, claimed ethnicity, as well as details of their asylum claims. The way this information is stored is such that it is often not possible to report on these information fields without conducting a manual search of both paper and electronic records. Therefore, we cannot identify how many asylum claims have been granted or refused leave from specific parts of countries of origin or as a result of political opinion<br>Published data relating to the outcomes of asylum claims from each country (including Cameroon) can be found in tab as_02 at volume 1 of the quarterly Immigration Statistics release:<br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-march-2018/list-of-tables#asylum" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-march-2018/list-of-tables#asylum</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 26/06/2018 11:37:38 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown