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date	15/03/2017
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Public Libraries: Complaints
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 14 March 2017 to Question 67236, on public libraries: complaints, if she will publish the number of complaints that (a) have and (b) have not been treated as formal by local authority area in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	68114
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2017 answer text <p>Since 2010, the Department has investigated 15 local authorities in response to complaints raised about whether an authority is failing to carry out its duties imposed on it, by or under, the Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964.</p><p>Not every item of correspondence received about library service changes or library closures is treated as a complaint within scope of section 10(1)(a) of the 1964 Act. Correspondence that is considered trivial, vexatious or lacking in evidence would be considered as not falling within the scope of section 10(1)(a). The Department does not maintain records of the number of correspondence received about library service changes for each local authority in England.</p> answering member constituency Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson question first answered 20/03/2017 12:19:38 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

711458

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date	15/03/2017
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	Bangladesh: 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 recent discussions the Government has had with the Government of Bangladesh on human rights and political violence in that country.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	68171
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2017 answer text <p>I raised concerns about human rights and political violence with the Government of Bangladesh during my visit to Dhaka from 2 to 4 March. In my meetings with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and opposition leaders Begum Khaleda Zia and Raushan Ershad MP, I called on all parties to participate in future elections and to ensure that they were free, fair and credible.</p><p>In my meeting with Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali on 3 March I emphasised that Bangladesh's &quot;zero-tolerance&quot; approach towards terrorism and extremism must respect the rule of law and international human rights standards.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 20/03/2017 16:41:10 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan