Show Search Form

Search Results

registered interest	true false
date	exactly: or between: and
answering body
answering dept id
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name
hansard heading
house id
legislature	pref label
question text
tabling member constituency
tabling member printed
uin
answer	is ministerial correction true false date of answer exactly: or between: and answer text answering member constituency answering member printed question first answered answering member label
tabling member	label

Search

662912

	registered interest
	date	20/12/2016
	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	Armed Conflict: Civilians
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his policy is on whether designating whole cities with civilian populations as military targets is a contravention of international humanitarian law.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	58516
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2017 answer text <p>International Humanitarian Law (IHL) provides that civilians shall not be the object of attack, and prohibits indiscriminate attacks that fail to distinguish between legitimate military targets and civilians or civilian objects. IHL also provides that attacks should not be carried out if they would cause disproportionate harm to civilians.</p><p>The UK is a strong supporter of the standards set out in IHL, including the principles of distinction and proportionality, and considers that attacks that deliberately target civilians or that fail to distinguish between civilians and legitimate military targets violate IHL.</p><p>Whether or not there has been a violation of IHL in any particular instance depends on all of the circumstances. If designation of a whole city with a civilian population as a military target leads to prohibited attacks on civilians and civilian objects this would be a violation of international law.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 13/01/2017 14:33:20 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

662918

	registered interest
	date	20/12/2016
	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	Bahrain: International Institute for Strategic Studies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what issues he raised to whom which related to human rights at the Manama Dialogue 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	58528
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2017 answer text <p>​During my visit to Bahrain for the Manama Dialogue I had meetings with delegations from a number of different states covering a wide range of topics.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 13/01/2017 13:48:33 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

668878

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children: Social Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many local authorities are rated good for children's services.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	58780
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2017 answer text <p>29 local authorities are rated overall ‘good’ under the current Single Inspection Framework. However, not every local authority has been inspected under that framework.</p><p> </p><p>Of the remainder, one is rated 'good' for overall effectiveness under the unannounced inspection of local authority arrangements for the protection of children framework and 18 are rated 'good' for safeguarding overall effectiveness under the safeguarding and looked after children inspection framework.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 13/01/2017 14:56:22 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

669055

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2017
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Developing Countries: Dementia
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment her Department has made of the effect of trends in the number of people globally living with dementia on the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 3.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	58669
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2017 answer text <p>DFID is committed to help countries achieve Global Goal 3, to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages. The largest burden of ill health in developing countries remains communicable diseases and diseases of maternal and child health and nutrition, but dementia is increasing as a health concern. DFID helps countries to strengthen health systems, so they can respond to current and future health needs, and committed in the recent development reviews to strengthen our work on disability so that fewer people are held back by conditions such as dementia.</p> answering member constituency Stockton South answering member printed James Wharton question first answered 13/01/2017 12:48:46 answering member 4123 label Biography information for Lord Wharton of Yarm
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

669048

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2017
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Developing Countries: Tuberculosis
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps the Government is taking to encourage international co-operation to tackle the spread of tuberculosis.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	58865
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2017 answer text <p>Tackling the spread of infectious diseases like tuberculosis (TB) is a priority across the recently published bilateral and multilateral development reviews and the research review. The United Nations General Assembly recently agreed to hold the first ever High Level Meeting on TB in 2018 and ahead of this, we will work with international partners to galvanise increased commitments.</p> answering member constituency Stockton South answering member printed James Wharton question first answered 13/01/2017 12:49:33 answering member 4123 label Biography information for Lord Wharton of Yarm
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

662915

	registered interest
	date	20/12/2016
	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	Husain Abdulwahab
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what (a) reports he has received and (b) representations he has made to his Bahrainian counterpart on the reported denial of adequate medical treatment to Husain Abdulwahab at Jau prison in Bahrain.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	58522
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2017 answer text <p>Officials at the British Embassy in Bahrain continue to monitor the case of Husain Abdulwahab and where we have concerns they continue to be raised with the appropriate authorities. We encourage any claims of mistreatment whilst in detention to be reported to the Ministry of Interior’s Ombudsman, whose duty it is to carry out a thorough and impartial investigation.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 13/01/2017 14:31:13 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

662892

	registered interest
	date	20/12/2016
	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	Kamal Foroughi and Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
	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 24 November 2016 to Question 53303, what representations the Government has made to the Iranian government on the release of Kamal Foroughi and Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	58595
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2017 answer text <p>Ministers and officials have repeatedly made representations on all consular cases involving British nationals in Iran, including Mr Foroughi's and Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's, at all levels, with the Iranian Government. I raised these cases when I met the Iranian ambassador on 7 December and our ambassador in Iran will continue to raise these cases with the Iranian Government at every available opportunity in Tehran.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 13/01/2017 14:10:36 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

662920

	registered interest
	date	20/12/2016
	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	Mauritania: 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 reports he has received on the reported arbitrary detention of Mauritanian anti-slavery human rights defenders between 30 June and 3 July 2016; and what representations his Department has made to the Mauritanian government on (a) that reported detention and (b) the treatment of human rights defenders in that country.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	58530
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2017 answer text <p>The British Government continues to make representations on human rights concerns at the highest levels with the Mauritanian government. Most recently, the Head of the British Office in Nouakchott raised slavery and detention of the Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement Mauritania activists with the Mauritanian Prime Minister and eight other ministers in a meeting alongside EU Heads of Mission on 9 December 2016.</p><p>Ministers and officials have also met recently with anti-slavery activists to discuss treatment of human rights defenders. On Tuesday 6 December 2016, Baroness Anelay of St Johns met with the UN Special Rapporteur on Slavery, Ms Urmila Bhoola, and the Mauritanian anti-slavery activist, Biram Dah Abeid to discuss concerns about slavery in Mauritania. Officials in Nouakchott also met with Mauritanian human rights campaigners from SOS Esclaves in the same month.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 13/01/2017 14:07:41 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

662916

	registered interest
	date	20/12/2016
	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	Mauritania: Political Parties
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when his Department last met the main opposition parties in Mauritania; and whether slavery and reprisals against anti-slavery human rights defenders in that country were discussed at that meeting.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	58536
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2017 answer text <p>The UK Head of the British Office Mission in Nouakchott last met with a coalition of Mauritanian opposition parties on Friday 2 December 2016. Human rights, including the issue of slavery, were discussed during the meeting.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 13/01/2017 13:54:09 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

662919

	registered interest
	date	20/12/2016
	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	Nabeel Rajab
	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 the Government has made to the Bahrainian government on the release of Nabeel Rajab.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	58529
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2017 answer text <p>​Officials at the British Embassy in Bahrain continue to monitor the case of Nabeel Rajab attending each of his hearings, most recently on 28 December. I continue to have broad ranging conversations with my opposite number, His Excellency Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Khalifa, covering all bilateral issues.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 13/01/2017 13:50:07 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake