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date	27/02/2019
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	Middle East: Christianity
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 co-ordinate an international effort to encourage Christians and other religious minorities who have left Iraq and Syria to return to those countries to rebuild their lives.
tabling member constituency	Aberdeen South
tabling member printed	Ross Thomson
uin	226723
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2019 answer text <p>The UK supports the right of all Iraqi and Syrian refugees, regardless of religion, to return to their homes safely, voluntarily and in dignity, when conditions allow.</p><p>Syria is not currently an environment for safe, voluntary and dignified refugee return. We are calling for a negotiated political settlement to end the conflict and create the conditions for refugees to return.</p><p>During my visit to Iraq in January I raised the importance of voluntary returns of refugees and internationally displaced persons with representatives from the Government of Iraq and the Kurdistan Regional Government. To help enable these returns, the UK has committed over £47 million to directly improve conditions in areas liberated from Daesh in Iraq, including an additional £6.9 million which I announced during my visit.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 08/03/2019 12:43:49 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4599 label Biography information for Ross Thomson

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date	09/03/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	High Speed 2 Line
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what work has been undertaken by (a) his Department and (b) HS2 Ltd in the last two years on the effects on chalk aquifers of tunnelling activities associated with the high speed rail route in the Chilterns.
tabling member constituency	Chesham and Amersham
tabling member printed	Mrs Cheryl Gillan
uin	226723
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2015 answer text <p>As part of the Environmental Statement published in November 2013 HS2 Ltd undertook a Water Resources Assessment which included consideration of effects on chalk aquifers in relevant locations. The effects identified can be found in the Environmental Statement Volume 2, CFA 8 and 9, Chapter 13 and Volume 5: Water Resources Assessment for CFA 8 and 9.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 12/03/2015 15:30:54 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	18 label Biography information for Dame Cheryl Gillan