The British Government has publicly expressed its concern surrounding the arrests of Mr Arif and Ms Leyla Yunus and Mr Rasul Jafarav amongst others, and supports the EU statement of 14 August 2014 regarding the recent deterioration of the human rights situation in Azerbaijan. As has been the case in recent high profile trials, the British Government expects to make representation in coordination with its EU partners.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/3474", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns"} } , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Baroness Anelay of St Johns"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2014-11-05", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2014-11-05T15:49:52.6019191Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "16"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Foreign and Commonwealth Office"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Foreign and Commonwealth Office"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2014-10-23", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Azerbaijan"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "2"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25277", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Lords"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty\u2019s Government whether they plan to send observers to the imminent trials in Azerbaijan of (1) Mr Arif and Ms Leyla Yunus of the Peace and Democracy Institute, (2) Mr Intigam Aliyev, and (3) Mr Rasul Jafarov; and whether they will propose that their trials are fully covered by European Union diplomats.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/2018", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Hylton"} } , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Lord Hylton"} ], "uin" : "HL2337"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/100609", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Foreign and Commonwealth Office"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/100609/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "
Since the Language Centre opened on 19th September 2013 a total of 45 different languages have been studied there either full or part-time by 813 students. Of those students, 779 are Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) staff and 34 are from other government departments (OGDs) (including staff from the following departments: Ministry of Defence, Cabinet Office, the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills, Home Office, Ministry of Justice, UK Trade and Investment, the Department for International Development, HM Revenue and Customs, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Department of Energy and Climate Change, and the House of Commons). An additional 60 FCO staff have trained at the Institut Francais. Staff across the Civil Service can also access the FCO Language Centre library to continue to develop their own language skills outside formal study and 58 OGD staff have taken advantage of this offer so far.<\/p>
It is important to note that when more appropriate, staff from OGDs also receive language training outside of the FCO Language Centre through use of the Civil Service-wide contract with Language Services Direct (the company that run the FCO Language Centre) or at the Institut Francais if French is required. Since September 2014, 113 OGD students have received language training on their own premises via the FCO contract.<\/p>
The table below provides a breakdown of the languages that have been taught at the FCO Language Centre:<\/p>
Albanian<\/p><\/td> | 2<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
Arabic<\/p><\/td> | 186<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
Azeri<\/p><\/td> | 1<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
Bosnian<\/p><\/td> | 1<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
Bulgarian<\/p><\/td> | 3<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
Burmese<\/p><\/td> | 1<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
Cambodian<\/p><\/td> | 1<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
Czech<\/p><\/td> | 1<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
Danish<\/p><\/td> | 2<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
Dari<\/p><\/td> | 5<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
Dutch<\/p><\/td> | 5<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
Farsi<\/p><\/td> | 33<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
Finnish<\/p><\/td> | 1<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
French<\/p><\/td> | 14<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
Georgian<\/p><\/td> | 1<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
German<\/p><\/td> | 40<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
Greek<\/p><\/td> | 4<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
Hebrew<\/p><\/td> | 1<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
Hindi<\/p><\/td> | 20<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
Indonesian<\/p><\/td> | 4<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
Italian<\/p><\/td> | 23<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
Japanese<\/p><\/td> | 33<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
Korean<\/p><\/td> | 8<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
Macedonian<\/p><\/td> | 1<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
Mandarin<\/p><\/td> | 93<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
Norwegian<\/p><\/td> | 1<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
Pashto<\/p><\/td> | 5<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
Polish<\/p><\/td> | 3<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
Portuguese<\/p><\/td> | 47<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
Romanian<\/p><\/td> | 3<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
Russian<\/p><\/td> | 84<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
Serbian<\/p><\/td> | 3<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
Sinhalese<\/p><\/td> | 1<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
Slovak<\/p><\/td> | 1<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
Slovene<\/p><\/td> | 1<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
Spanish<\/p><\/td> | 153<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
Swedish<\/p><\/td> | 3<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
Tajik<\/p><\/td> | 1<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
Thai<\/p><\/td> | 2<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
Tigrinya<\/p><\/td> | 1<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
Turkish<\/p><\/td> | 11<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
Turkmen<\/p><\/td> | 1<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
Urdu<\/p><\/td> | 4<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
Uzbek<\/p><\/td> | 2<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
Vietnamese<\/p><\/td> | 2<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
Total<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 813<\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table> <\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty\u2019s Government which languages have been studied by civil servants and diplomatic staff at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Language School; and how many civil servants and diplomatic staff have studied each language.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty\u2019s Government whether they expect to see an increase in the numbers of United Kingdom civil servants capable of fulfilling the language requirements for applications to the European Civil Service; and if so by how many, and by when.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/100611/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "Full-time language training is available to all staff on appointment to one of the 674 designated \u2018speaker\u2019 roles based across the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO)\u2019s network of posts overseas. Appointment is made following an advert, application and selection by interview for a position. All positions (including speaker roles) in the Senior Management Service are also advertised across the Civil Service. A number of positions (including speaker roles) in the delegated grades are also advertised across the Civil Service via \u2018Interchange\u2019. All FCO staff (or staff from other governmental departments (OGDs) if on Interchange) and their spouses/partners posted to non-speaker roles in a foreign country also have the option of taking up language training to reach a basic level (Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) \u2013 A2 Confidence foreign language proficiency) to help settle into a new posting overseas. FCO staff who wish to develop skills in a foreign language can also attend a rolling programme of part-time lunchtime or evening classes in 12 languages. Where there is space in these classes, OGD staff are offered places based on language learning needs analyses by Departments. Language Services Direct (the company who run the FCO Language Centre) also provide part-time classes to a number of OGDs (the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, Cabinet Office, the Department for Energy and Climate Change, the Department for International Development, Members of Parliament, UK Hydrographic Office) on their own premises or at Language Services Direct premises (HM Revenue and Customs). Language Services Direct also run a bespoke training package for staff from both the FCO and across the Civil Service wishing to apply for positions within EU institutions. A number of OGDs also appoint staff, following their own internal appointment processes, to their own \u2018speaker\u2019 roles overseas and are able use the Language Centre for training, or receive training at their own premises from Language Services Direct. To-date over 130 OGD staff have been trained either full-time or part-time at the Centre or at their own premises."}
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, {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/100619", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "HM Treasury"}
], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/100619/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " Britain\u2019s long term economic plan is working, boosting economic security for Britain\u2019s hardworking people. The economy is growing, the deficit has fallen by a third and there are record levels of people in work. But the job is not done and the biggest risk now to the recovery would be abandoning the plan that is delivering a brighter economic future.<\/p> <\/p> The Government\u2019s strategy is to restore the public finances to a sustainable path and the UK is seen as a relative safe haven, with interest rates remaining historically low helping keep interest payments down for households, businesses and the taxpayer.<\/p> The IMF set out their latest forecasts in the October 2014 World Economic Outlook. <\/em>The publication recognises the Government\u2019s long term economic plan is working, that the UK is growing and leaving the crisis behind. The IMF project the UK economy to be the fastest growing G7 economy in 2014, at 3.2 per cent and 2.7 per cent in 2015. Furthermore, the IMF recognise that fiscal consolidation undertaken during the past few years has built trust among financial investors that current fiscal paths are sustainable.<\/p>"}
, "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4262", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Deighton"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty\u2019s Government, in the light of the latest revised forecast by the International Monetary Fund for the British economy, whether the Chancellor of the Exchequer still has confidence in its forecasting.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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, {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/100640", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Foreign and Commonwealth Office"}
], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/100640/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " We are concerned about the incidents which took place in recent weeks on both sides of the Line of Control and the International Border in Kashmir. We hope that both sides can take steps to reduce tensions. The longstanding position of the UK is that it is for India and Pakistan to find a lasting resolution to the situation in Kashmir, one which takes into account the wishes of the Kashmiri people. It is not for the UK to prescribe a solution or to mediate in finding one.<\/p>"}
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, "date" : {"_value" : "2014-10-23", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty\u2019s Government whether they have received reports about exchanges of fire on the Line of Control in Kashmir and on the working border between India and Pakistan; and whether they have provided any advice to India and Pakistan in order to resolve outstanding matters, including the right of self-determination for the Kashmiri people.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/100641/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " We have followed developments in the region and officials from our High Commissions in both Delhi and Islamabad discuss the situation in Kashmir with both governments. The long standing position of the UK is that it is for India and Pakistan to find a lasting resolution to the situation in Kashmir, one which takes into account the wishes of the Kashmiri people. It is not for the UK to prescribe a solution or to mediate in finding one.<\/p>"}
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, "date" : {"_value" : "2014-10-23", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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, {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/100652", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Foreign and Commonwealth Office"}
], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/100652/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " Our Embassy in Guatemala City represents the UK in Honduras and has raised Dina Meza\u2019s case with the Honduran authorities on several occasions, including with the Special Prosecutor for Human Rights. Our Embassy is in regular direct contact with Dina Meza herself, and is supporting a project concerning Freedom of Expression in Honduras, in which she is involved. Our Ambassador to Honduras has publicly stated our concern about crimes committed against journalists in Honduras. Officials will continue to monitor the situation closely.<\/p>"}
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, {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/100658", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Energy and Climate Change"}
], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/100658/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " The Climate Change Act established a legally binding target to reduce the UK\u2019s greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80% below base levels by 2050. The Act introduced a system of carbon budgets which provide legally binding limits on the amount of emissions that may be produced in successive five-year periods, setting the UK on a least cost trajectory to 2050.<\/p> A comprehensive package of policies has been put in place to meet future carbon budgets, which includes reducing the carbon intensity of power generation.<\/p> Electricity market reform (EMR) provides support for all low carbon technologies including nuclear, Carbon Capture Storage and renewables. The EMR delivery plan also provides an outlook to 2030 illustrating different scenarios for power sector decarbonisation consistent with our carbon plan and budgets.<\/p> This approach increases energy security and minimises costs to taxpayers and consumers, while reducing emissions.<\/p>"}
, "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/3790", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Baroness Verma"}
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, "date" : {"_value" : "2014-10-23", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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