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818565

registered interest
date	08/01/2018
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	Genocide Convention
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what legal opinion, if any, they have sought from experts on international law to clarify their obligations under the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL4442
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>Legal advice obtained by Her Majesty's Government (HMG) is confidential. Save in exceptional circumstances, HMG do not disclose whether legal advice has been sought; if so, what that advice was; or the source of such advice.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 22/01/2018 16:02:19 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

818568

registered interest
date	08/01/2018
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	Religious Freedom
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they are intending to review and strengthen their approach to addressing religious persecution worldwide; and what lessons they have learnt from steps taken by other countries in this regard, including the Hungary Helps initiative and the establishment on 1 January of the Danish Office for the Special Representative for Freedom of Religions or Belief.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL4445
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>All international efforts to promote the right to freedom of religion or belief are welcome. ​Her Majesty's Government notes with interest the 'Hungary Helps Initiative' and Denmark's appointment of a Special Representative on Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB). All governments engaged in defending and promoting FoRB can learn from each other. To that end, Foreign and Commonwealth (FCO) officials recently met with Denmark's Special Representative for FoRB to discuss this important issue.</p><p>The Government is constantly reviewing its own activities and looking for ways to strengthen our impact. Our approach is to work through bilateral and multilateral diplomacy, seeking to encourage states to uphold the principles enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, including those which defend the right to FoRB. I recently wrote to all Ambassadors and High Commissioners urging them to look for ways to promote and defend FoRB, as appropriate, in the countries to which they are accredited.</p><p>The British Government also continues to support a number of projects which promote FoRB through the FCO's Magna Carta Fund for Human Rights and Democracy. Examples include a project to support a network of human rights defenders in South Asia. In October 2017, I convened the first in a series of roundtable meetings on FoRB. These meetings will bring together faith leaders and civil society to discuss current challenges to FoRB internationally, and how we can collaborate to strengthen our response to these.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 22/01/2018 16:01:40 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

818579

registered interest
date	08/01/2018
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	USA: National Security
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they intend to make to the government of the United States following the publication of the US national security strategy on 18 December 2017.
tabling member printed	Lord Campbell of Pittenweem
uin	HL4456
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>The US and UK are very close allies and partners, with a uniquely broad and deep security relationship. We engage regularly and at all levels with the US authorities on these issues detailed in the strategy and other foreign policy and security issues vital to the UK's security and prosperity, and will continue to do so.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 22/01/2018 15:57:46 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	627 label Biography information for Lord Campbell of Pittenweem

818596

registered interest
date	08/01/2018
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	Bahrain: Capital Punishment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have made any representations to the government of Bahrain regarding (1) the death sentences passed on six civilians by the Supreme Military Court on 25 December 2017, and (2) the failure of the Military Court to consider allegations of torture when trying that case.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL4473
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>The UK is firmly opposed to the death penalty. It is the Government's longstanding position to oppose capital sentences in all circumstances and countries. We continue to make this clear to the Government of Bahrain and have raised these particular cases at senior levels.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 22/01/2018 15:57:14 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

818637

registered interest
date	08/01/2018
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	Israel: Palestinians
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they are making to the government of Israel following reports of the death of a Palestinian child on 29 December 2017 after Israeli soldiers at Huwwara checkpoint delayed her transfer to hospital.
tabling member printed	Baroness Tonge
uin	HL4514
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>While we have not raised this specific issue with the Israeli authorities, we continue to lobby on the issue of movement and access in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The UK has consistently called on the Israeli Government to ease restrictions that reduce access to medical care for Palestinians.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 22/01/2018 16:04:31 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	200 label Biography information for Baroness Tonge

818638

registered interest
date	08/01/2018
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	Gaza: Energy
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they have made to the government of Israel about the report of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs published on 28 December 2017 which found that the energy crisis in the Gaza Strip is worsening.
tabling member printed	Baroness Tonge
uin	HL4515
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>There is an urgent need to address the difficult situation in Gaza. We welcome the news that Israel has resumed supplying more electricity to Gaza. This has contributed to returning the electricity supply to Gaza to 7/8 hours per day, up from 3/4 hours per day, following an official request by the Palestinian Authority.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 22/01/2018 16:03:43 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	200 label Biography information for Baroness Tonge

818642

registered interest
date	08/01/2018
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	Hebron: Religious Freedom
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the right to freedom of religion in Hebron following reports that the Israeli occupation authorities prevented the call for prayer on a large number of occasions in 2017; and what representations they have made to the government of Israel regarding such reports.
tabling member printed	Baroness Tonge
uin	HL4519
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>​The UK is strongly committed to freedom of worship. We will look into the circumstances surrounding this issue, and seek clarification from the appropriate Israeli authorities.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 22/01/2018 16:03:00 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	200 label Biography information for Baroness Tonge

818666

registered interest
date	08/01/2018
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	Israel: Detainees
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he plans to make representations to the Government of Israel on the military detention of human rights defenders, Ahed Tamimi, and her mother, Nariman Tamimi.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	121430
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2018 answer text <p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office raised Ahed Tamimi’s case with the Israeli Ambassador to London on 8 January. On 2 January, officials from our Embassy in Tel Aviv raised this case with the Israeli authorities, noting the British Government's long-standing concerns about the treatment of Palestinian minors in Israeli military detention. We are also aware of the arrest of Nariman Tamimi on charges of inciting violence, and will seek further details from the appropriate Israeli authorities.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 17/01/2018 16:30:04 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion