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844704

registered interest
date	20/02/2018
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	Turkey: Human Rights
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What recent discussions he has had with his Turkish counterpart on the arrests of human rights defenders in that country.
tabling member constituency	Chelmsford
tabling member printed	Vicky Ford
uin	903907
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2018 answer text <p>The Foreign Secretary most recently raised this issue with Foreign Minister Cavuşoğlu on 1 February. Both he and I regularly discuss human rights concerns with our Turkish counterparts. We urge Turkey to respect its international human rights obligations and to uphold the rule of law.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 20/02/2018 17:14:33 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford

843553

registered interest
date	19/02/2018
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to support freedom of religion and belief in other countries to meet the strategic commitment to supporting freedom of religion and belief set out in the FCO Departmental Plan 2015-2020.
tabling member constituency	Luton South
tabling member printed	Mr Gavin Shuker
uin	127894
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2018 answer text <p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Departmental Plan 2015-2020 was replaced in December 2017 with the FCO Single Departmental Plan which can be found on gov.uk. In step with the new plan, the FCO continues to promote and defend human rights, including the right to freedom of religion or belief (FoRB).</p><p>In our ongoing dialogue with foreign governments and through public statements, the FCO raises individual cases and highlights practices and laws that discriminate against people on the basis of their religion or belief. For example, during my visit to Pakistan in November 2017, I raised the treatment of religious minorities, including discrimination and violence against the Ahmadiyya and Christian communities, with Pakistan's Ministry of Human Rights.</p><p>The United Kingdom also actively promotes FoRB through multilateral diplomacy. At the United Nations, we work to maintain consensus on the adoption and implementation of the European Union sponsored Resolution on 'Freedom of Religion or Belief' and the Organisation for Islamic Cooperation sponsored Resolution on 'Combating Religious Intolerance'.</p><p>Through the Magna Carta Fund for Human Rights and Democracy, the FCO continues to support a number of projects to promote tolerance. Current projects include work to promote religious tolerance through secondary school curricula in Iraq, Morocco and Lebanon, and a project which supports a network of human rights defenders in South Asia working on this priority.</p> answering member constituency Cities of London and Westminster answering member printed Mark Field question first answered 27/02/2018 15:45:30 answering member 1405 label Biography information for Mark Field
tabling member	4013 label Biography information for Mr Gavin Shuker

843618

registered interest
date	19/02/2018
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	Australia: 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 has held discussions with his counterpart in the Australian Government on the detention of two UK citizens from Edinburgh East by the Australian Border Force following the letter from the hon. Member for Edinburgh East of 16 January 2018.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
tabling member printed	Tommy Sheppard
uin	127959
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2018 answer text <p>The operation of the Australian Immigration system is a matter for the Australian Government. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has however been assured by the Australian High Commission that a review of the case is taking place.</p> answering member constituency Cities of London and Westminster answering member printed Mark Field question first answered 22/02/2018 17:21:42 answering member 1405 label Biography information for Mark Field
tabling member	4453 label Biography information for Tommy Sheppard

843684

registered interest
date	19/02/2018
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	Mexico: Missing Persons
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 officials in his Department have had with Mexican officials on the implementation of the new general law on disappearances.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	128025
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2018 answer text <p>​Our Embassy in Mexico has actively engaged with officials at the National Security Commission and the Attorney General's Office on the new law on disappearances. A delegation of Mexican officials will visit the UK to share best practice.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 22/02/2018 17:23:36 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

843743

registered interest
date	19/02/2018
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	EU Defence Policy: British Nationals Abroad
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many British nationals were seconded to EU military and civilian missions and operations, in which countries those missions were located and by which EU treaty those missions were created, in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff North
tabling member printed	Anna McMorrin
uin	128168
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2018 answer text <p>In 2017, 82 British nationals were deployed to EU Common Security and Defence Policy military operations and missions: 57 at the UK headquarters of the Naval Force for Somalia, eight to the Training Mission in Mali, seven to Force Althea in Bosnia and Herzegovina, six to the Naval Force in the Mediterranean, and four to the Training Mission in Somalia. A further 120 personnel were in the intermediate reserve held in the UK for Force Althea.</p><p>25 British nationals were deployed to civilian missions: nine to the Monitoring Mission in Georgia, six to the Advisory Mission in Ukraine, six to the EU Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo, three to the Kosovo Specialist Chambers and Specialist Prosecutor's Office in the Netherlands, and one to the Capacity Building Mission in Mali.</p><p>These operations and missions were established under the Treaty of European Union, as amended by the Maastricht Treaty in the cases of Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia and Naval Force Somalia; and as amended by the Treaty of Lisbon in the cases of Ukraine, Mali, the Mediterranean, and the Training Mission to Somalia.</p><p>The information requested on UK personnel for the years since 2008 is not held centrally but I refer the hon. Member the answer given by my hon. Friend the then Minister for the Armed Forces (Mr Francois) of 1 December 2014 to (PQ) 214602 to the hon. Member for Wrexham (Mr Lucas), and to the House of Lords Library Research Briefing &quot;Leaving the European Union: UK Armed Forces and Diplomatic Service&quot; published on 2 December 2016 (<a href="http://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/LLN-2016-0066#fullreport" target="_blank">http://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/LLN-2016-0066#fullreport</a>).</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 22/02/2018 17:26:42 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4632 label Biography information for Anna McMorrin

843751

registered interest
date	19/02/2018
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	Ottawa Convention
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to support the international community's commitment to the Ottawa Mine Ban Treaty.
tabling member constituency	Hyndburn
tabling member printed	Graham P Jones
uin	128189
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2018 answer text <p>As one of its founding signatories, the UK strongly supports the international community's commitment to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction (known as the Ottawa Convention). As well as working to meet our own convention-based commitments to clear our sovereign territory in the Falkland Islands of anti-personnel mines, the UK is committed to the global efforts to tackle the scourge of anti-personnel mines through our international mine action programmes. As a demonstration of the UK's commitment, the Secretary of State for the Department for International Development announced on 4 April 2017 that the UK would triple its spending on mine action in developing countries, taking UK expenditure to £100million over the three years to March 2020. The UK also regularly encourages states who have not signed the Convention to do so, most recently fully supporting Austria, as the outgoing President of the Convention, in urging all non-States Parties to join without delay, as well as encouraging signatory states to fulfil their obligations.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 27/02/2018 17:31:35 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	3999 label Biography information for Graham P Jones

843775

registered interest
date	19/02/2018
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	Tibet: 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 he has had with his counterpart in the Chinese Government on (a) the status of and (b) human rights in Tibet.
tabling member constituency	Aberavon
tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
uin	128213
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2018 answer text <p>The Government position regarding the status of the Tibet Autonomous Region remains consistent. We regard it as part of the People's Republic of China (PRC). We regularly urge China to respect all fundamental rights across the PRC, including in Tibet, in line with both its own constitution and the international frameworks to which it is a party.</p><p>We pay close attention to the human rights and wider situation in Tibet and the Government regularly raises the issue with the Chinese authorities. We raised our concerns directly with the Chinese authorities at the last round of the UK/China Human Rights Dialogue which took place in Beijing on 27 June 2017. We also set out our human rights concerns about China, and specifically in the Tibet Autonomous Region, in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office annual report on Human Rights and Democracy, which was issued on 20 July 2017.</p> answering member constituency Cities of London and Westminster answering member printed Mark Field question first answered 27/02/2018 15:50:21 answering member 1405 label Biography information for Mark Field
tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock

843779

registered interest
date	19/02/2018
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	Sri Lanka: 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 assessment he has made of the human rights record of the Government of Sri Lanka.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	128217
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2018 answer text <p>The UK is committed to the full implementation of UN Human Rights Council Resolution 34/1, under which Sri Lanka committed to implement a range of measures to provide for human rights, truth-seeking, reconciliation, and devolution of political powers following the end of its civil war. I encouraged Foreign Minister Marapana to continue to make progress on these commitments when I met him in Colombo, in October 2017. Our High Commission in Sri Lanka regularly travel to the North and East (as did I to Jaffna during that visit) and meet with local groups, and where we have specific human rights concerns we raise these with the Sri Lankan government.</p><p>This year the UK will continue to encourage progress on human rights issues, including modern slavery, gender inequality, and reform of discriminatory laws.</p> answering member constituency Cities of London and Westminster answering member printed Mark Field question first answered 27/02/2018 15:54:18 answering member 1405 label Biography information for Mark Field
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

843780

registered interest
date	19/02/2018
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	Sri Lanka: 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 steps the Government is taking to help ensure that the Sri Lankan Government observes UN Human Rights Council Resolution 30/1 on promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	128218
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2018 answer text <p>The UK is closely monitoring delivery of the commitments made by the Government of Sri Lanka under UN Human Rights Council Resolution 34/1 (which rolls over commitments under 30/1), in collaboration with the UN, international partners, Government of Sri Lanka and civil society.</p><p>During my visit to Colombo and Jaffna in October 2017 I discussed the importance of the Sri Lankan government meeting its obligations. Among these were establishing transitional justice mechanisms, including a credible accountability process for those most responsible for violations and abuses during Sri Lanka's civil war and the return of military held civilian land, particularly in the predominantly Tamil north and east.</p><p>The UK continues to support the Government of Sri Lanka in its efforts to promote reconciliation and human rights. And we anticipate making further representations on the publication this march of the UN Interim Report on the implementation of Resolution 34/1. The UK is also providing Sri Lanka with £6.6 million of Conflict, Stability and Security Fund funding over three years, to include support for police reform and training, reconciliation and peace building, and demining in the north of the country.</p> answering member constituency Cities of London and Westminster answering member printed Mark Field question first answered 27/02/2018 16:04:24 answering member 1405 label Biography information for Mark Field
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

843794

registered interest
date	19/02/2018
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	Caribbean: Humanitarian Aid
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 has he had with Cabinet colleagues on ensuring continued humanitarian assistance to those Overseas Territories in the Caribbean which were damaged by hurricanes in 2017.
tabling member constituency	Ludlow
tabling member printed	Mr Philip Dunne
uin	128232
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2018 answer text <p>The Prime Minister tasked the Foreign Secretary to establish and chair an Interministerial Group to oversee and coordinate the Government's response to hurricane recovery in the region. That group was last updated on recovery efforts at the beginning of this month and will next meet in March.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 27/02/2018 12:43:19 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne