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1540568

registered interest
date	08/11/2022
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	British Indian Ocean Territory: Sovereignty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Defence on the sovereignty of the British Indian Overseas Territory.
tabling member constituency	Shrewsbury and Atcham
tabling member printed	Daniel Kawczynski
uin	82214
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2022 answer text <p>The FCDO and MOD Secretaries of State, Ministers and officials are in regular contact on a range of issues, including the British Indian Ocean Territory/Chagos Archipelago.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 15/11/2022 16:25:25 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	1566 label Biography information for Daniel Kawczynski

1540570

registered interest
date	08/11/2022
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	British Indian Ocean Territory: Sovereignty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has had recent discussions with the United Nations on the sovereignty of the British Indian Overseas Territory.
tabling member constituency	Shrewsbury and Atcham
tabling member printed	Daniel Kawczynski
uin	82216
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2022 answer text <p>The Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs has not had recent discussions with the United Nations on the sovereignty of the British Indian Overseas Territory/Chagos Archipelago.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 15/11/2022 16:28:15 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	1566 label Biography information for Daniel Kawczynski

1540643

registered interest
date	08/11/2022
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Egypt: Conflict, Stability and Security Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has plans to review the UK's funding for Egypt's security bodies via the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund in light of (a) the continued refusal to release Alaa Abd El-Fattah and other political prisoners in Egypt and (b) other human rights violations in that country.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	82429
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2022 answer text <p>The Conflict, Stability and Security (CSSF) Fund programme in Egypt promotes the participation of women and girls, quality and accessible education for all, inclusive governance, and support to refugees. It does not provide funding to the Egyptian security services. The CSSF Portfolio Board regularly reviews risk across all countries in which we have a programme. Human rights issues are considered as part of this and in this context, the Board discussed the situation in several countries, including Egypt, at the last board meeting in October. Overseas Security and Justice Assessments (OSJAs) are not published.</p><p>Egypt is a human rights priority country for the UK. Our strong bilateral relationship allows us to raise human rights issues frankly with the Egyptian government, both in private and public. The Prime Minister met with Egyptian President Sisi on 7 November to register his concern for Mr. Adb El-Fattah's welfare and expectation the case will be resolved quickly. The UK also issued a statement at the UN Human Rights Council in September calling on Egypt to ensure independent civil society, human rights defenders and media are able to operate freely.</p> answering member constituency Berwick-upon-Tweed answering member printed Anne-Marie Trevelyan grouped question UIN 82430 82431 question first answered 15/11/2022 17:09:17 answering member 4531 label Biography information for Anne-Marie Trevelyan
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1540664

registered interest
date	08/11/2022
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Egypt: Conflict, Stability and Security Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will publish the Overseas Security and Justice Assessments for Conflict, Stability and Security Fund programmes operating in Egypt.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	82430
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2022 answer text <p>The Conflict, Stability and Security (CSSF) Fund programme in Egypt promotes the participation of women and girls, quality and accessible education for all, inclusive governance, and support to refugees. It does not provide funding to the Egyptian security services. The CSSF Portfolio Board regularly reviews risk across all countries in which we have a programme. Human rights issues are considered as part of this and in this context, the Board discussed the situation in several countries, including Egypt, at the last board meeting in October. Overseas Security and Justice Assessments (OSJAs) are not published.</p><p>Egypt is a human rights priority country for the UK. Our strong bilateral relationship allows us to raise human rights issues frankly with the Egyptian government, both in private and public. The Prime Minister met with Egyptian President Sisi on 7 November to register his concern for Mr. Adb El-Fattah's welfare and expectation the case will be resolved quickly. The UK also issued a statement at the UN Human Rights Council in September calling on Egypt to ensure independent civil society, human rights defenders and media are able to operate freely.</p> answering member constituency Berwick-upon-Tweed answering member printed Anne-Marie Trevelyan grouped question UIN 82429 82431 question first answered 15/11/2022 17:09:17 answering member 4531 label Biography information for Anne-Marie Trevelyan
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1540679

registered interest
date	08/11/2022
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Egypt: Conflict, Stability and Security Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, when the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund Portfolio Board last met to discuss human rights risks in Egypt.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	82431
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2022 answer text <p>The Conflict, Stability and Security (CSSF) Fund programme in Egypt promotes the participation of women and girls, quality and accessible education for all, inclusive governance, and support to refugees. It does not provide funding to the Egyptian security services. The CSSF Portfolio Board regularly reviews risk across all countries in which we have a programme. Human rights issues are considered as part of this and in this context, the Board discussed the situation in several countries, including Egypt, at the last board meeting in October. Overseas Security and Justice Assessments (OSJAs) are not published.</p><p>Egypt is a human rights priority country for the UK. Our strong bilateral relationship allows us to raise human rights issues frankly with the Egyptian government, both in private and public. The Prime Minister met with Egyptian President Sisi on 7 November to register his concern for Mr. Adb El-Fattah's welfare and expectation the case will be resolved quickly. The UK also issued a statement at the UN Human Rights Council in September calling on Egypt to ensure independent civil society, human rights defenders and media are able to operate freely.</p> answering member constituency Berwick-upon-Tweed answering member printed Anne-Marie Trevelyan grouped question UIN 82429 82430 question first answered 15/11/2022 17:09:17 answering member 4531 label Biography information for Anne-Marie Trevelyan
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1540693

registered interest
date	08/11/2022
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Migration: Treaties
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with representatives of the governments of (a) Belize, (b) Peru, (c) Paraguay and (d) any other country on potential bilateral agreements with the UK on migration.
tabling member constituency	Aberavon
tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
uin	82328
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2022 answer text <p>Our world-leading Migration and Economic Development Partnership with Rwanda will help break the business model of criminal people smuggling gangs and save lives. We are committed to working with a range of international partners to tackle the global migration crisis and are always in talks with a range of partners about how we can work together.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 15/11/2022 17:01:58 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock

1540756

registered interest
date	08/11/2022
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Development Aid: Climate Change
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department has ringfenced spending on climate change mitigation and adaptation within the overseas development assistance budget for financial year 2022-23, at the same levels as 2021-22; and if he will make it his policy to ringfence funding at the same level for financial year 2023-24.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	82211
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2022 answer text <p>The UK Government committed to doubling International Climate Finance to £11.6 billion from 2021/22. It is not our policy to ringfence funding by financial year because of the need to retain flexibility and respond to real world events.</p> answering member constituency Berwick-upon-Tweed answering member printed Anne-Marie Trevelyan question first answered 15/11/2022 16:39:15 answering member 4531 label Biography information for Anne-Marie Trevelyan
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

1540762

registered interest
date	08/11/2022
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Iran: Demonstrations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has had recent discussions with his Iranian counterpart on reports of indiscriminate violence by Iranian security forces against protesters in Sanandaj.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
tabling member printed	Tommy Sheppard
uin	82357
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2022 answer text <p>The Iranian regime's violent repression of the Iranian people, including in Sanandaj and the Kurdistan Province, is a stark reminder of the deplorable status of human rights in Iran. The Foreign Secretary summoned Iran's most senior diplomat in the UK on 3 October, we then reiterated with him on 26 October, our absolute condemnation of Iran's nationwide crackdown on peaceful protestors. The UK raises human rights at all appropriate opportunities, in London and via His Majesty's Ambassador in Tehran. The UK maintains close to 300 sanctions designations against Iran, in relation to nuclear proliferation, terrorism and including 87 human rights designations. We work with international partners to hold Iran to account, through the UN Human Rights Council, Security Council, G7 and the UN General Assembly Third Committee.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 16/11/2022 11:41:06 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	4453 label Biography information for Tommy Sheppard

1540782

registered interest
date	08/11/2022
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Tigray: Armed Conflict
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether she has held discussions with her counterparts in (a) Ethiopia and (b) Eritrea on ending aerial and ground bombardment of civilians in the Tigray region of Ethiopia.
tabling member constituency	Camberwell and Peckham
tabling member printed	Ms Harriet Harman
uin	82148
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2022 answer text <p>The former Minister for Development visited Ethiopia on 19-20 October. She met Ethiopia President Sahle-Work and Deputy Prime Minister Demeke and raised the protection of civilians. The British Ambassador to Eritrea has regularly raised human rights issues, and the impact of its involvement in the war in northern Ethiopia on civilians, with the Eritrean Government. The indiscriminate targeting of civilian areas, no matter the weapon used, is against international law, and is unacceptable We have made numerous public statements urging all parties to the conflict to prioritise the protection of civilians. We welcome the 2 November peace agreement.</p> answering member constituency Sutton Coldfield answering member printed Mr Andrew Mitchell question first answered 14/11/2022 15:19:47 answering member 1211 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Mitchell
tabling member	150 label Biography information for Ms Harriet Harman

1540784

registered interest
date	08/11/2022
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Ethiopia: Human Rights
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department is taking steps to help ensure that the second phase of the investigations by the International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia has full (a) access to all parties in Ethiopia and (b) funding.
tabling member constituency	Camberwell and Peckham
tabling member printed	Ms Harriet Harman
uin	82150
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2022 answer text <p>The UK is strongly supporting all efforts to ensure accountability for violations and abuses, including by the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission and the International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia (ICHREE). The UK co-sponsored the December 2021 resolution at the Human Rights Council which established the Commission. We also co-sponsored the October 2022 resolution at the Human Rights Council to extend the Commission's mandate. We have urged all parties to cooperate with the Commission's investigation. The former Minister for Development raised this on several occasions with the Ethiopian Ambassador.</p> answering member constituency Sutton Coldfield answering member printed Mr Andrew Mitchell question first answered 15/11/2022 16:14:57 answering member 1211 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Mitchell
tabling member	150 label Biography information for Ms Harriet Harman