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date	09/03/2016
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: EU Accession
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will hold a referendum in the UK before they agree to the accession of Turkey to the EU.
tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
uin	HL6874
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text Decisions on accession to the EU are subject to strict conditionality, and made on a case by case basis. All new accessions are subject to agreement by all 28 Member States at every step of the negotiations. If and when, at the end of successful negotiations, Member States have unanimously agreed to admit a candidate country to membership, the resulting Accession Treaty must be ratified by each Member State in accordance with their own respective national arrangements, and also approved by the European Parliament. In the case of the UK, the EU Act 2011 requires any Accession Treaty to be ratified by Act of Parliament. answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 21/03/2016 16:58:38 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon

459007

registered interest
date	09/03/2016
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	UK Membership of EU
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to the report, The process for withdrawing from the EU Cm9216, published on 29 February 2016, if he will take steps to ensure that, in the event of the UK leaving the EU, the principles enshrined within Protocol 3 of the 1972 Accession Treaty are retained following the negotiation of the UK's relationship with the EU.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	30550
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2016 answer text <p>The Channel Islands and the Isle of Man have a special relationship with the EU, provided under Protocol 3 to the UK’s Treaty of Accession to the European Community. The procedure governing a country’s departure from the EU is set out in Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union. This provides for a period of two years for the negotiation of exit terms. After two years, the departing Member State is deemed to have left the EU, meaning that both the rights and the obligations that derive from membership would lapse. This two year deadline can be extended, but only by unanimous agreement of all EU Member States.</p><p>At the February European Council, the Government negotiated a new settlement, giving the United Kingdom a special status in a reformed European Union. The Government's position, as set out by the Prime Minister, my Rt Hon. Friend the Member for Witney (Mr Cameron), to the House on 22 February, is that the UK will be stronger, safer and better off remaining in a reformed EU.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 24/03/2016 11:31:33 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

459013

registered interest
date	09/03/2016
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	Honduras: Homicide
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the government of Honduras on the death of Berta Cáceras.
tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
uin	30537
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2016 answer text The UK is deeply concerned by the murder on 03 March 2016 of Honduran human rights and environmental activist Berta Cáceres. As one of the most prominent activists in Honduras, Berta Cáceres worked tirelessly over many years to promote the rights of indigenous communities. My Noble Friend, The Rt Hon Baroness Anelay of St Johns, Foreign and Commonwealth Minister of State for Human Rights, condemned the murder in the clearest terms on 04 March and also called for the perpetrators to be brought to justice. These points and a wider call for a commitment to human rights and those who defend them, were set out in an EU statement which the UK has strongly supported. Since initial events, the EU delegation in Honduras has been in contact with the main stakeholders and will continue to follow up. The Honduran authorities are now taking forward an investigation into what happened. While it is too early to comment on its outcome, we welcome their swift action to initiate an investigation. Cáceres’ death – and the injuries sustained by Gustavo Castro Soto, a human rights defender who was also a victim in the attack – are clear evidence of the risks activists face in Honduras every day. We continue to call on the Honduran Government to take steps to improve the security situation, and we raise our human rights concerns with them regularly – as the Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my right hon. Friend the Member for East Devon (Mr Swire) did during a visit to the UK by a Honduran parliamentary delegation in September 2015. These issues are discussed with the Honduran authorities during frequent visits to the country by Carolyn Davidson, Our Ambassador to Honduras, resident in Guatemala, and we seek to improve the situation on the ground through a range of Embassy-sponsored projects, including with Oxfam and the Tribunal for Women Against Femicide. We also maintain a close dialogue with NGOs and others with an interest in Honduras, such as Peace Brigade International. answering member constituency Runnymede and Weybridge answering member printed Mr Philip Hammond question first answered 14/03/2016 14:30:43 answering member 105 label Biography information for Lord Hammond of Runnymede
tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

459014

registered interest
date	09/03/2016
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	Germany: Refugees
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the statement of the Minister for Europe of 9 March 2016 that after 10 years only about 2.2 per cent of the refugees who arrived in Germany have been granted German citizenship, what source that figure is based on; how that figure was calculated; and what information his Department holds on comparative figures for other EU countries.
tabling member constituency	Bury North
tabling member printed	Mr David Nuttall
uin	30572
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2016 answer text <p>The figure of 2.2 per cent is the percentage of foreign nationals resident for at least ten years in Germany who have become naturalised German citizens. It is known as the “Exhausted Naturalisation Potential” and is calculated by the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF).</p><p>The source is the 2014 Migration Report, published in January this year which can be found on the BAMF website:</p><p>http://www.bamf.de/SharedDocs/Anlagen/DE/Publikationen/Migrationsberichte/migrationsbericht-2014.html</p><p>Comparative figures for other EU states are not held centrally by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 16/03/2016 17:43:43 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington previous answer version 51161 answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	4140 label Biography information for Mr David Nuttall

459019

registered interest
date	09/03/2016
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	Zimbabwe: 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, if he will make representations to the government of Zimbabwe on (a) the provision of information on Itai Dzamara and (b) the ratification of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	30483
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2016 answer text <p>Since the abduction of human rights defender Mr Itai Dzamara in March 2015, the UK has worked closely with international partners to raise awareness of his case and to put pressure on the Government of Zimbabwe to investigate it. We regularly raise Mr Dzamara’s disappearance in the course of our discussions with the Government of Zimbabwe. Following a number of statements in 2015, the EU Delegation to Zimbabwe released a further statement on 9 March, in agreement with EU Heads of Mission in Zimbabwe, marking the one year anniversary of Mr Dzamara’s disappearance and expressing its deep disappointment at the lack of progress in this case. We urge the Government of Zimbabwe to take effective steps to prevent the disappearance of human rights defenders and other activists and to investigate existing cases.</p><p>The UK is not a signatory to the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and therefore has not made representations to the Government of Zimbabwe to ratify it. However, there is an existing UK framework which protects human rights, prevents arbitrary arrests and holds national security organisations to account.</p> answering member constituency Rochford and Southend East answering member printed James Duddridge question first answered 15/03/2016 15:15:48 answering member 1559 label Biography information for Sir James Duddridge
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day