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date	21/04/2017
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	Syria: Chemical Weapons
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what plans the Government has to seek the agreement of the (a) OPCW Executive Council, (b) Conference of States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention and (c) UN Security Council on punitive measures against the Government of Syria in the event that the use of chemical weapons by that Government in Khan Sheikhoun on 4 April 2017 is confirmed by the OPCW-UN Joint Investigative Mechanism.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	71566
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2017 answer text <p>​​The UK has been at the forefront of those making the case that those found responsible for chemical weapons attacks must be held to account. A UK-US-French attempt to agree UN sanctions in response to previous chemical weapons attacks was vetoed by Russia and China in the UN Security Council on 28 February. In March we helped secure agreement from the EU to add 4 Syrian military officials to the sanctions list for their role in carrying out chemical weapon attacks. We welcome the further sanctions Canada and the US have introduced in recent days. We will continue work with partners to take action against those responsible for chemical weapons attacks.</p> answering member constituency Uxbridge and South Ruislip answering member printed Boris Johnson question first answered 26/04/2017 11:29:49 answering member 1423 label Biography information for Boris Johnson
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

723134

registered interest
date	21/04/2017
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	Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the Government's priorities were for the 54th Special Session of the OPCW Executive Council on 13 and 19 April 2017; what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the outcome of those meetings; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	71568
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2017 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">​The UK has been at the forefront of those making the case that those found responsible for chemical weapons attacks must be held to account. A UK-US-French attempt to agree UN sanctions in response to previous chemical weapons attacks was vetoed by Russia and China in the UN Security Council on 28 February. In March we helped secure agreement from the EU to add 4 Syrian military officials to the sanctions list for their role in carrying out chemical weapon attacks. We welcome the further sanctions Canada and the US have introduced in recent days. We will continue work with partners to take action against those responsible for chemical weapons attacks. </del><ins class="ministerial">The UK’s priority for the recent session of the OPCW Executive Council was to make clear international condemnation of the 4 April Khan Sheikhoun attack and to confirm our support for the OPCW investigation which began immediately following that attack. We welcome the Executive Council’s overwhelming vote on 20 April to reject a Russian-Iranian proposal which would have distracted from and undermined the OPCW expert investigations which are already under way. We will continue to support the work of the OPCW Fact Finding Mission and the OPCW-UN Joint Investigative Mechanism.</ins></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Uxbridge and South Ruislip answering member printed Boris Johnson question first answered 26/04/2017 13:30:31 question first ministerially corrected 27/04/2017 15:35:02 answering member 1423 label Biography information for Boris Johnson previous answer version 45979 answering member constituency Uxbridge and South Ruislip answering member printed Boris Johnson answering member 1423 label Biography information for Boris Johnson
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

723136

registered interest
date	21/04/2017
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	Syria: Chemical Weapons
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate the Government has made of the (a) size of the chemical weapons stockpile and (b) number of chemical weapons production facilities not formally declared to the OPCW by the Government of Syria.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	71567
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2017 answer text <p>​The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons(OPCW) is responsible for verifying Syria's declaration and its Director General has reported to the Executive Council that despite a significant amount of time and resource devoted to engagement with the Syrian authorities over the last three years, &quot;gaps, inconsistencies and discrepancies remain in the Government of Syria's declaration to the OPCW&quot;. These gaps and continuing attacks mean that the OPCW, with our strong support, continues to investigate Syria's declaration to seek to uncover the full picture.</p> answering member constituency Uxbridge and South Ruislip answering member printed Boris Johnson question first answered 26/04/2017 11:25:16 answering member 1423 label Biography information for Boris Johnson
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

723139

registered interest
date	21/04/2017
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	Syria: Chemical Weapons
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 for the OPCW Executive Council to convene in Special Session when the Fact finding Mission in Syria completes its investigation of the attack of 4 April 2017 in Khan Sheikhoun; and what priorities the Government has planned for such a meeting in the event that the use of chemical weapons in the attack is confirmed by the Fact Finding Mission.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	71570
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2017 answer text <p>​The Government's priority is that the Khan Sheikhoun attack is investigated and that those responsible are held to account. Once the Fact Finding Mission has determined that chemical weapons have or have likely been used in Syria, it is for the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons-UN Joint Investigative Mechanism to seek to attribute responsibility. We will work with partners to support that process.</p><p>The OPCW Executive Council met in special session on 13, 19 and 20 April to discuss the response to the Khan Sheikhoun attack and we will consider whether a further meeting of the Executive Council could usefully support that process.</p> answering member constituency Uxbridge and South Ruislip answering member printed Boris Johnson question first answered 26/04/2017 13:32:06 answering member 1423 label Biography information for Boris Johnson
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry