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date	09/04/2019
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	Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
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 his counterpart in the US Administration on that Administration's to designate Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps (RGC) as a foreign terrorist organisation; and whether the Government has plans to proscribe the the RGC as a terrorist organisation.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	242680
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2019 answer text <p>We regularly engage with the US on Iran policy at a variety of levels, including through a visit to Washington by Our Ambassador to Iran last month.</p><p>We do not routinely comment on whether an organisation is or is not under consideration for proscription. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a whole and a number of associated individuals and entities remain subject to EU sanctions. We have long expressed our deep concerns about the IRGC’s destabilising activity both within and outside Iran, including its illicit economic activity and its role in Iran’s ballistic missile development and support to non-state groups around the region.</p> answering member constituency Cities of London and Westminster answering member printed Mark Field question first answered 15/04/2019 13:03:29 answering member 1405 label Biography information for Mark Field
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1110553

registered interest
date	09/04/2019
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	Embassies: Huawei
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 UK (a) embassies and (b) residences use Huawei equipment for their (i) internal and (ii) external communications.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	242931
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2019 answer text <p>The Foreign &amp; Commonwealth Office provides communications to its diplomatic premises around the world through the ECHO network delivered by Vodafone. The department does not keep a register of equipment used in the ECHO network. Many official residences also make use of ECHO connectivity, or contract local communications providers. The department does not keep a central register of equipment used for non-ECHO networks. Where communications are sensitive, data is encrypted to a suitable level across the ECHO network, thereby safeguarding the information.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 15/04/2019 13:48:36 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1110591

registered interest
date	09/04/2019
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	Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Secondment
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 Answer of 25 March 2019 to Question 234783 on Department for International Development: Secondment, what teams within his Department the five requested roles from the Department for International Development will be in.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	242920
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/04/2019 answer text <p>Staff on secondment from the Department for International Development to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office for EU exit purposes are being assigned to roles in the Directorate-General for EU Exit.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 17/04/2019 12:26:46 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill