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date	26/04/2016
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	Gedhun Choekyi Nyima
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he last made representations to the Chinese government on the fate of the Panchen Lama; and what response he received to such representations.
tabling member constituency	Dundee West
tabling member printed	Chris Law
uin	35550
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2016 answer text <p>As I said in my answer to PQ12772 on 29 October last year, we urge China to ensure that the restrictions on the Panchen Lama’s freedom of movement and communication are lifted, so that he may select the career, education or religious life of his choosing, wherever he is. We most recently raised the matter at the UK-China Human Rights Dialogue in 2014. We had no substantive response but the Chinese authorities stated in September 2015 that the Panchen Lama was “leading a normal life”. We will raise the matter again at the next round of the Human Rights Dialogue later this year.</p> answering member constituency East Devon answering member printed Mr Hugo Swire question first answered 04/05/2016 14:27:05 answering member 1408 label Biography information for Lord Swire
tabling member	4403 label Biography information for Chris Law

515852

registered interest
date	26/04/2016
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	China: 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 beneficial shifts in the human rights approach of the Chinese government there have been as a result of steps taken by his Department.
tabling member constituency	Dundee West
tabling member printed	Chris Law
uin	35592
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2016 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member to the 2015 Foreign and Commonwealth Office Annual Report on Human Rights and Democracy. The report, published on 21 April, is available: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/human-rights-and-democracy-report-2015</p> answering member constituency East Devon answering member printed Mr Hugo Swire question first answered 04/05/2016 14:44:34 answering member 1408 label Biography information for Lord Swire
tabling member	4403 label Biography information for Chris Law

515853

registered interest
date	26/04/2016
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	Tibet
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 he is taking with his EU counterparts to enable (a) EU diplomats and (b) journalists to enter Tibet.
tabling member constituency	Dundee West
tabling member printed	Chris Law
uin	35591
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2016 answer text <p>We support access to the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) for EU diplomats and a number have recently been granted access. The Ambassador of Denmark was the most recent high-level visitor in April and other senior EU diplomats, including from the UK, are planning a joint visit in 2016. For its part, the UK has a standing request to visit but, as we note in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s Annual Report on Human Rights and Democracy, China did not accept our requests in 2015. We also support access to the TAR for journalists. The Foreign Correspondents Club of China reports that approximately three-quarters of journalists had their application to visit Tibet denied in 2015. We consistently raise the issue of access to the TAR and media freedom in the annual UK-China human rights dialogue.</p> answering member constituency East Devon answering member printed Mr Hugo Swire question first answered 04/05/2016 14:35:36 answering member 1408 label Biography information for Lord Swire
tabling member	4403 label Biography information for Chris Law

515854

registered interest
date	26/04/2016
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	Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Tibet
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when (a) a minister and (b) officials in his Department last visited the area described by the Chinese government as the Tibetan Autonomous Region.
tabling member constituency	Dundee West
tabling member printed	Chris Law
uin	35590
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2016 answer text <p>The Hon. Member for Bury South (Mr Lewis) was the last serving Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) minister to visit the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), in September 2009. An FCO official last visited the TAR in June 2014. We continue to press the Chinese authorities for further access.</p> answering member constituency East Devon answering member printed Mr Hugo Swire question first answered 04/05/2016 14:28:04 answering member 1408 label Biography information for Lord Swire
tabling member	4403 label Biography information for Chris Law

515856

registered interest
date	26/04/2016
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	Tibet: Ethnic Groups
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 he has made of the proportion of (a) native Tibetans, (b) Han Chinese and (c) others who were resident in Tibet in (i) 2015, (ii) 2005 and (iii) 1995.
tabling member constituency	Dundee West
tabling member printed	Chris Law
uin	35531
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/05/2016 answer text <p>The Government does not collect this data.</p> answering member constituency East Devon answering member printed Mr Hugo Swire question first answered 05/05/2016 15:06:23 answering member 1408 label Biography information for Lord Swire
tabling member	4403 label Biography information for Chris Law

515857

registered interest
date	26/04/2016
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	Tibet: Religious 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 his policy is on whether decisions on the reincarnation of Tibetan Lamas should made made by the Tibetan people.
tabling member constituency	Dundee West
tabling member printed	Chris Law
uin	35532
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/05/2016 answer text <p>The Government does not have a policy on the reincarnation of Tibetan Lamas. We believe that everyone should be free to practise their religion according to their beliefs, and that all states should guarantee this freedom in line with international and domestic commitments.</p> answering member constituency East Devon answering member printed Mr Hugo Swire question first answered 05/05/2016 15:03:21 answering member 1408 label Biography information for Lord Swire
tabling member	4403 label Biography information for Chris Law

515858

registered interest
date	26/04/2016
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	Asia: Climate Change
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 Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change on the climate threat arising from Chinese activities affecting the third pole region.
tabling member constituency	Dundee West
tabling member printed	Chris Law
uin	35542
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2016 answer text <p>Ministers in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Department of Energy and Climate Change have not discussed this issue. However, the Tibet Society has been in contact with China Department about a report they produced on the Tibetan Plateau.</p> answering member constituency Rochford and Southend East answering member printed James Duddridge question first answered 04/05/2016 14:13:23 answering member 1559 label Biography information for Sir James Duddridge
tabling member	4403 label Biography information for Chris Law