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HANSARDSri LankaThe UK Government are committed to human rights in Sri Lanka and are leading international efforts to promote accountability and human rights, including at the UN Human Rights…25 Feb 2025HANSARDSri LankaIn October 2024, the UK and our core group partners got a resolution on Sri Lanka in the UN Human Rights Council, outlining just what the hon. Member says. It renewed the mandate…25 Feb 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe regularly engage with Northern Ireland on all matters of foreign policy. However, this Chinese consular matter is not something that Ministers can discuss at the Dispatch Box.25 Feb 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsMinisters have engaged frankly with counterparts in India on Mr Johal’s case, pushing for faster progress towards a resolution, including the call for an investigation into…14 Jan 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe UK Government have been in touch with the South Koreans, our great friends, and we continue to support the arrangements there, any democratic moves towards stability and the…14 Jan 2025HANSARD Pro-democracy Campaigners: ArrestsI thank my hon. Friend for being such an involved constituency Member and for being so responsive over the Christmas period. A number of every active MPs are sitting behind me.…07 Jan 2025HANSARD Pro-democracy Campaigners: ArrestsI will, of course. Would my right hon. Friend write to me with the exact details and his most recent update? I have had the privilege of meeting trade union colleagues from Hong…07 Jan 2025HANSARD Pro-democracy Campaigners: ArrestsYes, of course, but it is a fairly broad audit, so if there is anything specific that my hon. Friend would like our officials to look at, will he send me just a couple of…07 Jan 2025HANSARD Pro-democracy Campaigners: ArrestsThis urgent question is about Hong Kong, but I think it is very important that when international courts make decisions—be that on the United Nations convention on the law of the…07 Jan 2025HANSARD Pro-democracy Campaigners: ArrestsI thank the hon. Member for his question and, with his permission, I will take it away to see which hub he is closest to. Twelve hubs were set up specifically for the welcome…07 Jan 2025HANSARD Pro-democracy Campaigners: ArrestsWe will always maintain our flexibility on Magnitsky sanctions; that is the benefit of them, post Brexit, as we have our own sanctions programme now. The hon. Member will be aware…07 Jan 2025HANSARD Pro-democracy Campaigners: ArrestsI do not think the hon. and learned Member intended a pun with “united front”. Taking his point very seriously, I think we could be doing more, and if he could write to me with…07 Jan 2025HANSARD Pro-democracy Campaigners: ArrestsI thank the hon. Member for relentlessly raising in the House the issue of human rights and the concerns of his constituents. May I refer them to the excellent welcome programme,…07 Jan 2025HANSARD Pro-democracy Campaigners: ArrestsThe hon. Member asks a very important question. There is a three-legged approach in good foreign policy, with national security first, human rights as our duty, and an eye to our…07 Jan 2025HANSARD Pro-democracy Campaigners: ArrestsI thank my hon. Friend for his excellent constituency work, and for knowing his constituents so well such a short time after being elected. I can reassure him that if he feels…07 Jan 2025HANSARD Pro-democracy Campaigners: ArrestsThe right hon. Gentleman can obviously read his coffee cup granules or tea leaves better than I can. I do not know, but I am concerned about the increasing regularity of these…07 Jan 2025HANSARD Pro-democracy Campaigners: ArrestsI fully accept that, as a sanctioned MP, the right hon. Gentleman is very concerned. I respect and admire his doggedness in raising these issues in the House. I hope he will reply…07 Jan 2025HANSARD Pro-democracy Campaigners: ArrestsPerhaps I could encourage my hon. Friend to join the all-party parliamentary group on Hong Kong, which I know is very active in the House—I was a member before I became a…07 Jan 2025HANSARD Pro-democracy Campaigners: ArrestsI would be delighted to meet Ms Lau again; I believe I met her at an event with Dame Helena Kennedy in the previous Parliament, but it would be lovely to refresh that acquaintance…07 Jan 2025HANSARD Pro-democracy Campaigners: ArrestsI have the pleasure of walking in Richmond Park, which is a lovely thing to do, and I thank the hon. Member for her concern for her constituents. The scheme was designed by the…07 Jan 2025