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HANSARDPress Freedom and Safety of Protesters: IndiaIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Stringer, under these new arrangements. So far, so good—the technology appears to have worked very well. I am grateful to the…08 Mar 2021HANSARDPress Freedom and Safety of Protesters: IndiaI can; thank you, Mr Stringer. Let me end by reassuring colleagues that the UK Government will continue to monitor developments relating to the protests incredibly closely. Where…08 Mar 2021HANSARDBritish Council and the Integrated ReviewMy right hon. Friend is right to raise that issue. The footprint of the British Council is huge globally. If he is referring to potential office closures, no decisions have been…04 Mar 2021HANSARDBritish Council and the Integrated ReviewThe hon. Gentleman is absolutely right: it is important that, through our network and posts and through what we do in our embassies and high commissions around the world, as well…04 Mar 2021HANSARDBritish Council and the Integrated ReviewI am incredibly grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Basildon and Billericay (Mr Baron) for securing this debate on the British Council and the integrated review. May I use…04 Mar 2021HANSARDBritish Council Annual Report and Accounts 2019-20Copies of the British Council’s annual report and accounts for the 2019-20 financial year have been placed in the Libraries of both Houses. The British Council builds connections,…03 Mar 2021HANSARDSri LankaWe are very concerned by the recent UN report on human rights and accountability in Sri Lanka. As I have said previously, we have made our concerns about the human rights…02 Mar 2021HANSARDSri LankaThe hon. Gentleman is absolutely right to raise this matter, which I know is of great concern to his constituents and to many other hon. Members’ constituents. My colleague, Lord…02 Mar 2021HANSARDChina: Human RightsThe hon. Gentleman takes a keen interest in this subject, and I appreciate all the work he does on it. We are carefully considering further designations under our human rights…02 Mar 2021HANSARDChina: Human RightsThe Foreign Secretary announced targeted measures on 12 January to help ensure that no British organisations are complicit in the gross human rights violations occurring in…02 Mar 2021HANSARDSri LankaI know the hon. Member takes a very keen interest in Sri Lanka. Our engagement with the military in Sri Lanka is designed to support the development of a modern, effective and…02 Mar 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend asks a very sensible question. The UK co-sponsored the World Health Assembly resolution in May 2020 that agreed an investigation into the origins of covid. It is…02 Mar 2021HANSARDWinter Olympic and Paralympic Games: Team GB BoycottThat is a very sensible question from the hon. Gentleman. It is absolutely the case that we need to ensure that those British national overseas passport holders who arrive in the…02 Mar 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe UK Government have repeatedly asserted our long-held position that we respect the territorial integrity of Indonesia, including the provinces of Papua and West Papua. The UK…02 Mar 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe PSVI remains a top priority for the UK Government. Since its launch in 2012 we have committed £48 million and funded 85 projects across 29 countries to prevent and respond to…02 Mar 2021HANSARDWinter Olympic and Paralympic Games: Team GB BoycottWe are leading international action, including at the UN, to hold China to account. We have led from the front. We have an increasing cohort of countries supporting our statements…02 Mar 2021HANSARDSri LankaThe Minister for South Asia, Lord Ahmad, set out our serious concerns about human rights in Sri Lanka in a statement at the UN Human Rights Council on 25 February. On 22 February,…02 Mar 2021HANSARDWinter Olympic and Paralympic Games: Team GB BoycottThe hon. Member will no doubt have heard the Prime Minister highlight that we are not normally in favour of sporting boycotts. Along with that, participation of the national team…02 Mar 2021HANSARDState Immunity Act 1978: Remedial OrderIn 2017, the Supreme Court judgment in the case of Benkharbouche v. Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs [2017] UKSC 62 held that certain provisions of the…23 Feb 2021HANSARD Treatment of Uyghur Women: Xinjiang Detention CampsI acknowledge the strength of feeling about the human rights situation in Xinjiang, which is shared by hon. Members across the House. The BBC report to which my hon. Friend refers…04 Feb 2021