Written questions

6,533 written questions tabled, most recent first.

7 Jul 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

UK Soft Power Council

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether the BBC World Service has a role on the Soft Power Council; and what progress that Council has made since its establishment.

7 Jul 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

BBC Arabic Service and BBC Persian Service: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of changes to the level of funding for BBC (a) Arabic and (b) Persian services on his Department's strategy in

7 Jul 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

BBC World Service: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of funding English-language BBC World Service (a) content through the licence fee and (b) language servi

7 Jul 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Syria: Armed Forces

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of the reported naturalisation of former members of (a) Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham and (b) other extremist gr

7 Jul 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Syria: Politics and Government

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has had recent discussions with his counterpart in the Syrian interim government on taking steps to ensure that they will not be influenced by radical Islamist gro

7 Jul 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Syria: Religious Freedom

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions he has had with his Syrian counterpart on the status of investigations into the reported killings of Christians and Alawites in Syria’s coastal region in Mar

7 Jul 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Syria: Religious Freedom

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the Syrian Interim Government on the commitment to (a) publish a report on the reported killings of (i) Christians and (ii) Alawites i

7 Jul 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Syria: Religious Freedom

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has received assurances from the Syrian Interim Government that people responsible for recent attacks on religious minority communities are (a) not affiliated with

7 Jul 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Syria: Religious Freedom

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to support transparent investigations into the (a) recent attack on Mar Elias Church in Damascus, (b) reported killings of Christians and

7 Jul 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Syria: Religious Freedom

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of the safety of religious minority communities in Syria following the reported attack on Mar Elias Church in Damascus.

7 Jul 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Caribbean: Undocumented Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with Caribbean governments on tackling irregular migration.

7 Jul 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Venezuela: Civil Society

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to support civil society organisations in Venezuela.

7 Jul 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Hong Kong: National Security

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the Hong Kong National Security Law on British businesses operating in Hong Kong.

7 Jul 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Anna Kwok

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has had discussions with the Chinese ambassador on the case of Anna Kwok.

7 Jul 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Hong Kong: Arrest Warrants

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with Hong Kong officials on the use of arrest warrants against British citizens.

7 Jul 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Hong Kong: Politics and Government

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of reports that Hong Kong’s last pro-democracy political party has been disbanded; and if he will h

7 Jul 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

British Indian Ocean Territory (Constitution) Order 2004

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 23 June 2025 to Question 60010 on British Indian Ocean Territory (Constitution) Order 2004 and with reference to the UK/Mauritius Agreement concerni

7 Jul 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Middle East

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, when he last met with his United Arab Emirates counterpart to discuss that country's actions to deescalate tensions between Israel and Iran.

4 Jul 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Chagos Islands: Sovereignty

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will take steps to agree legally binding protections for Chagossian cultural and historical locations.

4 Jul 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Chagos Islands: Sovereignty

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if his Department will take steps to ensure that the current availability of visitation by UK Chagossians to their ancestral islands can continue after any transfer of sovere

4 Jul 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Chagos Islands: Sovereignty

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if it is his departments policy that Chagossian people must be assured of their right of abode within the British Indian Ocean Territory (Chagos Islands) before any transfer

4 Jul 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Chagos Islands: Sovereignty

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will take steps to safeguard the (a) status and (b) interests of Chagossians in relation to the British Indian Ocean Territory.

4 Jul 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Iran: Israel

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 1 July 2025 to Question 60823 on Iran: Israel, whether he has met Reza Pahlavi; and whether he plans to.

4 Jul 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Syria: Human Rights

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has made representations to his Syrian counterpart on ensuring that survivors of Syria’s detention systems have access to (a) justice, (b) reparations and (c) reha

4 Jul 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Syria: Human Rights

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has made representations to his Syrian counterpart on ensuring that people responsible for (a) torture and (b) other human rights violations against survivors of S

4 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Kava: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has received any representations from (a) medical and (b) ethnobotanical researchers on the potential therapeutic uses of Kava since 2020.

4 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Kava: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the scientific evidence underpinning the prohibition of kava-kava under the Medicines for Human Use (Kava-kava) (Prohibition) Order

4 Jul 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Kava

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the ban on Kava on UK-based (a) importers and (b) retailers of traditional South Pacific herbal products.

4 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Kava

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to review the prohibition on the (a) import and (b) sale of Kava products.

4 Jul 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Pacific Ocean Islands: Kava

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department has received representations from representatives of Pacific Island nations on the prohibition of Kava in the UK.

Source: official written-questions record.