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To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent steps his Department has taken to help secure consular access to Alaa Abd El-Fattah.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent steps his Department has taken to help secure consular access to Alaa Abd El-Fattah.
Mr Alaa Abd El-Fattah obtained British Citizenship in December 2021. The Egyptian authorities have repeatedly stated that they do not recognise Mr El-Fattah's British nationality and continue to refuse consular access, which was first requested in December 2021. There have been frequent follow-up requests, including at the highest levels. The Prime Minister raised consular access when he spoke to President Sisi on 7 November. The Minister for the Middle East and North Africa has also raised Mr El-Fattah's case on a number of occasions, most recently on 5 December with the Egyptian Ambassador.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to monitor (a) the political situation in Nigeria and (b) preparations for the general election in that country.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to monitor (a) the political situation in Nigeria and (b) preparations for the general election in that country.
Our High Commissioner to Nigeria and her staff regularly meet with a wide range of stakeholders to understand the political situation in Nigeria. We work closely with government and civil society partners to help promote peace, strengthen democracy and to provide strategic and programmatic support ahead of the elections in February 2023. Since 2019, we have provided over £2 million to Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission to enhance its capacity and processes to deliver free, fair and credible elections. I [Minister Mitchell] have also begun a series of meetings with Nigeria's presidential candidates to understand their priorities.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of to Question 98894, whether his Department holds any records of any further formal complaints being made about the conduct of the Rt. Hon. Member for Esher and Walton since 22 November 2023.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of to Question 98894, whether his Department holds any records of any further formal complaints being made about the conduct of the Rt. Hon. Member for Esher and Walton since 22 November 2023.
I refer the Hon. Member to the answer given on 29 November to Question 88787.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many officials in his Department speak (a) Russian and (b) Ukrainian.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many officials in his Department speak (a) Russian and (b) Ukrainian.
The FCDO only holds figures for staff who have completed FCDO-certified training at C1/C2 levels: this does not include our Country-Based Staff, many of whom are multilingual. 55 members of staff currently have valid exam passes in Russian at C1, including 10 at C2. Seven members of staff have a valid C1 exam pass in Ukrainian. Exam passes are valid for five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what estimate he has made of the number of employees in his Department who speak Mandarin.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what estimate he has made of the number of employees in his Department who speak Mandarin.
The FCDO only holds figures for staff who have completed FCDO-certified training at C1/C2 levels: this does not include our Country-Based Staff, many of whom are multilingual. 64 members of staff currently have valid exam passes in Mandarin at C1, including 23 at C2. Exam passes are valid for five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 17 October to Question 59749 on Ukraine: Humanitarian Aid, what steps his Department has taken on repurposing seized Russian assets to support humanitarian efforts in Ukraine since the Ukraine Recovery Conference .
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 17 October to Question 59749 on Ukraine: Humanitarian Aid, what steps his Department has taken on repurposing seized Russian assets to support humanitarian efforts in Ukraine since the Ukraine Recovery Conference .
The UK Government and its G7 partners have been clear Russia must pay for the damage caused by its illegal war in Ukraine. Together with other Government departments and law enforcement agencies, we are looking at legally robust mechanisms to seize assets to fund reconstruction. We continue to work with Ukraine and international partners to support that reconstruction.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what the cost to his Department was of most expensive bottle of wine (a) purchased by and (b) consumed from the Government Wine Cellar this year.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what the cost to his Department was of most expensive bottle of wine (a) purchased by and (b) consumed from the Government Wine Cellar this year.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what the value was of wine from the Government's wine cellar consumed in (a) 2018-19, (b) 2019-20, (c) 2020-21 and (d) 2021-22 to date.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what the value was of wine from the Government's wine cellar consumed in (a) 2018-19, (b) 2019-20, (c) 2020-21 and (d) 2021-22 to date.
The UK Government regularly hosts events to bring together stakeholders from across the country and around the world. The wine cellar is used by all government departments and is maintained to deliver events at a lower cost. For the Financial Years 2018-19 and 2019-20 the overall value of wines used was as outlined in the Bi-Annual Report on the GH Wine Cellar, placed in the Library of the House.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-hospitality-wine-cellar-bi-annual-statement-2018-to-2020/government-hospitality-wine-cellar-bi-annual-report-2018-to-2020.
Historic expenditure on wine can be found here: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmhansrd/cm100906.
The value of wines used in FYs 2020-21 and 2021-22 has not yet been calculated and will be published in the next Bi-Annual Report on the Government Hospitality Wine Cellar 2020-2022, in due course.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what his Department’s total spend on hospitality in the UK was in each of the last five years; and, with reference to page 212 of his Department’s Annual Reports and Accounts 2021-2022, what definition is given to business...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what his Department’s total spend on hospitality in the UK was in each of the last five years; and, with reference to page 212 of his Department’s Annual Reports and Accounts 2021-2022, what definition is given to business...
The FCDO publish this data in the Annual Report and Accounts in Note 3 Operating Expenditure under "Business Hospitality". Prior to the merger, the FCO published this in Note 3 Operating Costs under "Business Hospitality" within the Annual Report and Accounts. DFID did not separately disclose the "Hospitality and Entertainment" costs in their Annual Report and Accounts as these are too small. However DFID spend on "hospitality and entertainment" prior to the merger was £40,639 in 2017-18; £39,560 in 2018-19; and £45,236 in 2019-20.
Business Hospitality in the FCDO's 2021-22 Annual Report and Accounts can be defined as direct reasonable expenses incurred when entertaining i.e. food and drink, for non-FCDO visitors or contacts (where appropriate) in the case of supporting the FCDO's Policy Priorities; and the indirect costs incurred due to representational requirements (e.g. cleaning fees, staff costs, childcare for late evening reception where it is mandatory for an officer to represent the UK).
Labour has been calling for a special tribunal to prosecute Putin personally since March. This is a necessary part of securing justice for the victims of Putin’s war crime, and would add to the legal basis for confiscating frozen
Russian assets. The EU has already set out a plan to shift frozen assets into a fund to help rebuild Ukraine, and Canada has already passed laws to do that. Why are the Government not doing the same?
Labour has been calling for a special tribunal to prosecute Putin personally since March. This is a necessary part of securing justice for the victims of Putin’s war crime, and would add to the legal basis for confiscating frozen
Russian assets. The EU has already set out a plan to shift frozen assets into a fund to help rebuild Ukraine, and Canada has already passed laws to do that. Why are the Government not doing the same?
The Government and I have committed to exploring ways of ensuring that those individuals who supported Vladimir Putin—the kleptocrats and oligarchs who have helped to fund this aggression against Ukraine—are not just sanctioned; ultimately, we will look at legally robust mechanisms to seize assets as part of the reparations, rebuilding and reconstruction phase. Of course, we work closely with the Canadian authorities. Canada has a similar legal system to ours, for obvious reasons, and we will explore what it has done to see what we can learn to ensure that whatever vehicle we put in place has the desired effect and is robust.
For 18 months we have been at an impasse on the Northern Ireland protocol. Instead of negotiations, we have had cheap rhetoric and threats to break agreements. With a UK Government showing determination and diplomatic skill, and an EU willing to be flexible, these problems would be easily resolvable. Is the real problem that the Prime Minister is in the pocket of the European Research Group, too weak to stand up to his Back Benchers, and putting his party before Northern Ireland?
For 18 months we have been at an impasse on the Northern Ireland protocol. Instead of negotiations, we have had cheap rhetoric and threats to break agreements. With a UK Government showing determination and diplomatic skill, and an EU willing to be flexible, these problems would be easily resolvable. Is the real problem that the Prime Minister is in the pocket of the European Research Group, too weak to stand up to his Back Benchers, and putting his party before Northern Ireland?
The right hon. Gentleman needs to keep up. We have had very well-tempered negotiations between the UK and EU negotiators. He will find in our public reporting of those negotiations that there has been a high degree of mutual respect. He says that there is an easy resolution. If he believes that, all I would say is that we are waiting to hear it. If it were easy, it would have been done already.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many ministerial red boxes his Department has bought in the last ten years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many ministerial red boxes his Department has bought in the last ten years.
This information is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much his Department has spent on ministerial red boxes in each of the last ten years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much his Department has spent on ministerial red boxes in each of the last ten years.
This information is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much his Department has spent on (a) furnishing and (b) redecorating Ministerial offices in each year since 2012.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much his Department has spent on (a) furnishing and (b) redecorating Ministerial offices in each year since 2012.
The FCDO captures information on spend on furnishing and re-decorating for its buildings. The FCDO does not capture information on where within a building the spend has been used.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much has been spent on external advertising consultants in each year since 2012.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much has been spent on external advertising consultants in each year since 2012.
FCDO's total consultancy since 2017 is set out below. Information for prior years could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. Consultancy spend is published in our annual accounts, which are publically available (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/fcdo-annual-report-and-accounts-2021-to-2022).
FCDO 2021/22 | FCDO 2020/21 | FCO + DFID 2019/20 | FCO + DFID 2018/19 | FCO + DFID 2017/18 |
£5.7 million | £2.7 million | £3 million | £2.6 million | £1.3 million |
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what his Department’s total expenditure has been on external consultants in each year since 2012.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what his Department’s total expenditure has been on external consultants in each year since 2012.
Total external consultancy spend for those financial years are in the table below. This information is published in FCDO's Annual Report & Accounts and can be found online.
TOTAL CONSULTANCY SPEND | |
YEAR | £ m |
FY 2013 | 8.09 |
FY 2014 | 1.58 |
FY 2015 | 1.67 |
FY 2016 | 1.12 |
FY 2017 | 0.82 |
FY 2018 | 1.33 |
FY 2019 | 2.58 |
FY 2020 | 2.96 |
FY 2021 | 2.74 |
FY 2022 | 5.76 |
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much his Department has spent on the services of external consultants in each of the last ten years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much his Department has spent on the services of external consultants in each of the last ten years.
Total external consultancy spend for those financial years are in the table below. This information is published in FCDO's Annual Report & Accounts and can be found online.
TOTAL CONSULTANCY SPEND | |
YEAR | £ m |
FY 2013 | 8.09 |
FY 2014 | 1.58 |
FY 2015 | 1.67 |
FY 2016 | 1.12 |
FY 2017 | 0.82 |
FY 2018 | 1.33 |
FY 2019 | 2.58 |
FY 2020 | 2.96 |
FY 2021 | 2.74 |
FY 2022 | 5.76 |
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much his Department spent on taxi cabs for (a) ministers and (b) civil servants in each of the last ten years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much his Department spent on taxi cabs for (a) ministers and (b) civil servants in each of the last ten years.
Total taxi travel spend for those financial years are in the table below.
YEAR £
FY 2013 1,404,034
FY 2014 1,746,183
FY 2015 1,925,743
FY 2016 1,521,151
FY 2017 1,662,958
FY 2018 1,691,252
FY 2019 1,773,334
FY 2020 1,989,134
FY 2021 1,072,219
FY 2022 1,312,290
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs how much his Department has spent on temporary agency staff, in each of the past ten years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs how much his Department has spent on temporary agency staff, in each of the past ten years.
Total temporary agency staff spend for those financial years are in the table below. This information is published in FCDO's Annual Report & Accounts and can be found online.
YEAR | £m |
FY2013 | 7.68 |
FY2014 | 8.10 |
FY2015 | 5.56 |
FY2016 | 5.03 |
FY2017 | 6.34 |
FY2018 | 4.09 |
FY2019 | 6.66 |
FY2020 | 12.01 |
FY2021 | 25.68 |
FY2022 | 39.58 |
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, when he will respond to Questions 88789, 88788 and 88787 submitted by the Rt. Hon. Member for Tottenham on 16 November 2022.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, when he will respond to Questions 88789, 88788 and 88787 submitted by the Rt. Hon. Member for Tottenham on 16 November 2022.
Replies to these 3 questions from the Honourable Member were issued on 29 November.