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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 23 Feb 2016
Oral Answers to Questions

"1. What steps the Government are taking to support the global abolition of the death penalty...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 23 Feb 2016
Oral Answers to Questions

"I thank the Minister for his response. Will he present a new strategy for the abolition of the death penalty, following on from the 2010 to 2015 strategy? Will that new strategy include Saudi Arabia?..."
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Written Question
Yemen: Military Intervention
Tuesday 24th November 2015

Asked by: Callum McCaig (Scottish National Party - Aberdeen South)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he plans to take to ensure that potential breaches of international humanitarian law by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen are investigated.

Answered by Tobias Ellwood

We have raised concerns with the Saudi Government on alleged breaches of international humanitarian law and have received repeated assurances of compliance. The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my right hon. Friend the Member for Runnymede and Weybridge (Mr Hammond) discussed this with the Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister during his visit to Riyadh on 28 October, and most recently in Vienna on 14 November.