Asked by: Chris Bryant (Labour - Rhondda and Ogmore)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many subject access requests his Department has (a) received and (b) responded to within the statutory limit in the last five years.
Answered by Gillian Keegan
The FCDO can provide the following data regarding the number of cases received and closed with statutory deadlines over the last 5 years. However, only the last two years are for the FCDO since it was established. The further 3 years are for the legacy FCO and DFID departments.
Year | No of Cases | Closed within statutory limit | Closed |
2021 | 94 | 38 | 75 |
2020 | 114 | 70 | 113 |
2019 | 107 | 76 | 104 |
2018 | 103 | 59 | 100 |
2017 | 101 | 50 | 98 |
Asked by: Chris Bryant (Labour - Rhondda and Ogmore)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 21 September 2022 to Question 48277 on Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Disclosure of Information, when she plans to respond to the Subject Access Request FCDO reference DPR 2022/08995 submitted to her on 17 March 2022.
Answered by Gillian Keegan
On the 6 October the Information Rights Unit at the FCDO responded to your DPR request 2022/08995 with the Information identified to date. The FCDO also committed to identifying any further personal information held by our overseas posts and will provide this information to you as soon as possible.
Asked by: Chris Bryant (Labour - Rhondda and Ogmore)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what was the most expensive bottle of wine (a) purchased by and (b) consumed from the Government Wine Cellar this year.
Answered by Gillian Keegan
The most expensive bottle of wine (a) purchased by the Government Wine Cellar this year was a Ridgeview Blanc de Blanc 2016. The most expensive bottle of wine (b) consumed from the Government Wine Cellar this year was a Chateau Lynch Bages 2000.
Asked by: Chris Bryant (Labour - Rhondda and Ogmore)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many bottles of (a) port, (b) champagne and (c) sherry were consumed from the Government Wine Cellar in 2021.
Answered by Gillian Keegan
The following number of bottles were consumed from the Government Wine Cellar in 2021.
(a) Port - 22
(b) Champagne - 4
(c) Sherry - 0
Asked by: Chris Bryant (Labour - Rhondda and Ogmore)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, when he will respond to the correspondence of 7 April 2022 from the hon. Member for Rhondda on the UK's sanctions regime.
Answered by Jesse Norman - Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
We are grateful to the Honourable member for bringing this matter to our attention and for re-sending this correspondence on 15 June, of which we had no record of receiving previously. We apologise for the delay and will work to expedite a response.
Asked by: Chris Bryant (Labour - Rhondda and Ogmore)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 19 July 2022 to Question 34834 on Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Disclosure of Information, when she plans to respond to the Subject Access Request FCDO reference DPR 2022/08995 submitted to her on 17 March 2022.
Answered by Gillian Keegan
The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office's Information Rights Unit continues to review and assess the large amount of information returned in our searches. We hope to be able to respond by the end of September.
Asked by: Chris Bryant (Labour - Rhondda and Ogmore)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to help reduce the maternal mortality rate in South Africa.
Answered by Vicky Ford
The UK does not provide direct support to help reduce maternal mortality in South Africa. The UK has, however, provided £7.5 million since 2020 to support health system strengthening including through knowledge exchange between health experts in both countries. This is helping South Africa to put in place the building blocks to achieve its goal of universal access to good quality healthcare and to reduce morbidity and mortality rates.