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Written Question
Myanmar: Rohingya
Wednesday 17th September 2025

Asked by: John Glen (Conservative - Salisbury)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what representations he has made to the authorities in Myanmar on the reported increase in attacks on the Rohingya community; and what steps he is taking with international partners to help ensure humanitarian aid reaches displaced minority communities.

Answered by Seema Malhotra - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

The UK continues to condemn the Myanmar military regime's use of violence against civilians, including the systematic persecution and discrimination against religious and ethnic minorities, such as the Rohingya. In April, we co-sponsored a UN Human Rights Council resolution on Myanmar calling for the Myanmar military to fully respect and protect the human rights of all persons in Myanmar, including Rohingya and other persons belonging to ethnic and religious minorities.

Since 2017, the UK has provided over £108 million in support to communities in Rakhine, with an estimated £52 million in aid for the Rohingya and other Muslim minority groups. We are deeply concerned by the food security situation in Rakhine State and are working with international partners to improve humanitarian access to communities across the state.

Through our humanitarian programme, we have reached 1.3 million people since 2022 in conflict affected areas across Myanmar with essential humanitarian support.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 16 Sep 2025
Oral Answers to Questions

"9. What steps he is taking to reduce the court backlog. ..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 16 Sep 2025
Oral Answers to Questions

"I wish the right hon. Gentleman the very best in his new appointment, but he is presiding over a complicated system, in which, today, 74 out of 516 Crown courtrooms are empty. Will he comment on that, and on when the second part of the Leveson report will come into …..."
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Division Vote (Commons)
16 Sep 2025 - Sentencing Bill - View Vote Context
John Glen (Con) voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 72 Conservative No votes vs 0 Conservative Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 340 Noes - 77
Division Vote (Commons)
16 Sep 2025 - Sentencing Bill - View Vote Context
John Glen (Con) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 73 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 78 Noes - 292
Division Vote (Commons)
16 Sep 2025 - Child Poverty Strategy (Removal of Two Child Limit) - View Vote Context
John Glen (Con) voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 75 Conservative No votes vs 0 Conservative Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 89 Noes - 79
Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 11 Sep 2025
Oral Answers to Questions

"On Friday, I had the privilege of meeting Lawrence Bowman, the new chief executive of South Western Railway, who brings with him over 20 years of experience in the industry. We travelled from Salisbury to Tisbury. He says that he has to write a five-year plan. I am keen to …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 11 Sep 2025
Business of the House

"I welcome the right hon. Gentleman to his new role.

May I echo the hon. Member for Chelmsford (Marie Goldman) in drawing his attention to the reply that his predecessor gave to me on 27 February concerning the Government’s response to the report on valproate? It really is necessary that …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 11 Sep 2025
Life Sciences Investment

"At Porton Down in my constituency, there is a hub of life science businesses. I have listened carefully to what the right hon. Gentleman has said, and I recognise the difficult dilemmas that all Governments have in where to focus investment. However, the Minister must surely recognise that the additional …..."
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Written Question
Sodium Valproate
Thursday 11th September 2025

Asked by: John Glen (Conservative - Salisbury)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 23 July 2025 to Question 68387 on Epilepsy and Pregnancy: Sodium Valproate, what his Departments planned timeline is for establishing a centralised register caputring Pregnancy Prevention Programme interventions and acknowledgements, linked to prescribing data.

Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

NHS England has worked collaboratively with the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency on the safer use of valproate containing medicines. The best way to a centralised register is through the single patient record and the use of this to populate the federated data platfor, which would allow for the functionality of a centralised register. This is enabled by the Transformation Directorate to ensure that clinical care can be effectively and accurately coded.

The Medicines and Pregnancy Register monitors prescribing of valproate and highlights the number of pregnancies potentially exposed to valproate. This data demonstrates a reduction in prescribing valproate to women and girls as well as a reduction in the number of possible exposed pregnancies since the Pregnancy Prevention Programme (PPP) was introduced in 2018. Analysis shows the implementation of the PPP by ICBs is consistent across the country. The register is available at the following link:

https://tabanalytics.data.england.nhs.uk/t/Public/views/MedsPreg/TitlePage?%3Aembed=y&%3Aiid=1&%3AisGuestRedirectFromVizportal=y