Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Mark Simmonds and Nicholas Brown

Tuesday 18th June 2013 Commons Chamber

[Mark Simmonds]

As I said a moment ago, we consistently lobby—through bilateral relations and our embassy in Moscow, as well as through the multilateral organisations I referred to earlier, particularly the UN with its universal periodic review—to make sure that countries like Russia adhere to the international framework for human rights, especially as it relates to LGBT rights. I can give the hon. Lady an assurance that we will continue to lobby through both those two sets of organisations, bilaterally and multilaterally, to try to make sure that all people have equal access to human rights.

[Mr Nicholas Brown (Newcastle upon Tyne East) (Lab)]

T1. If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.