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Written Question
Afghanistan: Visits Abroad
Monday 2nd July 2018

Asked by: Peter Grant (Scottish National Party - Glenrothes)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many public officials other than those who travelled with him for security purposes accompanied him on his visit to Afghanistan on 25 June 2018.

Answered by Mark Field

​The cost of the Foreign Secretary's travel will be disclosed in the usual way and published as part of transparency data in accordance with Cabinet Office requirements. The Foreign Secretary was accompanied by members of his private office.

Written Question
Afghanistan: Visits Abroad
Monday 2nd July 2018

Asked by: Peter Grant (Scottish National Party - Glenrothes)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many people other than those travelling with him for security purposes accompanied him at public cost on his visit to Afghanistan on 25 June 2018.

Answered by Mark Field

​The cost of the Foreign Secretary's travel will be disclosed in the usual way and published as part of transparency data in accordance with Cabinet Office requirements. The Foreign Secretary was accompanied by members of his private office.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 26 Jun 2018
Oral Answers to Questions

"20. If he will discuss the human rights record of the US with President Trump during his 2018 visit to the UK. ..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 26 Jun 2018
Oral Answers to Questions

"Is it not time for the Government to question seriously whether the current President of the United States is a fit and proper person to be our greatest ally? This is someone who can only be described as a serial child abuser. Putting children into concentration camps is not acceptable. …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 05 Jun 2018
Polish Anti-defamation Law

"Mr Gapes, it is a privilege to be able to contribute to the debate. I cannot go as far as to say it is a pleasure, because it is a difficult debate to take part in and to listen to. The testimonies we have heard will, I hope, continue to …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 05 Jun 2018
Polish Anti-defamation Law

"I am grateful for that intervention. Clearly, I cannot speak with the hon. Gentleman’s authority about the detailed history of Poland, but I certainly look at it from a common-sense point of view. Surely the Jewish population in Poland was so big because Jews were comfortable there and felt that …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 05 Jun 2018
Polish Anti-defamation Law

"Absolutely not. I was coming on to that. One of the first steps towards being prepared to allow a repeat of the holocaust is to deny that it ever happened. We also must be careful about denying that it could have happened in other places. I take issue with the …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 23 May 2018
UK Relations with Qatar

"The right hon. Gentleman will be aware that Saudi Arabia has been named in documents from the United States Government —and, I believe, from the UK Government —as being potentially involved in fostering radicalisation in the UK. Does he agree that while any allegations against Qatar must be independently investigated, …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 23 May 2018
UK Relations with Qatar

"I am pleased to have the opportunity to contribute to the debate, Sir Henry, and to begin the summing up. It has been an interesting debate, because I do not think anyone has said anything that anyone else has disagreed with. It is notable and perhaps disappointing that we have …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 23 May 2018
UK Relations with Qatar

"Not being an Arabic speaker I do not watch al-Jazeera in Arabic—I seldom watch it in English—but as reported by the BBC, some of its coverage of the terrorist murders of innocent hostages, for example, was highly insensitive. It appeared to be designed to give a propaganda victory to the …..."
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