Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has made to his counterparts in other countries on ratification of the International Labour Organisation Convention on Domestic Workers; and if he will make a statement.

I have not raised the International Labour Organization’s Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189). The UK has not seen the need to ratify this Convention, given the effective provisions in our domestic law, but supports the Convention’s principles. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office does not have primary policy responsibility for this Convention.