Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the Address on the Annual activity report 2022 by the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, which took place at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on 24 April 2023.

The Human Rights Commissioner is an independent non-judicial role with the mandate of promoting awareness of and respect for human rights in the 46 Council of Europe member states. The UK Government will carefully consider the Commissioner for Human Rights Annual activity report.