Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he will make representations to his counterpart in Pakistan to remove academic content that may incite violence against Christians from the school curriculum.

We continue to engage on the critical need for Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB) in schools. The UK has supported initiatives to review the National Curriculum of Pakistan, providing technical assistance to Pakistan to create a more inclusive curriculum and textbooks. At Pakistan's Universal Periodic Review in January, the UK formally recommended that Pakistan ensure school textbooks are inclusive of all religions and ensure religious minorities can access suitable alternatives to compulsory Qu'ranic studies.