Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the human rights situation in Hong Kong.
As the Foreign Secretary outlined in the latest Six-monthly Report to Parliament, published on 19 September, China has continued to curtail and control many of the rights and freedoms enshrined in the Sino-British Joint Declaration and Hong Kong's Basic Law under the guise of national security. Changes to electoral legislation have also meant a further step away from universal suffrage in Hong Kong. We will continue to speak out against the continued erosion of rights and freedoms in Hong Kong and China's ongoing non-compliance with the Joint Declaration. The Foreign Secretary made this clear during detailed discussions with Chinese Vice President Han Zheng during his visit to China on 31 August.