Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations officials in his Department have made to the Philippine Government on human rights in that country.

The UK remains concerned about reports of human rights abuses in the Philippines. Senior UK officials raised our concerns with Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Enrique Manalo, during High Level Talks in London in November 2019. Embassy officials regularly discuss human rights, including media freedoms, with the Philippine Government in Manila.