Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make representations (a) FIFA and (b) the Football Association and (c) Football Association Wales on the potential merits of establishing a workers compensation fund for workers who built stadiums for the FIFA World Cup in Qatar.

We welcome the steps Qatar has taken to date on workers’ rights, with the priority now the full implementation and enforcement of those reforms.

We encourage continued close collaboration between the Government of Qatar and International Labour Organization during the second phase of their technical cooperation programme – which runs until the end of 2023. We also welcome continued Qatari cooperation with entities such as the international trade unions.

On 4 July, FCDO Minister Milling met the Qatari Minister for Labour in Doha. They discussed Qatar’s progress on labour reforms, and the Ministry’s on-going cooperation with the International Labour Organization.