Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his Department's human rights priorities are for the current Parliament.

We are currently reconfiguring our work on human rights around three pillars to promite greater focus, boost our impact, and increase our ability to respond to international developments.

These pillars are:

(i) Democratic values and the rule of law;
(ii) The rules-based international system and,
(iii) Human rights for a stable world.

These will accommodate everything our Embassies, High Commissions and multilateral missions currently prioritise, in locally appropriate ways.