Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

What recent representations he has made to the Polish Government on (a) women’s and (b) LGBT+ rights in that country.

I raised LGBT rights with Deputy Foreign Minister Przydacz when I visited Warsaw on 8 October. Our Embassy in Warsaw works actively on this agenda with both the Polish government and civil society, in close cooperation with our diplomatic partners.

We are closely monitoring developments following a ruling on 22 October by the Polish Constitutional Tribunal that laws permitting abortion in most cases are unconstitutional and the protests across Poland that this has prompted.

Our Embassy in Warsaw is active on the gender equality agenda and in September ran a workshop for British and Polish NGOs engaged in promoting women’s rights.