Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they have ever recognised the 2003 killings of Darfuri people in Sudan as genocide, and if so, why it is not among the five genocides now officially recognised.

It is not for the Government to recognise the atrocities in Darfur as a genocide. The UK's longstanding position is that determining whether a situation amounts to genocide is an issue for competent national and international courts after consideration of all of the available evidence, rather than a decision by governments or non-judicial parties.