Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the US Secretary of State's description on 19 January of the government of China's treatment of Uighurs as a genocide.

We will work closely with the incoming US administration to tackle the gross human rights violations taking place in Xinjiang, and continue to lead international condemnation of these violations. On 12 January, the Foreign Secretary announced a robust package of measures to ensure that British organisations, whether public or private sector, are not complicit in, nor profiting from, the human rights violations in Xinjiang. However, it is the long-standing policy of the British Government that any judgment as to whether genocide has occurred is a matter for a competent court.