May. 02 2024
Source Page: UEFA EURO 2028 - commercial rights protection: Public consultationFound: For some, like the Olympics or Commonwealth Games, specific legislation needs to be put in place as a
Open Consultation: EURO 2028: Commercial Rights Protection
Opened: Thursday 2nd May 2024Found: For some, like the Olympic or Commonwealth Games, specific legislation needs to be put in place as a
Mentions:
1: Gray, Neil (SNP - Airdrie and Shotts) The Commonwealth Games Federation is working with a number of Commonwealth games associations to reset - Speech Link
2: Gray, Neil (SNP - Airdrie and Shotts) The Commonwealth Games Federation has said that it intends to announce a decision about the favoured - Speech Link
3: Sweeney, Paul (Lab - Glasgow) The proposal to hold the 2026 Commonwealth games in Glasgow is great, and I encourage the Government - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) I pay tribute to our excellent ambassadors in the region, and our Foreign, Commonwealth and Development - Speech Link
2: David Rutley (Con - Macclesfield) The Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, my hon. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Daniel Kawczynski (Con - Shrewsbury and Atcham) region for the United Kingdom, one of the largest concentrations of British overseas territories and Commonwealth - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) The forced marriage unit, which is run jointly by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and - Speech Link
Found: Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and International Committee of the Red Cross (Status) Bill: HL
Asked by: Navendu Mishra (Labour - Stockport)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Deputy Foreign Secretary, how many staff in his Department were based in the Republic of India as of 15 April 2024.
Answered by David Rutley - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
The FCDO currently has between 40-49 staff, as at the end of March 2024, working in India.
Asked by: Navendu Mishra (Labour - Stockport)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Deputy Foreign Secretary, what the average time taken by his Department to respond to a freedom of information (FOI) request was in each of the last five years; how many and what proportion of FOI requests his Department did not answer within the target time in each of the last five years; and how many FOI requests to his Department have not been answered within the target time as of 24 April 2024.
Answered by David Rutley - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
The FCDO takes its responsibilities under the Freedom of Information Act very seriously and will continue to strive to answer Freedom of Information (FOI) requests within the required timescales.
1. Number of cases received and answered on time 2019 - 2023
Year | Department | Total Number of FOI requests | Total Number answered on time | % on time |
2019 | FCO | 1229 | 1146 | 93% |
DfID | 436 | 430 | 99% | |
2020 | FCO | 828 | 665 | 80% |
DfID | 288 | 283 | 98% | |
FCDO | 352 | 277 | 79% | |
2021 | FCDO | 1245 | 1080 | 87% |
2022 | FCDO | 1214 | 956 | 79% |
2023 | FCDO | 1362 | 866 | 64% |
2. Number of cases received and answered on time 2024 - to date
Year | Department | Total number of FOI requests closed to date | Total number answered on time to date | % answered on time |
2024 to date | FCDO | 334 | 212 | 63% |
Correspondence May. 01 2024
Committee: International Agreements CommitteeFound: Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton Secretary of State Foreign, Commonwealth and Development