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Written Question
Armed Conflict: International Law
Wednesday 27th March 2024

Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham, Hodge Hill)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether his Department has previously established a country-specific cell similar to the International Humanitarian Law Compliance Assessment Process Cell.

Answered by Andrew Mitchell - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) (Minister for Development)

The International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Cell's approach to assessment of IHL compliance by Israel is informed by a methodology adopted by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office following a request by the Campaign Against Arms Trade in 2017 for a judicial review of export licensing decisions for Saudi Arabia during the conflict in Yemen.

I refer the honourable member for Hodge Hill to the then Secretary of State for International Trade's statement of 7 July 2020 following the High Court judgment on military export licences to Saudi Arabia [Volume 678:Column 32-34WS].


Select Committee
Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy, Think-Tank for Action on Social Change, and Heritage Foundation

Oral Evidence Mar. 26 2024

Inquiry: The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Foreign Affairs Committee (Department: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)

Found: that would be now to unravel in order to put in a different governance structure, is there a risk of Yemen


Select Committee
Middle East Program, CSIS, RUSI, Jonathan Wilks, and The University of Exeter

Oral Evidence Mar. 26 2024

Inquiry: The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Foreign Affairs Committee (Department: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)

Found: that would be now to unravel in order to put in a different governance structure, is there a risk of Yemen


Lords Chamber
Israel and Gaza - Tue 26 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Smith of Basildon (Lab - Life peer) Most recently, he will be aware, each round of UK air strikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen has been - Speech Link
2: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) October, they had started negotiating with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia a ceasefire and a solution to Yemen - Speech Link


National Audit Office
International - Mar. 25 2024
Report - Progress with the merger of the FCO and DFID (PDF)

Found: Yemen Advance peace and alleviate the humanitarian crisis.Spent £83 million in 2022-23 on aid programmes


Lords Chamber
Christians: Persecution - Mon 25 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) Just a few weeks ago, we raised the plight of the Baha’i community in Yemen and Iran, the Ahmadi Muslims - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Armed Forces Readiness and Defence Equipment - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: George Galloway (WPB - Rochdale) the 19th century and can send gunboats up the Yangtze and not have them sunk, and that the natives in Yemen - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Human Rights: Sportswashing - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) The regime continues to intervene in Yemen, one of the world’s worst human rights crises, and was responsible - Speech Link


Deposited Papers

Mar. 19 2024

Source Page: British Council 2022-23 Annual report and accounts. 141p.
Document: British.pdf (PDF)

Found: protection of an endangered dialect of Swahili in Kenya and the rehabilitation of a 19th-century palace in Yemen


Bill Documents
18 Mar 2024 - Amendment Paper
HL Bill 38-I Marshalled list for Committee
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill 2022-23

Found: y) Sri Lanka; (z) Sudan; (za) Syria; (zb) Turkmenistan; (zc) Uzbekistan; (zd) Venezuela; (ze) Yemen