Question follow-through · 14322
Gaza: Israel
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the matters raised in the Human Rights Watch report entitled Hopeless, Starving and Besieged:
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- Answering body
- Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
- Tabled
- 14 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 18 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 4 Dec 2024 · 20 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Opposition Day Motion: Defence spending and readiness - Prime Minister's Amendment · 23 Jun 2026
- Opposition day: Defence spending and readiness · 23 Jun 2026
- Armed Forces Bill Report Stage: Amendment 11 · 22 Jun 2026
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Recorded timeline
14 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the matters raised in the Human Rights Watch report entitled Hopeless, Starving and Besieged:
18 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Dec 2024
Answer published
We have not made an assessment of the matters raised in the Human Rights Watch report entitled Hopeless, Starving and Besieged: Israel's Forced Displacement of Palestinians in Gaza, published on 14 November 2024. However, the Government has been clear, th...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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