Question follow-through · 24067
Japan: Foreign Relations
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department took to support the Nagasaki Peace Memorial Ceremony in August 2024; and if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the non-attendance
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- Answering body
- Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
- Tabled
- 14 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 23 Jan 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department took to support the Nagasaki Peace Memorial Ceremony in August 2024; and if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the non-attendance
16 Jan 2025
Target answer date
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23 Jan 2025
Answer published
We have consistently been represented at the Nagasaki peace ceremony by our Ambassador or a senior diplomat since 2010. Last year was no different: the British Embassy's Minister Counsellor Political, our second most senior diplomat in Japan at the time, ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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