Question follow-through · 52578
Surveillance: Minority Groups
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the use of surveillance technology by authoritarian governments to target religious minorities;
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- Answering body
- Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
- Tabled
- 15 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 19 May 2025
- Answer
- 27 May 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the use of surveillance technology by authoritarian governments to target religious minorities;
19 May 2025
Target answer date
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27 May 2025
Answer published
The UK remains strongly committed to freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) for all abroad. We are working bilaterally and multilaterally to hold countries to account for repression of religious or belief minorities.The UK takes its export control responsib...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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