Question follow-through · 60068
South Sudan and Sudan: Armed Forces
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 trends in the level of recruitment of children into (a) the military and (b) paramilitary groups
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- Answering body
- Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
- Tabled
- 16 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 18 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 23 Jun 2025 · 7 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
16 Jun 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 trends in the level of recruitment of children into (a) the military and (b) paramilitary groups
18 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Jun 2025
Answer published
As a signatory to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the UK is committed to supporting, promoting, and defending the UN Children and Armed Conflict mandate. The UN Secretary General's annual report on Children in Armed Conflict released earlier...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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