Question follow-through · 96212
Palestine: Foreign Relations
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to review UK National Archive material relating to Britain’s administration of the Mandate in Palestine between 1917 and 1948.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
- Tabled
- 2 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 8 Dec 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to review UK National Archive material relating to Britain’s administration of the Mandate in Palestine between 1917 and 1948.
4 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Dec 2025
Answer published
Available materials from the era in question can be accessed by any member of the public who wishes to do so via the National Archives.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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