Question follow-through · 14916
Religious Freedom
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to prioritise issues concerning freedom of religion or belief in future Human Rights and Democracy Reports.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
- Tabled
- 1 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 6 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 7 Jul 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to prioritise issues concerning freedom of religion or belief in future Human Rights and Democracy Reports.
6 Jul 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Jul 2026
Answer published
The UK recognises that women and girls from religious or belief minority communities can suffer disproportionally because of both their gender and faith- as addressed, for example, in the answer provided on 24 June in response to Question 9814 on the trea...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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