Written questions

Surveillance: Minority Groups

Commons · Question 52578 · Tabled 15 May 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office · Official record

Answered 27 May 2025

Question

Asked by Sir Iain Duncan Smith

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;

Answer

Answered by Stephen Doughty, 27 May 2025

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...