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...