Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between James Cleverly and Lee Anderson

Tuesday 8th September 2020 Commons Chamber

[James Cleverly]

It is important that we recognise that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is taking significant steps in the right direction, and we encourage and support it to do so. The Foreign Secretary raised the release of those human rights defenders face-to-face on his visit to Riyadh just last month[Official Report, 15 September 2020, Vol. 680, c. 1MC.].

[Lee Anderson (Ashfield) (Con)]

If he will make poverty reduction the primary focus of his Department.