Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what representations he has made to the Chinese Government on the reported detention of half a million Tibetans in forced labour camps.

We have raised our concerns about reports of forced labour in Tibet with the Chinese Embassy in London and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing. More broadly, as I set out to parliament on 7 October, we have consistently urged China to respect all fundamental rights in line with both its own constitution and the international frameworks to which it is a party.

On 6 October, the UK and 38 other countries joined a statement at the UN Third Committee in New York expressing deep concern at the situation in Tibet, Xinjiang and Hong Kong.