Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 17 September 2020 to Question 87548 on Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Religious Freedom, what steps he is taking to assess whether the Freedom of Religion or Belief toolkit is being implemented by his Department's officials after having attended a toolkit workshop.

The FCDO's Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB) toolkit is a resource available to officials in the UK and at Post to inform their work on FoRB. Whilst we do not formally monitor use of the toolkit, we continue to make teams aware of how the toolkit can support their work and to seek opportunities to promote it. We also encourage officials to draw on the toolkit when drafting their entries for the Annual Human Rights and Democracy Report, the next of which will be published in 2021.