Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps she is taking to engage with the Chinese Government to end the use of re-education camps in Xinjiang, in the context of protect detainees from covid-19.

The risk of the spread of Covid-19 in places of detention is a matter of concern in a number of countries around the world. With regards to Xinjiang, we remain deeply concerned by the arbitrary detention of over a million Uyghurs and other minorities in Xinjiang in "political re-education camps", including advocates of Uyghurs' rights, culture, language and religion. We continue to urge China to implement UN recommendations - to end the practice of extra-judicial detention of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities, and to allow the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and other UN experts unfettered access to the region.