Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many Special Rapporteurs have visited the non-self-governing territory of Western Sahara since the UN Security Council passed Resolution 1979 in April 2011; when those visits took place; and what the duration was of each such visit.

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has conducted several visits to Western Sahara since 2011, the latest of which was in January 2016. Further details of these visits can be found on the OHCHR website.