Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will raise the findings and recommendations of the UN Human Rights Council Group of Eminent Experts Report on Yemen with his counterparts in (a) Saudi Arabia, (b) the United Arab Emirates and (c) the Yemeni Government.

The British Government believes that it is important to give the Group of Eminent Experts more time to fully examine the conflict and to ensure that their conclusions accurately reflect the conduct of all parties in future reporting. We have raised its findings with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. It is clear that many incidents and alleged violations committed by all parties have not yet been fully documented, particularly those committed by Houthis. For these reasons, in September 2018 we supported the renewal of the existing mandate of the Group of Eminent Experts for a further year.