Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the timetable is for review of the Government's Business and Human Rights Action Plan.

The UK’s National Action Plan reflects the Government’s commitment to implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. We are committed to reviewing and issuing an updated Action Plan by the end of 2015. We will use a cross-Government approach, as we did when developing the Action Plan, to reflect the fact that business and human rights goes across a broad range of Government activities and responsibilities. We continue to report back each year on progress in our Annual Human Rights and Democracy Report of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.