Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he will take to ensure that perpetrators of atrocities in Yemen are held to account.

If any activity occurs that is suspected of being non-compliant with international humanitarian law, we will raise this with the relevant authorities and will expect them to investigate it fully and swiftly, and to take action if any wrongdoing is found to have occurred.

The UK joined the consensus on the UN Human Rights Council resolution that established the Group of Eminent Experts. The Resolution mandated a group of eminent experts to examine the human rights situation in Yemen. The UK believes 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. In September 2018 we supported the renewal of the existing mandate of the Group of Eminent Experts for a further year.

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