Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, when his Department plans to publish an updated human rights and democracy report, together with an updated list of human rights priority countries.

This Government is firmly committed to the protection and promotion of human rights and democracy around the world, and to reporting publicly on its actions in support of that goal. The next report on human rights will be published later this year, covering the period since the current Government came to office.