Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will invite submissions from civil society during the process of preparing his Department’s Human Rights and Democracy report.

We regularly engage with a wide range of civil society organisations globally on human rights issues and value their contributions in achieving our foreign policy and development priorities. This engagement will be reflected in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office's 2020 Annual Human Rights and Democracy Report to be published in 2021.