Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what representations they have made (1) to the government of China, and (2) at the United Nations, about China’s Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress.

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has discussed this law with Chinese officials, stressing the importance that the law does not harm the rights of members of minority groups and that it is not applied extraterritorially. The UK's Human Rights Ambassador has raised the law at the UN Human Rights Council, most recently on 8 September. We will never tolerate attempts by foreign governments to coerce, intimidate, harass, or harm their critics overseas, and anyone caught assisting a foreign state to undermine our security will be brought to justice.