Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment, if any, they have made of the decision of the Nigerian House of Representatives on 4 July to declare recent killings in Plateau State to be a genocide and to direct the federal government to establish orphanages in areas affected by recent killings.

These clashes continue to have a devastating impact on the affected communities, as the proposal for additional orphanages shows. It is UK policy that any determination on whether genocide has occurred is a matter for competent judicial bodies, rather than for governments. The UK is fully committed to the principle that there must be no impunity for the most serious international crimes. As party to the International Criminal Court and the Geneva Conventions we continue to voice our support for this principle and for the work of the International Criminal Court and the international tribunals to tackle impunity for these crimes.