Written Question

Montenegro: Elections

Friday 30th June 2023

Asked by: Lord Blencathra (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what is their response to the Council of Europe report on the observation of the 2023 presidential election in Montenegro.

Answered by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon

The UK welcomes the Council of Europe's (CoE) Report on the Presidential elections in Montenegro. Election monitoring is a vital tool for promoting and encouraging democracy. The UK contributed to the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) observer mission to Montenegro's Presidential elections. We also supported a local Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) which reported irregularities and broadcast an early results forecast, contributing to the integrity of the election. We will provide ongoing support for electoral reform analysis. The UK will continue to encourage Montenegro to strengthen electoral practices in line with ODIHR and CoE recommendations.

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Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Ministry of Defence

Apr. 11 2024

Source Page: International defence expenditure: 2023
Document: (ODS)

Found: 0.8 0.9 Lithuania 0.2 0.2 0.8 1 1.2 1.3 1.3 1.4 1.7 Luxembourg 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.5 Montenegro

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Select Committee

Letter dated 21 November from Lord Bellamy KC, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice to the Chair, Justice and Home Affairs Committee regarding the decision to join the Hague Convention of 2019

Correspondence Dec. 05 2023

Committee: Justice and Home Affairs Committee

Found: There are also six signatories (Israel, Costa Rica, Montenegro, North Macedonia, the Russian Federation

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Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Jul. 25 2024

Source Page: Naming children and change of name letters
Document: Naming children and change of name letters (webpage)

Found: Montenegro: change of name PDF, 113 KB, 2 pages This file may not be suitable for users of assistive

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Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Feb. 09 2024

Source Page: Repression in Belarus: joint statement to the OSCE, February 2024
Document: Repression in Belarus: joint statement to the OSCE, February 2024 (webpage)

Found: today: Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Montenegro

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Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mar. 22 2024

Source Page: UK and others invoke Vienna Mechanism on political prisoners in Russia: Joint Statement to the OSCE
Document: UK and others invoke Vienna Mechanism on political prisoners in Russia: Joint Statement to the OSCE (webpage)

Found: Cyprus, Czechia, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro

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Written Question

Prisoners: Repatriation

Tuesday 19th December 2023

Asked by: Grahame Morris (Labour - Easington)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many foreign national offenders were removed from the country through a prison transfer agreement each year since 2010; and if he will list which countries were they removed to.

Answered by Edward Argar - Shadow Secretary of State for Justice

Any foreign national who is convicted of a crime and given a prison sentence is considered for deportation at the earliest opportunity. Where appropriate, the Government will also seek to permanently remove foreign criminals from the UK via the Early Removal Scheme once they have served the minimum required of their sentence. This is our best performing removal scheme with 5,262 Foreign National Offenders (FNOs) having been removed between January 2019 and June 2022.

The Home Office removed 16,676 foreign national offenders since January 2019 to September 2023. Published figures show that FNO returns have increased in the latest 12-month period (ending September 2023) by 19% when compared to previous 12-month period.

Our new Prisoner Transfer Agreement with Albania entered into force in May 2023 and we have signed a new Prisoner Transfer Agreement with the Philippines. We are looking to negotiate new Prisoner Transfer Agreements with key EU Member States and wider-world countries

Foreign national offender removals via Prisoner Transfer Agreements since 2010:

Year:	Removals:
2010	46
2011	33
2012	41
2013	44
2014	34
2015	57
2016	99
2017	107
2018	111
2019	136
2020	81
2021	73
2022	50
2023	33

Countries or Territories we have removed foreign national offenders to via Prisoner Transfer Agreements since 2010:

Albania	Denmark	Latvia	Slovakia
Austria	Ecuador	Lithuania	Slovenia
Belgium	Estonia	Macedonia	Spain
Bermuda	France	Malta	Sri Lanka
Bolivia	Germany	Montenegro	St Helena
Brazil	Ghana	Netherlands	Sweden
Bulgaria	Gibraltar	Nigeria	Switzerland
Canada	Greece	Norway	Turkey
Cayman	Hungary	Pakistan	Ukraine
Chile	India	Poland	Vietnam
Croatia	Ireland	Portugal	Iraq
Cyprus	Israel	Romania
Czech Republic	Italy	Saudi

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Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Dec. 15 2023

Source Page: Statement on the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Document: Statement on the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (webpage)

Found: behalf of the following countries: Albania, Andorra, Canada, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro

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Written Question

Diplomatic Service

Friday 19th April 2024

Asked by: Julian Knight (Independent - Solihull)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, how many requests for consular support were made to each British Embassy or Consulate in 2023; and how many of those were responded to by officials within a period of 24 hours.

Answered by David Rutley

Our consular staff endeavour to give appropriate and tailored assistance 24 hours a day, seven days a week and 365 days a year, to British nationals overseas and their families in the UK who need support. In 2023, in addition to long running cases, we provided support to around 22,000 British nationals, see breakdown by Post in the table below. The FCDO reports publicly on consular delivery through the FCDO Outcome Delivery Plan [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/foreign-commonwealth-development-office-outcome-delivery-plan]. Publishing our transparency data is currently on hold while we embed a new Case Management system.

COUNTRY	2023
Afghanistan	22
Albania	63
Algeria	23
Angola
Argentina	34
Armenia	8
Australia	414
Austria	92
Azerbaijan	12
Bahrain	48
Barbados	113
Belarus	6
Belgium	152
Bolivia	12
Bosnia and Herzegovina	12
Botswana	15
Brazil	88
Bulgaria	166
Cambodia	112
Cameroon	30
Canada	181
Chile	21
China	143
Colombia	73
Congo (Democratic Republic)	22
Costa Rica	39
Croatia	114
Cuba	29
Cyprus	441
Czechia	141
Denmark	88
Dominican Republic	67
Ecuador	13
Egypt	383
Estonia	19
Ethiopia	104
Fiji	21
Finland	49
France	1027
Georgia	27
Germany	662
Ghana	85
Greece	936
Guatemala	43
Guinea
Guyana	17
Hong Kong SAR	110
Hungary	131
Iceland	17
India	360
Indonesia	196
Iraq	46
Ireland	104
Israel	39
Italy	411
Ivory Coast
Jamaica	179
Japan	167
Jerusalem	61
Jordan	71
Kazakhstan	14
Kenya	146
Kuwait	30
Kyrgyzstan
Laos	29
Latvia	20
Lebanon	34
Liberia
Lithuania	23
Luxembourg	10
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia	138
Malta	106
Mauritius	14
Mexico	207
Moldova	13
Mongolia	6
Montenegro	33
Morocco	222
Myanmar (Burma)	8
Namibia	9
Nepal	21
Netherlands	287
New Zealand	127
Nigeria	74
Norway	149
Oman	50
Pakistan	376
Panama	17
Paraguay
Peru	58
Philippines	283
Poland	242
Portugal	524
Qatar	96
Romania	89
Russia	28
Rwanda	7
Saudi Arabia	166
Senegal	21
Serbia	29
Seychelles	11
Sierra Leone	15
Singapore	105
Slovakia	38
Slovenia	17
South Africa	195
South Korea	40
Spain	4143
Sri Lanka	86
St Lucia	21
Sudan	34
Sweden	110
Switzerland	157
Taiwan	22
Tajikistan	6
Tanzania	36
Thailand	1383
The Gambia	48
Trinidad and Tobago	40
Tunisia	75
Turkey	947
Uganda	52
Ukraine	56
United Arab Emirates	658
United States	1649
Uruguay	10
Uzbekistan	8
Venezuela
Vietnam	188
Zambia	22
Zimbabwe	26

NB We do not publish data where figures are 5 or below to comply with GDPR

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