HC Deb 13 March 1991 vol 187 cc544-5W
Mr. Simon Burns

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on Her Majesty's Government's human rights policy in respect of foreign countries.

Mr. Lennox-Boyd

We continue to develop an active and comprehensive human rights policy. It would not be possible to do it justice in a single document. We have however recently made public as a foreign policy document the guidelines issued to our posts abroad and FCO Departments at the end of last year. I am arranging to place a copy of the document, under the title "Human Rights in Foreign Policy", in the Library of the House.