A question on #Surveillance #MinorityGroups tabled by Sir Iain Duncan Smith on 15-05-2025 has been answered by Stephen Doughty.

Heading: Surveillance: Minority Groups
Question ID: 1803419
UIN: 52578
House: Commons
Date tabled: 2025-05-15
Asking Member ID: 152
Asking Member display name: Sir Iain Duncan Smith
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Asking Member Twitter reference: Sir Iain Duncan Smith
Member interest: false
Question text: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the use of surveillance technology by authoritarian governments to target religious minorities;
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Date answered: 2025-05-27
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Answering Member ID: 4264
Answering Member display name: Stephen Doughty
Answering Member handle: SDoughtyMP
Answering Member Twitter reference: @SDoughtyMP
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Answer text: The UK remains strongly committed to freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) for all abroad. We are working bilaterally and multilaterally to hold countries to account for repression of religious or belief minorities.The UK takes its export control responsib...
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Answering body ID: 208
Answering body name: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Tweeted: true