| Heading: |
Iran: Women |
| Question ID: |
1803875 |
| UIN: |
53110 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-05-19 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4475 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Suella Braverman
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| Asking Member handle: |
suellabraverman
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@suellabraverman
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of taking legislative steps to help encourage Iran to improve the freedom of women and girls in that country. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-03 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
5148 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Mr Hamish Falconer
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| Answering Member handle: |
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Mr Hamish Falconer
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Answer text: |
We have not taken legal action regarding Iran's abhorrent repression of women and girls. However, we continue to stand with Iranian women and girls in their daily fight for equal rights. The UK was instrumental in delivering the Iran human rights resoluti... |
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| Answering body ID: |
208 |
| Answering body name: |
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office |
| Tweeted: |
true |