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Question for Foreign and Commonwealth Office

UIN 10984, tabled on 9 October 2015

Question

Mark Pritchard
Conservative
The Wrekin
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to the Palestinian Authority on introducing legislation to abolish the death penalty.

Answer

Mr Tobias Ellwood
Conservative
Bournemouth East
Commons

Answered on

15 October 2015

The Government opposes all use of the death penalty as a matter of principle, including sentences imposed by the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. I have asked that my officials in Jerusalem raise the issue of the death penalty with the Palestinian Authority in due course.

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