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Question for Foreign and Commonwealth Office

UIN 115542, tabled on 23 November 2017

Question

Sammy Wilson
Democratic Unionist Party
East Antrim
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will establish a funding stream for programmes to support freedom of religion or belief.

Answer

Mark Field
Conservative
Cities of London and Westminster
Commons

Answered on

7 December 2017

​The protection of Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB) is a priority of the Government's foreign policy. Projects that directly support FoRB are funded through the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Magna Carta Fund for Human Rights and Democracy. In 2017/18 the Magna Carta Fund will spend £758,717 on six Freedom of Religion or Belief projects. Bids to support FoRB work from the Magna c​arta Fund are currently being invited for financial year 2018/19.

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