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Persecution of Christians across the Globe Independent Review

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Question for Foreign and Commonwealth Office

UIN 292977, tabled on 1 October 2019

Question

Eddie Hughes
Conservative
Walsall North
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when the Cabinet plans to discuss the recommendations of the Bishop of Truro’s Independent Review for the Foreign Secretary of FCO Support for Persecuted Christians.

Answer

Mrs Heather Wheeler
Conservative
South Derbyshire
Commons

Answered on

7 October 2019

​Work has begun to implement the recommendations from the Bishop of Truro's Review in a way that will bring real improvements in the lives of those persecuted because of their faith or belief. In accordance with the Bishop's recommendation, the former Foreign Secretary wrote to Ministerial counterparts to ask them to take note of the Review's recommendations. We are now considering how we might best take forward a Cabinet discussion of Freedom of Religion or Belief in a way that galvanises cross-governmental action on this issue.

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