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Question for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

UIN 91124, tabled on 16 September 2020

Question

Sarah Olney
Liberal Democrat
Richmond Park
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure that the UK Government upholds the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

This answer is the replacement for a previous holding answer.

Answer

Nigel Adams
Conservative
Selby and Ainsty
Commons

Answered on

22 September 2020

As a signatory to the Rome Statute Her Majesty's Government is bound to uphold its provisions, and introduced the International Criminal Court (ICC) Act in 2001 to incorporate the statute into UK Law. Beyond our support for the work of the Court in holding to account the perpetrators of the most serious crimes of international concern, we also provide both practical and financial support to the ICC and are campaigning for the election of a UK judge to ICC Judiciary.

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