PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Commonwealth: Capital Punishment (13 September 2016)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure more members of the Commonwealth abolish the death penalty.
Asked by:
Mark Pritchard (Conservative)
Asked by:
Mark Pritchard (Conservative)
Answer
The Government supports a global moratorium on use of the death penalty as a step towards eventual abolition. Since 2010 the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has funded a number of projects promoting reform of the death penalty in individual Commonwealth countries. We also continue to engage diplomatically and urge Commonwealth countries to support the United Nation’s resolution on a global moratorium on the death penalty later this year.
Answered by:
Lord Sharma (Conservative)
21 September 2016
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