Toby Perkins – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Toby Perkins on 2016-06-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the UK offered support to Saudi Arabia for the process of that country being elected to the UN Human Rights Council.

Mr Tobias Ellwood

Saudi Arabia was the only candidate put forward by the Asian Group for this seat in the UN’s Human Rights Council. So while the UK never publicises how it votes, this was not a contested election and the UK’s vote was immaterial.