Estimates: FCDO spending on the international development strategy
The debate on 6 July will focus on the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) spending and the new international development strategy, published in May 2022.

A "Debate on a Motion on Mass Human Rights Abuses and Crimes Against Humanity in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region" has been scheduled for Thursday 22 April 2021 in the main House of Commons Chamber. The debate was selected by the Backbench Business Committee.
China and the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (338 KB , PDF)
Xinjiang is China’s largest administrative region and has been an Autonomous Region since 1955. The largest ethnic group is the Muslim, Turkic-speaking Uighurs. There are about 12 million Uighurs, making up just under half of the 25-million population of Xinjiang.
The Uighurs speak their own language, similar to Turkish. There are smaller Uighur populations in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan, the latter two of which border Xinjiang (the region also has borders with Tajikistan, Mongolia, Pakistan, Afghanistan and India).
A number of NGOs and UN bodies have chronicled restrictive and oppressive measures employed by the Chinese authorities against ethnic minorities in Xinjiang province (MPs referred to such reports during a debate on human rights in Xinjiang in Westminster Hall January 2019 and on China’s policy on its Uighur population in March 2020).
The Chinese state has repeatedly rejected such reports. The Chinese Ambassador to the UK, Liu Xiaoming, appeared on the Andrew Marr show in July 2020 to reject claims about detention camps, describing them as “fake”.
There are some separatist groups in Xinjiang that want to break away from Chinese rule and have on occasion used violent tactics. China has pointed to such incidents to justify its approach in the region saying it is tackling “terrorism”, and is trying to “de-radicalise” the population.
China and the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (338 KB , PDF)
The debate on 6 July will focus on the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) spending and the new international development strategy, published in May 2022.
A Migration and Economic Development partnership was agreed between the UK and Rwanda in April 2022. It allows the UK to send some people to Rwanda who would otherwise claim asylum in the UK. A judicial review to consider the lawfulness of the asylum arrangement is due to be heard in mid-July. This briefing provides an overview of the UK-Rwanda asylum arrangement, related legal issues and areas of controversy, and Parliament's role in scrutinising it.
A Westminster Hall debate on the anniversaries of the handover of Hong Kong and the implementation of the National Security Law is scheduled for Wednesday 29 June 2022, from 9:30-11:00am. The debate will be led by Sir Iain Duncan Smith MP.