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To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they are taking to enforce United Nations Security Council Resolution 2023, passed in 2011, which outlawed the “2 per cent tax” on the United Kingdom earnings of Eritreans living in the United Kingdom, being enforced by the government of Eritrea. [HL5333]
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they are taking to enforce United Nations Security Council Resolution 2023, passed in 2011, which outlawed the “2 per cent tax” on the United Kingdom earnings of Eritreans living in the United Kingdom, being enforced by the government of Eritrea. [HL5333]
The UK supports United Nations Security Council resolution (UNSCR) 2023, which condemned Eritrea’s use of the Diaspora tax and called on Eritrea to cease using illicit means to collect the tax. The UK has made clear that the use of coercion or other illicit means to collect the tax in the UK must cease. Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) officials last raised this on 25 October 2013 in a meeting with the Eritrean Ambassador.
On 8 November 2013, officials from the FCO, the National Crime Agency and West Yorkshire Police met members of the Eritrean Diaspora to discuss the Diaspora tax. At this meeting, Eritreans were urged to report any use of coercion or other illicit means to collect the tax to the police. We will continue to engage with the Diaspora on this issue.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the total amount spent on alcohol during 2012–13 by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.[HL2807]
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the total amount spent on alcohol during 2012–13 by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.[HL2807]
This information is not held centrally and is available only at disproportionate cost. Foreign and Commonwealth Office expenditure on alcohol is determined by business requirements. Expenditure on business hospitality is kept under rigorous scrutiny in accordance with the principles of Managing Public Money and the Treasury Handbook on Regularity, Propriety and Value for Money.