Oral QuestionDepartment for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

“If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.”

Tabled: 13 October 2022Answered: 20 October 2022

Asked by

Dave Doogan

Scottish National Party — Angus and Perthshire Glens

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Answer from Hansard

The Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs (Ed Miliband)

On 8 September I announced new measures to tackle settlement expansion, including a sanctions regime to target those who support, facilitate or profit from illegal settlement activity. We are doing everything in our power to stop the prospect of a two-state solution being destroyed by the expansion of illegal settlements.