Written Question·Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office·UIN 53648

Genocide

Tabled: 20 May 2025

Answered: 2 June 2025

Named Day

Question

Claire Hanna

Social Democratic & Labour Party — Belfast South and Mid Down

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what his Department's definition of genocide is.

Answer

Stephen Doughty

As a State Party to the Genocide Convention, we adopt the definition of genocide as set out in Article II of the Genocide Convention.