Written Question·Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office·UIN 98409

Kashmir: Christianity

Tabled: 9 December 2025
Answered: 18 December 2025

Question

Jim Shannon

Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of reports of the persecution of Christians in Kashmir.

Answer

Seema Malhotra
The UK is committed to promoting and defending freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) as a core element of our foreign policy, and India is one of the UK's priority countries for promoting FoRB. Where we have specific concerns, we raise them with the Govern...
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