Diana Johnson – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Diana Johnson on 2015-12-14.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what support his Department has provided to support trades union and workers’ rights in Guatemala in each of the last five years.

Mr Hugo Swire

Our support to trade unions and workers’ rights in Guatemala over the past five years has included direct approaches to the Guatemalan government, meetings between British officials and trade union representatives and approaches to the International Labour Organisation, through the European Union.