{"value":{"id":1752853,"askingMemberId":4358,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2025-01-06T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2025-01-08T00:00:00","uin":"22005","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking with international partners to prosecute the former President of Syria Bashar al-Assad.","answeringBodyId":208,"answeringBodyName":"Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":5148,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2025-01-15T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>The UK will work closely with civil society and the international community to support a Syrian-led transitional justice and accountability programme to ensure that those responsible for war crimes and other atrocities are held to account. Accountability is key to any sustainable transition.</p><p>We will continue to support partners who are playing a pivotal role in developing a credible evidence base to record atrocities committed by the former regime and others. This year alone, we have committed £1.15 million to accountability and documentation-related programmes.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Bashar al-Assad","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1752853","method":"GET"}]}