questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions her Department has had with participating European countries regarding compliance with obligations under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.
answerText: The Government takes International Parental Child Abduction (IPCA) extremely seriously. For example, the Foreign Secretary raised IPCA with her Polish counterpart on 25 June 2026, and our Embassy in Bucharest convened a working group focused on improving ...
heading: Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction