Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office written question – answered at on 12 February 2024.
Beth Winter
Labour, Cynon Valley
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether he has made recent representations to his Spanish counterparts on proposals for a waste facility at the site of a mass grave close to Fuencarral Cemetery in Madrid.
Leo Docherty
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
The FCDO are aware of this proposal and consider it to be a matter for the competent local Spanish authorities, who we understand have paused the project to investigate the land in question. We will continue to monitor developments.
Yes1 person thinks so
No2 people think not
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