Israel: Visits Abroad

(asked on 7th November 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether she informed her Department and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of her visit to Israel between 13 and 25 August 2017 before she travelled to Israel.


Answered by
Penny Mordaunt Portrait
Penny Mordaunt
Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons
This question was answered on 13th November 2017

My Rt Hon Friend the member for Witham (Ms Patel) resigned as Secretary of State for International Development on 8 November. Neither the Department for International Development nor the Foreign and Commonwealth Office were aware of the visit in advance.

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