Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with his counterpart in Bangladesh on offering Muslim refugees fleeing Myanmar secured settlement.

​The UK has consistently called on the Government of Bangladesh at official and Ministerial level to grant the Rohingya community in Bangladesh formal refugee status. The Minister for Asia and the Pacific raised this point when he met the Bangladesh High Commissioner Nazmul Quaunine and the B​angladesh Foreign Secretary Shahidul Haque on 2 November. He also visited Bangladesh on 27 and 28 September.