Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations his Department has received from Arctic Indigenous peoples on his proposed revised Arctic Policy Framework.

​The Government works in conjunction with Arctic Indigenous peoples towards a safe and secure Arctic, including through the Arctic Council. Foreign and Commonwealth Office officials recently heard the concerns of some of the Arctic’s Indigenous peoples at the “Arctic Voices” event hosted by the All Party Parliamentary Group for the Polar Regions. The UK remains of the view that only responsible development should take place in the Arctic region.