Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions he had with the Government of India on his recent visit to that country.
The Foreign Secretary met with Prime Minister Modi, the Minister of External Affairs Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, the Minister for the Environment Prakash Javadekar and the Minister for Education Ramesh Pokhriyal. He outlined that a closer relationship with India, and engagement in the wider Indo-Pacific region, were amongst the highest policy priorities of Her Majesty's Government. The Foreign Secretary and his counterpart, Dr Jaishanker, agreed on the key elements of a ten year roadmap in which the UK and India enhance mutual prosperity through cooperation on trade, defence and security, climate, and health.