Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to the Director-General of the World Health Organisation on facilitating Taiwan being an observer at the 2018 World Health Assembly.

Foreign and Commonwealth Office officials have made a number of representations, with likeminded partners, to the World Health Organisation to facilitate Taiwan being an observer at this year's World Health Assembly. The British Government will continue to support Taiwan's participation at the WHA.