Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether she has had discussions with her Jamaican counterpart on the open letter put together by a coalition of Jamaican politicians, business leaders, doctors and musicians on colonialism and the payment of slavery reparations.

Slavery was and still is abhorrent. The British Government renews its expressions of deep sorrow that the transatlantic slave trade could ever have happened, and recognises the deep sense of injustice felt in Jamaica and the other most affected parts of the world.