Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth.

The Foreign Secretary last met the Commonwealth Secretary-General at the virtual Commonwealth Foreign Affairs Ministers Meeting (CFAMM), which he chaired on 14 October 2020. Lord (Tariq) Ahmad of Wimbledon, Minister of State for South Asia and the Commonwealth, regularly engages with the Secretary-General in Commonwealth meetings, including the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group Meeting CMAG, which last met on 24 March 2021. The UK Commonwealth Envoy regularly takes part in meetings with the Secretary-General, in his capacity as a Governor of the Commonwealth Secretariat.