Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, when she last met representatives of the Southern African Development Community.

The Secretary of State met with representatives of several Southern African Development Community (SADC) Member States at the signing of the UK-South African Customs Union and Mozambique Economic Partnership Agreement in October 2019. She also met the Honourable Pravind Kumar Jugnauth, Prime Minister of Mauritius, at the UK-Africa Investment Summit in January 2020.

The British High Commissioner in Gaborone (as the UK Special Representative to the SADC) and her team engage regularly with the SADC Secretariat on a range of economic, climate, and political issues – most recently, in June 2021.