Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his Australian counterpart on extremist activity in that country.

The Prime Minister, my right hon. Friend the Member for Witney (Mr Cameron), the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my right hon. Friend the Member for Runnymede and Weybridge (Mr Hammond) and I discuss this regularly with our counterparts, both in person and on the phone. Most recently, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and the Foreign Secretary discussed it when the PM visited the UK in August. I also had a bilateral discussion with FM Julie Bishop at the recent Asia Ministerial Summit in Milan on 16 October where we discussed this issue. Both Australia and the UK are part of the international coalition working together to counter the ISIL threat.