Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will raise at the UN the issue of a co-ordinated response to the threat of Boko Haram in North Eastern Nigeria.

We have continued to raise the threat posed by Boko Haram in regional and multinational forums, including at the United Nations. On 19 January, the United Nations Security Council adopted a Presidential Statement on Boko Haram and the recent abhorrent attacks in Nigeria. This statement condemned Boko Haram and welcomed plans by the region to take forward work on a Multinational Joint Task Force to further coordinate their efforts against Boko Haram.