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 German counterpart on securing financial contributions towards the cost of UK thalidomide survivors' health needs.

The Prime Minister, my right hon. Friend the Member for Witney (Mr Cameron), discussed the Thalidomide Trust’s campaign in March with Chancellor Merkel. We have since been informed by the Chancellery that officials from the relevant German Ministry will travel to London in July to meet representatives of the Trust.