Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has discussed the Balfour Declaration of 1917 with his Israeli counterpart in the context of Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories since 8 September 2026.

The Foreign Secretary has not discussed the Balfour Declaration with his Israeli counterpart since 8 September 2026. The Government continues to engage regularly with the Government of Israel on issues relating to illegal settlement expansion and settler violence terrorism. The UK's position remains that settlements are illegal under international law and undermine the viability of a two-state solution. I refer the honourable member to the Foreign Secretary's statement on the 8 September.