Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will publish a readout of his recent call with Samantha Power, Administrator of the US Agency for International Development.
The Foreign Secretary spoke with USAID Administrator, Samantha Power on 19 July. They discussed a number of shared foreign policy and international development priorities, including Afghanistan, the humanitarian crisis in Tigray, our shared agenda to increase green investment in infrastructure, and global vaccine supply. The Foreign Secretary also underlined the UK's desire to see a strong US contribution to the Global Partnership for Education ahead of the replenishment summit hosted jointly by the Prime Minister and President Kenyatta of Kenya on 29 July in London.