Commonwealth Secretariat: Public Appointments

(asked on 18th October 2016) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will disclose which candidate for Secretary-General of the Commonwealth the UK voted for during the Commonwealth Head of Government Meeting in November 2015.


Answered by
Tobias Ellwood Portrait
Tobias Ellwood
This question was answered on 26th October 2016

Baroness Scotland was elected at a meeting to which only Heads of Government were invited. The Government never discloses how it votes.

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