Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many Government (a) Ministers and (b) officials have visited Eritrea since 2010; and on which occasions each such visit was made.

No UK Ministers have visited Eritrea since 2010. The UK Special Representative to Sudan visited in December 2011, and the FCO Migration Director led a delegation of six officials from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Home Office to Eritrea in December 2014. On each visit, UK officials held discussions with their Eritrean counterparts. More junior officials have visited Eritrea regularly during the course of normal diplomatic business.