Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports his Department has received on the demonstrations over economic policy proposals in Egypt on 11 November 2016.

Having been made aware of calls on social media for demonstrations, officials at the British Embassy in Cairo monitored the situation in the run-up to, and during, 11 November. There were reports of several small-scale demonstrations in some areas of Egypt and of several hundred individuals being arrested for participating in, or planning, protests.