Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to (a) promote free and fair elections and (b) support democratic institutions in Uganda.

​The UK regularly engages with all relevant partners – including the government, parliament, political parties, the Electoral Commission, the National Human Rights Commission and civil society - to encourage them to put in place the necessary conditions for free and fair elections. The UK also funds programmes which support improvements to Uganda’s democratic governance, including election monitoring.