Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has discussed the importance of an independent judiciary with his US counterpart.

​The Foreign Secretary met the US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Bonn on 16 February. During the meeting they reaffirmed our shared goals and agreed to work together on a range of global issues. The subject of an independent judiciary was not on the agenda.