Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions his Department has had with Buckingham Palace on the gift of a gold chain from the alleged Crown Prince Davit of Georgia.

In line with the normal process for accepting gifts, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Buckingham Palace discussed the offer. As this gift was officially supported by the Georgian Government, it was graciously accepted as being in the spirit of the good relations between two close allies.