Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what criteria his Department uses in advice to the Royal Family on the suitability of accepting gifts.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office refers to the guidelines and procedures governing the acceptance, classification, recording, retention and disposal of gifts by Members of The Royal Family set out by Buckingham Palace and published on the Royal.uk website, and where appropriate consults the government of the country concerned.