Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether British High Commission staff in Colombo have held meetings with employees of the Crosby-Textor strategy group; and whether the Government has (a) allocated and (b) disbursed funding to support work by the Crosby-Textor group in Sri Lanka.

Officials from the High Commission in Colombo meet with a range of stakeholders. The British Government has not funded any work by the Crosby Textor Group in Sri Lanka.