Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Governments of each Overseas Territory on the response to Hurricane Irma since 7 September 2017.

The Foreign Secretary has spoken to the Governors of Anguilla and the British Virgin Islands; the Chief Minister of Anguilla; and the Premier of the British Virgin Islands since Hurricane Irma struck. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has kept in close contact with all the Governors before and since Irma hit the islands

The Foreign Secretary travelled to the Caribbean on 12 September, visiting Anguilla and the British Virgin Islands, where he saw at first hand the the UK's huge relief effort. During that visit he met with the Governors and others leading recovery efforts. He also visited local communities working to repair major damage.

We have received formal requests for UK assistance from the Governments of Anguilla, the Turks and Caicos Islands and the British Virgin Islands. We are working in partnership with the Overseas Territories Governments to assess their longer term needs in order to rebuild and how the UK will support that over the weeks, months and years to come.