Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government when a government minister last visited Belize, and whether they discussed the treatment of homosexuals with representatives of the government of Belize during that visit.

The Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my right hon. Friend the Member for East Devon (Mr Swire), visited Belize in November 2012; and the former Parliamentary Under Secretary of State and Minister for International Security Strategy at the Ministry of Defence, my hon. Friend the Member for South West Wiltshire (Dr Murrison), visited Belize in March 2013. Our High Commissioner in Belmopan regularly raises human rights and the treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people with representatives of the Belizean government.