Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the answer by the Earl of Courtown on 6 March (HL Deb, col 992), what assessment they have made of reports that the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo met with multinational mining companies to seek increased royalties; and whether any British companies took part in that meeting.
President Kabila held a meeting with numerous mining firms on 7 March 2018 but we are unaware of any British companies taking part in the meeting.