Kazakhstan - Written Answers

Written Question

Central Asia: Climate Change

Thursday 18th May 2023

Asked by: Catherine West (Labour - Hornsey and Friern Barnet)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his Central Asian counterparts on (a) climate change cooperation and (b) reduction in emissions.

Answered by Leo Docherty

We regularly engage on climate change and reducing emissions in Central Asia, both bilaterally and through multilateral fora. For example, during his visit to Astana in March the Foreign Secretary signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Kazakhstan to encourage collaboration in developing and applying hydrogen technology. The Minister for Europe has also raised climate issues in meetings with interlocutors from Central Asia, and we have dedicated officials based in the region who lead on climate and environmental matters for the UK. We provide funding to a number of projects in the region which aim to improve climate cooperation and reduce the emissions produced by the Central Asian states.

Written Question

State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad

Monday 15th May 2023

Asked by: Rob Roberts (Independent - Delyn)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average amount of state pension paid to individuals who live outside the UK is; and if he will provide a breakdown of the average state pension payment in each country in which recipients reside.

Answered by Laura Trott - Shadow Secretary of State for Education

In November 2020, the average (mean) amount of State Pension paid to individuals who live outside the UK was £70.61 per week.

Table 1. Average Amount of State Pension paid to individuals who live outside the UK, November 2020

Residency	Mean Weekly State Pension Amount
Outside United Kingdom	£ 70.61

Source: Stat-Xplore - Home (dwp.gov.uk)

Below is a table of the average (mean) amount of State Pension paid to individuals who live outside the UK, broken down by country of residence, in November 2020.

Table 2. Average Amount of State Pension by Country of Residence, November 2020

Country of Residence	Mean Weekly State Pension Amount
Abroad - Not known	£ 112.62
Albania	£ 110.57
Alderney	£ 126.99
Algeria	£ 62.41
Andorra	£ 94.96
Anguilla	£ 64.93
Antigua	£ 74.02
Argentina	£ 65.18
Aruba	£ 60.29
Ascension Island	£ 91.68
Australia	£ 50.09
Austria	£ 49.24
Azerbaijan	£ 166.77
Bahamas	£ 66.64
Bahrain	£ 97.27
Bangladesh	£ 39.49
Barbados	£ 116.97
Belarus	£ 111.17
Belgium	£ 63.62
Belize	£ 85.01
Bermuda	£ 81.36
Bolivia	£ 106.19
Bosnia and Herzegovina	£ 73.12
Botswana	£ 75.98
Brazil	£ 81.20
Brunei	£ 121.78
Bulgaria	£ 122.47
Burkina Faso	£ 54.09
Cambodia	£ 119.76
Cameroon	£ 58.81
Canada	£ 46.34
Cape Verde	£ 52.18
Cayman Islands	£ 89.42
Chile	£ 72.13
China	£ 96.39
Colombia	£ 89.09
Cook Islands	£ 57.92
Costa Rica	£ 81.75
Cyprus	£ 122.54
Denmark	£ 58.40
Dom Commonwealth (Dominica)	£ 77.73
Dominican Republic	£ 107.52
Dutch Caribbean	£ 67.76
Ecuador	£ 85.95
Egypt	£ 78.64
El Salvador	£ 80.36
Equatorial Guinea	£ 142.11
Ethiopia	£ 88.34
Falkland Islands and Dependencies	£ 85.64
Faroe Islands	£ 33.01
Fiji	£ 73.66
Finland	£ 58.89
France	£ 113.52
French Overseas Departments	£ 84.34
French Polynesia	£ 55.84
Gambia	£ 91.46
Germany	£ 46.48
Ghana	£ 56.69
Gibraltar	£ 100.77
Greece	£ 109.44
Greenland	£ 23.21
Grenada	£ 77.33
Guam	£ 83.49
Guatemala	£ 77.73
Guernsey	£ 84.86
Guyana	£ 60.60
Honduras	£ 79.02
Hong Kong	£ 85.42
Hungary	£ 102.32
Iceland	£ 71.68
India	£ 50.10
Indonesia	£ 106.53
Iran	£ 70.85
Iraq	£ 64.11
Ireland	£ 66.41
Isle of Man	£ 127.85
Israel	£ 101.27
Italy	£ 56.79
Jamaica	£ 116.05
Japan	£ 46.97
Jersey	£ 70.02
Jordan	£ 67.90
Kazakhstan	£ 124.13
Kenya	£ 79.34
Kuwait	£ 103.54
Kyrgyzstan	£ 76.07
Laos	£ 100.66
Lebanon	£ 88.20
Lesotho	£ 59.64
Liechtenstein	£ 28.62
Luxembourg	£ 83.34
Macau	£ 77.52
Madagascar	£ 62.23
Malawi	£ 71.90
Malaysia	£ 77.87
Malta	£ 104.22
Mauritius	£ 108.25
Mexico	£ 74.98
Moldova	£ 124.94
Monaco	£ 111.96
Montserrat	£ 65.67
Morocco	£ 75.51
Mozambique	£ 74.56
Myanmar	£ 84.84
Namibia	£ 70.17
Nepal	£ 63.99
Netherlands	£ 55.81
Nevis, St Kitts-Nevis	£ 75.56
New Caledonia	£ 79.61
New Zealand	£ 46.44
Nicaragua	£ 79.72
Nigeria	£ 27.65
Norfolk Island	£ 55.18
North Macedonia	£ 24.20
Norway	£ 58.24
Oman	£ 89.53
Pakistan	£ 48.74
Panama	£ 96.96
Papua New Guinea	£ 75.49
Paraguay	£ 68.41
Peru	£ 88.02
Philippines	£ 138.86
Poland	£ 59.39
Portugal	£ 119.47
Puerto Rico	£ 77.32
Qatar	£ 113.55
Republic of Croatia	£ 62.10
Republic of Estonia	£ 78.98
Republic of Georgia	£ 129.54
Republic of Latvia	£ 68.34
Republic of Lithuania	£ 42.71
Republic of Slovenia	£ 60.38
Romania	£ 99.40
Russia	£ 85.51
Saint Helena & Dependencies	£ 89.27
San Marino	£ 29.33
Sark	£ 117.68
Saudi Arabia	£ 86.88
Senegal	£ 74.13
Serbia	£ 123.58
Seychelles	£ 79.10
Sierra Leone	£ 52.66
Singapore	£ 89.20
Solomon Islands	£ 79.08
Somalia	£ 44.20
South Africa	£ 56.52
South Korea	£ 41.69
Spain	£ 120.61
Sri Lanka	£ 59.98
St Lucia	£ 76.63
St Vincent & Grenadines	£ 80.10
State Union of Serbia and Montenegro	£ 53.44
Sudan	£ 71.27
Suriname	£ 151.95
Swaziland	£ 79.26
Sweden	£ 57.52
Switzerland	£ 51.98
Syria	£ 63.61
Tahiti	£ 77.00
Taiwan	£ 105.85
Tanzania	£ 87.61
Thailand	£ 119.10
The Czech Republic	£ 92.30
The Slovak Republic	£ 49.82
Togo	£ 50.10
Tonga	£ 73.36
Tours (Individuals on Tour)	£ 133.34
Trinidad & Tobago	£ 55.37
Tunisia	£ 88.16
Turkey	£ 132.24
Turks and Caicos Islands	£ 118.32
Uganda	£ 88.33
Ukraine	£ 115.86
United Arab Emirates	£ 107.46
United States	£ 74.19
United States Minor Outlying Islands	£ 75.89
Uruguay	£ 77.74
Vanuatu	£ 85.86
Venezuela	£ 67.62
Vietnam	£ 125.09
Virgin Islands (British)	£ 91.77
Virgin Islands (USA)	£ 72.74
Western Samoa	£ 34.12
Yemen	£ 42.90
Zambia	£ 75.67
Zimbabwe	£ 48.98

Source: Stat-Xplore - Home (dwp.gov.uk)

Written Question

Central Asia: Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Monday 15th May 2023

Asked by: Catherine West (Labour - Hornsey and Friern Barnet)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions has he had with his counterparts in Central Asian states on (a) climate cooperation, (b) reducing methane emissions and (c) reducing CO2 emissions.

Answered by Leo Docherty

We regularly engage on climate change and reducing emissions in Central Asia, both bilaterally and through multilateral fora. For example, during his visit to Astana in March the Foreign Secretary signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Kazakhstan to encourage collaboration in developing and applying hydrogen technology. The Minister for Europe has also raised climate issues in meetings with interlocutors from Central Asia, and we have dedicated officials based in the region who lead on climate and environmental matters for the UK. We provide funding to a number of projects in the region which aim to improve climate cooperation, and reduce the emissions produced by the Central Asian states.

Written Question

Kazakhstan: Russia

Friday 28th April 2023

Asked by: Lord Alton of Liverpool (Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government, following the remarks of the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs on 18 March that the UK’s relationship with Kazakhstan has “great growth potential”, what assessment they have made of Kazakhstan’s support for Russia’s evasion of sanctions.

Answered by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon

The UK Government welcomes the public commitments made by the Government of Kazakhstan that it will not be a back door for sanctions evasion. The measures that Kazakhstan is implementing to prevent sanctions circumvention have been part of our bilateral dialogue over the last year. Senior officials from the FCDO sanctions team are visiting Kazakhstan this month to discuss sanctions enforcement with the Kazakh Government. We look forward to ongoing close consultation in this area.

Written Question

Kazakhstan: Politics and Government

Wednesday 5th April 2023

Asked by: Viscount Waverley (Crossbench - Excepted Hereditary)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with the government of Kazakhstan regarding knowledge sharing and capacity building on (1) sanctions compliance, (2) anti-money laundering measures, (3) regulation of cryptocurrencies, and (4) ‘Know Your Customer’ compliance.

Answered by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon

The UK Government has recently had several high-level engagements with the Government of Kazakhstan, including hosting the UK-Kazakhstan Strategic Dialogue in December, the UK-Kazakh Intergovernmental Commission on Trade and Investment in February and the Foreign Secretary's visit to Astana on 18 March, meeting President Tokayev and other senior Kazakhs. In our engagements, we continually emphasise the importance of developing and maintaining a quality business environment to support international investment into Kazakhstan. Although senior meetings have not covered the cryptocurrency regulations, the UK successfully ran a pilot project in 2022 on financial compliance to assess different types of training on tackling illicit finance.

Written Question

Trade Barriers: Kazakhstan

Monday 3rd April 2023

Asked by: Viscount Waverley (Crossbench - Excepted Hereditary)

Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the UK–Ukraine Digital Trade Agreement, what discussions they have had with the government of Kazakhstan regarding assistance in removing barriers to digital trade or signing a similar agreement.

Answered by Lord Johnson of Lainston

The UK continues to work to strengthen our trade and investment relationships with countries such as Kazakhstan. Fast growing economies such as Kazakhstan provide an abundance of opportunities for UK businesses across a wide range of sectors – notwithstanding our world leading digital sector.

The Department for Business and Trade is supporting British business to grab these opportunities through trade dialogues and regular exchanges including the annual United Kingdom-Kazakhstan Inter-Governmental Commission on Trade and Investment that I co-chaired earlier this year in February in London.

At this moment, we are not expecting to launch negotiations with Kazakhstan on a Digital Trade Agreement.

Written Question

State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad

Thursday 30th March 2023

Asked by: Wendy Chamberlain (Liberal Democrat - North East Fife)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many UK pensioners living overseas had their pensions suspended in (a) 2019, (b) 2020, (c) 2021 due to (i) non-return and (ii) late return of life certificates, broken down by country of residence.

Answered by Laura Trott - Shadow Secretary of State for Education

DWP holds data relating to the late and non-return of a Life Certificate for the 2019 period, which resulted in the temporary suspension of a customer’s State Pension payments. In 2019, 26,206 claims were temporarily suspended, which is broken down by country as shown in the following table: -

Country	Number of State Pension claims temporarily suspended in 2019 due to the late or non-return of a completed Life Certificate

India	1,280
Uganda	65
Iceland	11
Costa Rica	24
Ukraine	21
Gambia	37
Jamaica	2,269
Nigeria	1,265
Venezuela	39
Sierra Leone	35
Dominican Republic	30
Ecuador	52
Greece	539
Bulgaria	256
Poland	116
Netherlands	624
Hong Kong	124
Fiji	4
Anguilla	9
Jordan	13
Montserrat	14
Malawi	4
Canada	15,798
Cook Islands	0
Norfolk Islands	3
Papua New Guinea	11
Western Samoa	2
Ascension Island	1
Lesotho	8
Dominica	277
South Korea	52
Oman	55
Lebanon	35
Romania	69
Peru	33
Serbia	63
Namibia	26
Libya	3
Tonga	4
Cape Verde Islands	5
Belarus	2
Bangladesh	473
Mauritius	125
Azerbaijan	4
Kazakhstan	2
Vietnam	74
Virgin Islands (British)	25
Estonia	10
Taiwan	19
Panama	36
Uruguay	19
Kuwait	28
Liechtenstein	6
Antilles (Netherlands)	11
St Kitts & Nevis	76
Switzerland	1,529
Brazil	164
Vanuatu	11
Bolivia	30
Cambodia	37
Nepal	26
Brunei	9
Bosnia Herzegovina	7
Ethiopia	14
Iran	14
Hungary	127
Swaziland	29
Russia	23

As a result of the outbreak of COVID in 2020, DWP suspended the Life Certificate exercise in March 2020, to ensure that our customers were not negatively impacted by any postal service issues which could have resulted in their State Pension payments being temporarily suspended. Therefore, DWP does not hold any data for this period.

DWP reintroduced the Life Certificate exercise in November 2021. Therefore, DWP does not hold any data for 2021, as any potential suspensions would be applied after 16 weeks of issue of the Life Certificate, which would mean that the suspension occurred in 2022.

The Management Information used has been taken from the same operational source data systems as our published administrative data. However, as this Management Information is not a recognised National or Official Statistic, it has not been subjected to the same level of Quality Assurance. As a result, these figures should be treated with caution.

Written Question

State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad

Thursday 23rd March 2023

Asked by: Margaret Ferrier (Independent - Rutherglen and Hamilton West)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in receipt of a UK pension live in countries without a reciprocal social security agreement with the UK by (a) the country they live in and (b) their gender.

Answered by Laura Trott - Shadow Secretary of State for Education

This information is published on Stat-Xplore https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk and currently extends to November 2020.

The number of people in receipt of a UK State Pension living in countries without a reciprocal social security agreement with the UK is 298,294.

The breakdown by country and gender are shown in the tables below:

Country of State Pension receipt	Male	Female
Antigua	141	166
Albania	8	7
Algeria	13	5
Andorra	91	74
Anguilla	33	48
Antilles (Netherlands)	20	19
Argentina	128	132
Aruba	..	6
Ascension Island	7	..
Australia	100,047	122,289
Bahamas	116	139
Bahrain	79	48
Bangladesh	175	795
Belize	57	38
Bolivia	17	12
Botswana	89	55
Brazil	485	284
Brunei	16	8
Burkina Faso	..	..
Burma (Myanmar)	..	..
Cameroon	6	5
Cape Verde Islands	..	6
Cayman Islands	111	78
Chile	168	141
China People's Republic	249	74
Colombia	128	127
Cook Islands	9	..
Costa Rica	65	38
Dom Commonwealth (Dominica)	217	244
Dominican Republic	26	17

Country of State Pension receipt	Male	Female
Ecuador	54	33
Egypt	189	116
El Salvador	8	5
Equatorial Guinea	..	..
Ethiopia	22	7
Falkland Islands & Dep	47	26
Faroe Islands	5	7
Fiji	63	28
French Polynesia	..	..
Gambia	44	23
Ghana	451	388
Greenland	..	..
Grenada	402	500
Guatemala	7	5
Guyana	110	101
Honduras	6	8
Hong Kong	1,510	904
India	2,145	2,113
Indonesia	314	42
Iran	21	11
Iraq	5	..
Japan	4,644	2,158
Jordan	72	46
Kampuchea	40	..
Kenya	345	305
Kuwait	10	5
Laos	19	..
Lebanon	73	49
Lesotho	6	7
Macau	7	..

Country of State Pension receipt	Male	Female
Malagasy Republic	6	5
Malawi	39	31
Malaysia	1,072	1,159
Mexico	241	228
Monaco	246	143
Montserrat	29	40
Morocco	112	70
Mozambique	9	..
Namibia	49	42
Nepal	29	13
Nevis, St Kitts-Nevis	131	148
New Caledonia	8	10
Nicaragua	15	6
Nigeria	1,090	804
Norfolk Island	..	..
Oman	71	29
Pakistan	1,103	1,579
Panama	23	14
Papua New Guinea	8	5
Paraguay	14	8
Peru	66	64
Qatar	41	15
Republic of Azerbaijan	11	..
Republic of Belarus	13	12
Republic of Georgia	19	..
Republic of Kazakhstan	12	..
Republic of Kyrgyzstan	5	..
Republic of Moldova	5	..
Republic of Yemen	172	501
Russian Federation	95	41
San Marino	..	..
Saudi Arabia	75	20
Senegal	..	8
Seychelles	73	78
Sierra Leone	18	27
Singapore	514	359

Country of State Pension receipt	Male	Female
Solomon Islands	..	..
Somalia	9	13
South Africa	12,932	17,411
South Korea	288	91
Sri Lanka	557	572
St Helena & Deps	56	48
St Lucia	376	454
St Vincents & Grenadines	221	229
Sudan	5	..
Surinam	5	..
Swaziland	42	37
Syria	5	..
Tahiti	7	..
Taiwan	88	20
Tanzania	54	23
Thailand	4,777	586
Togo	..	..
Tonga	8	6
Trinidad & Tobago	456	843
Tunisia	62	53
Turks & Caicos Islands	17	6
Uganda	47	26
Ukraine	59	33
United Arab Emirates	431	180
United States Minor Outlying Islands	..	5
Uruguay	35	27
Vanuatu	24	13
Venezuela	24	16
Vietnam	105	14
Virgin Islands (British)	28	19
Western Samoa	..	..
Zambia	79	86
Zimbabwe	311	546

Please note:

1. The ".." denotes a nil or negligible number of claimants or award amount based on a nil or negligible number of claimants.

Written Question

Coking Coal: Imports

Wednesday 15th March 2023

Asked by: Mark Jenkinson (Conservative - Workington)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much coking coal has been imported since 2018; and what the value was of the imports by country of origin.

Answered by Victoria Atkins - Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is responsible for the collection and publication of data on imports and exports of goods to and from the UK. HMRC releases this information monthly, as a National Statistic called the Overseas Trade in Goods Statistics (OTS), which is available via their dedicated website (www.uktradeinfo.com). From this website, it is possible to build your own data tables based upon bespoke search criteria.

The quantity and value of coking coal imported by country of origin from 2018 onwards appears in the table below.

Prior to 2022, the source of data for movements from the EU to the UK was Intrastat, this did not collect information on country of origin. The information on the country of dispatch has been given as an alternative.

Imports of Coking coal '27011210' from EU Member States by Country of Dispatch, 2018-2021
Year	Country of Dispatch	Statistical Value (£)	Net mass (kg)
2018	Ireland	6,013,523	23,926,410
2019	Ireland	6,549,306	26,035,264
2020	Ireland	7,451,763	29,642,038
2020	Poland	10,279	17,354
2021	Ireland	6,099,655	24,252,668
2021	Poland	13,977	27,632
		26,138,503	103,901,366

Imports of Coking coal '27011210' by Country of Origin, 2018-2022
Year	Country of Origin	Statistical Value (£)	Net mass (kg)
2018	Australia	141,968,735	722,193,000
2018	Japan	55,241,352	176,000,000
2018	Russia	87,702,370	808,461,607
2018	United States	159,587,927	1,000,531,665
2019	Australia	105,663,842	507,541,670
2019	Japan	12,732,709	44,000,000
2019	Russia	80,538,472	783,977,229
2019	United States	121,656,062	827,660,496
2020	Australia	46,943,870	411,294,000
2020	Russia	51,751,791	792,601,202
2020	United States	91,348,179	918,790,529
2021	Australia	53,099,836	463,973,000
2021	Brazil	18,484,677	155,895,000
2021	Russia	57,298,064	557,418,494
2021	United States	102,420,594	796,150,720
2022	Unknown	10,340,349	26,014,912
2022	Australia	125,256,312	381,674,000
2022	Canada	13,898,412	38,500,000
2022	Kazakhstan	4,852	28,640
2022	Russia	14,639,058	80,642,000
2022	Sweden	17,356,927	157,638,000
2022	United States	303,375,807	999,093,710
		1,671,310,197	10,650,079,874

	Grand Total	1,697,448,700	10,753,981,240
			Data source: Overseas Trade Statistics
Note:
1. 'Unknown' country of origin has not been disclosed and is left blank on entry to the customs declaration data.
2. Sanctions against imports from Russia began in February 2022 following Russian military action in Ukraine.
3. Prior to 2022, the source of data for movements from the EU to the UK was Intrastat, this did not collect information on country of origin.

Country	Trade Envoy		Date of PM Appointment
LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN
Colombia, Chile, Peru, Argentina	Mark Menzies MP (Con)		September 2016 & September 2017 for Argentina
Panama, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica	Baroness Hooper of Liverpool (Con)		October 2020
Brazil	Marco Longhi MP (Con)		August 2021
AFRICA
Algeria	Lord Risby of Haverhill (Con)		November 2012
Uganda & Rwanda (watching brief for DRC)	Lord Popat (Con)		January 2016
Egypt and Cameroon	Sir Jeffrey Donaldson MP (DUP)		January 2016 & August 2021 for Cameroon
Nigeria	Helen Grant MP (Con)		October 2020
Kenya	Theo Clarke MP (Con)		Reappointed May 2023
South Africa & Mauritius	Andrew Selous MP(Con)		September 2017 & January 2023 for Mauritius
Tanzania	Lord Walney (Non-Affiliated)		August 2021
Ghana	Baroness Hoey (Non-Affiliated)		August 2021
Tunisia & Libya	Yvonne Fovargue MP (Lab)		March 2022
Angola, Zambia & Ethiopia	Laurence Robertson MP (Con)		Reappointed March 2023
MIDDLE EAST
Israel	Lord Austin of Dudley (Non-affiliated)		October 2020
Iran	Lord Lamont of Lerwick (Con)		January 2016
Lebanon	Lord Risby of Haverhill (Con)		August 2019
Iraq	Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne (Con)		January 2014
Jordan, Kuwait & Palestine Territories	Baroness Morris of Bolton (Con)		November 2012
UAE	Gareth Thompson MP (Con)		March 2023
EECAN
Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan	Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne (Con)		April 2016 & Kazakhstan July 2017
Mongolia	Daniel Kawczynski MP (Con)		October 2020
Ukraine	Baroness Meyer (Con)		October 2020
Turkey	Lord Hutton (Lab)		May 2022
EUROPE
Switzerland & Liechtenstein		Sir Stephen Timms MP (Lab)		August 2021
Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia)		Martin Vickers MP (Con)		October 2020
APAC
Australia		Lord Botham (Crossbench)		August 2021
Taiwan		Lord Faulkner (Lab)		January 2016
Japan		Greg Clark MP (Con)		May 2022
Thailand, Myanmar, Brunei & Vietnam		Mark Garnier MP (Con)		October 2020 & for Vietnam January 2023
Singapore		Lord Sarfraz (Con)		January 2022
Republic of Korea		Sir John Whittingdale (Con)		May 2022
Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines & ASEAN		Richard Graham MP (Con)		Reappointed March 2023
Cambodia & Laos		Heather Wheeler MP (Con)		Reappointed March 2023
New Zealand		David Mundell MP (Con)		Reappointed March 2023
SOUTH ASIA
Bangladesh		Rushanara Ali MP (Lab)		March 2016
Sri Lanka		Lord Mervyn Davies of Abersoch (Crossbench)		October 2020
North America
Canada		Dame Maria Miller MP (Con)		May 2022
USA (specific focus on driving trade promotion with existing MOU states)		Sir Conor Burns MP (Con)		May 2023