Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to her Department’s press release entitled UK Explanation of Vote on the Declaration of the trafficking of enslaved Africans and racialised chattel enslavement of Africans as the gravest crime, published on 25 March 2026, what discussions took place with international partners prior to the vote about the UK’s position on the resolution.

I refer the Hon Member to the press release mentioned in his questions.