Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with British Tamil organisations on the conduct of Sri Lanka’s Defence Attaché, Brigadier Priyanka Fernando, at the High Commission on 4 February 2018.

​FCO officials have met with a number of diaspora organisations to discuss matters including the incident on 4 February and the Defence Attache was subsequently ordered to return to Colombo for consultations. We regularly meet diaspora groups in this way to better understand their interests and concerns.