Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will withdraw the diplomatic papers and immediately expel Sri Lanka’s Defence Attaché, Brigadier Priyanka Fernando, as a result of his conduct at the High Commission on 4 February 2018.
The Defence Attaché has returned to Colombo from London while the incident is thoroughly investigated by the Government of Sri Lanka. The British Government awaits the outcome of that investigation.