Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 11 December 2017 to Question 117050, on armed conflict: schools, what assessment the Government has made of the implications of signing the Safe Schools Declaration; and whether it plans to sign that declaration.

The internal Foreign and Commonwealth Office review into our position towards the Safe Schools Declaration recently concluded. The Government is now considering its implications on a cross-departmental basis and is assessing the next steps.