Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent reports he has received on the security situation in Haiti.

The UK continues to monitor the deteriorating security situation in Haiti and we encourage international partners to work together to assist in Haitian-led efforts to tackle the underlying causes of gang violence. Through the British Embassy in Port-au-Prince, we remain in regular contact and coordination with the Haitian government and those agencies supporting the security sector. FCDO officials are actively engaged in the UN Security Council on this issue and were briefed by UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) for Haiti on 24 January ahead of a Security Council discussion.