Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of Jamaican police and soldiers being placed in Haiti to tackle gang violence in that country.

We note and welcome the reporting last week of comments by Jamaican PM Holness that he would be willing to contribute to the Haitian Government's request to the UN Secretary General for a multinational security assistance deployment to Haiti to support a return to a reasonable level of stability and peace. Such an offer would need to be made and discussed at the UN before any decisions could be taken.