Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with his counterpart in Ethiopia on the commitment of the Prime Minister of that country to hold credible national elections; and what information he holds on the timetable for such elections to be held.

National elections are scheduled to be held in Ethiopia in 2020. The UK continues to press for the opening up of political space in Ethiopia, and to work to support these elections being genuinely competitive.