Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department was consulted on the appointment of former UK ambassador to Bahrain, Iain Lindsay, as an advisor to Bahrain’s Economic Development Board.

I can confirm the appointment went through the departmental business appointment rules process, as is normal practice, and was approved. Standard procedure is that this will be published in the next quarterly transparency return.