Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he has taken to ensure refugees and internally displaced people take part in the peace process in South Sudan.

The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)-led peace process, the High Level Revitalisation Forum (HLRF), includes civil society, political and religious groups currently excluded from South Sudan. The British Government has repeatedly underlined the need for a broad range of actors that represent the whole of South Sudanese society to be represented in the HLRF including civil society and faith-based organisations.

Refugees and internally displaced people are not represented by a specific group, but permeate across a large number of included groups in the peace process; such as: civil society, political and religious groups. The UK Special Representative continues to engage with a wide range of civil society groups, including those which refugees and internally displaced people are part of, to support their inclusion in the process.