Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the (a) risks and (b) impacts of increasing political violence in Kenya; and what steps he is taking to support peace in that country.

The UK Government and the British High Commission in Nairobi are closely following the situation after post-election political violence in Kenya. We have issued a joint statement with other diplomatic missions in Nairobi calling for calm and restraint and for the security forces to remain neutral and provide protection for all Kenyans. We welcome the bipartisan parliamentary process to resolve key issues. We are encouraging Kenya's politicians to invest in this process, to support their democratic institutions and processes and so prevent further public demonstrations and violence.