Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, on how many occasions (a) Ministers or (b) officials in his Department have held discussions with their counterparts in the Department for Work and Pensions on the position of overseas pensioners without reciprocal social security arrangements in the last five years.

FCDO Ministers and officials routinely engage with their counterparts in other Government Departments on matters of mutual interest and concern.