Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has made of an assessment of trends in the level of food prices in Morocco.

As is standard practice, the British Embassy in Morocco tracks local economic movements, including food price inflation. The UK and Morocco discuss trade in foodstuffs within the context of the UK-Morocco Association Agreement. The UK Government is aware, including through these discussions, of the impact of poor weather earlier this year on the harvest, leading to the price of some goods increasing. DEFRA Minister the Rt Hon. the Lord Benyon recently visited Morocco and signed a Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen collaboration in the agricultural sector, which we hope will support better mitigation of climate risks.