Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with regional partners on Chinese naval exercises in the Pacific.

The UK maintains open channels of communication with partners in the region to promote a free and open Indo-Pacific. We are committed to international law, the primacy of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), and to freedom of navigation and overflight; and we are deepening our cooperation with our friends and partners in the Indo-Pacific.