Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of President Biden's proposals for expanding the United Nations Security Council.

The UK Government has a long-held position of supporting reform of the Security Council, to make it more representative of the world today. We support the expansion of the Security Council in both the permanent and non-permanent categories. This includes permanent African representation on the Council as well as the creation of new permanent seats for India, Germany, Japan and Brazil. We also support an expansion of the non-permanent category of membership. The Foreign Secretary reiterated this position as one of his key priorities during his speech on multilateral reform at Chatham House in June 2023.