Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how often the official Envoy of the Quartet on the Middle East reports back to the Quartet constituent parties; what form that reporting takes; if he will publish a URL link to published outputs of the Envoy's work; how many visits the Envoy has made to the Middle East since his appointment in June 2007; how many of these visits were to (a) Israel, (b) the West Bank Palestinian Territories and (c) the Gaza Palestinian Territories; and what the annual cost to the UK has been of supporting the office and travel of the Envoy.

We do not collect information on how often the official Envoy of the Quartet reports back to the United Nations, the United States and Russia. The Envoy regularly reports back on his work to the European Union and its Member States and we remain in close contact with him. This is in the form of meetings with Ministers and senior officials and the sharing of reports. The Office of the Quartet Representative's website, which contains information about the published outputs of the Envoy's work, is http://www.quartetrep.org/

We do not collect information on how many visits of the Special Envoy to the Middle East Quartet has made. This type of information is not held centrally.

The Government does not provide any financial contribution towards maintaining the Office of the Quartet Representative (OQR) or towards the Envoys travel. However, the Department for International Development (DFID) currently seconds two civil servants to the Office of the Quartet Representative in Jerusalem, the cost of which for 2013/14 was £257,885.