Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the Kurdistan Regional Government or its representatives in the UK on the situation in that region.

The Prime Minister, my Rt. Hon. Friend the Member for Witney (Mr Cameron) and the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, and my Rt. Hon. Friend the Member for Runnymede and Weybridge (Mr Hammond), have both spoken to Kurdistan Region President Barzani. The Secretary of State for International Development, my Rt. Hon. Friend the Member for Putney (Justine Greening), and I visited Erbil on 27 August and met with President Barzani, Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Deputy Prime Minister Talabani, and other Ministers. I have also met the KRG’s representative in the UK and officials are in regular contact with the KRG offices in both the UK and Iraq.