Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's latest internal guidance for officials on the drafting of answers to parliamentary questions.

The Office of the Leader of the House provides guidance to all Departments on the practice of answering Parliamentary Questions.

The full Guide is available on the gov.uk website at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guide-to-parliamentary-work. A copy of the guidance has already been placed in the Library. The Office of the Leader of the House of Commons intends to review the Guide to Parliamentary Work in the coming months.