Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 12 February 2015 to Question 223612, whether he plans to meet his counterpart in the Philippines to discuss climate change.

I have no immediate plans to meet my Philippines counterpart. However, there is ongoing dialogue with the Philippines on this issue, including regular contact through our Embassy in Manila, and with the Philippine delegates to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Climate change has also been discussed during senior British visits to the Philippines - for example when Sir Simon Fraser, the Permanent Under Secretary to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, visited in December 2014, and when Sir David King, Special Representative on Climate Change, visited in February 2014.