Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure that journalists' trade unions internationally are (a) consulted on the UK's media freedom campaign, and (b) invited to participate in his Department's London conference on media freedom in July 2019.

​We are commited to and are in the process of consulting very widely with all relevant civil society bodies, including journalists' trade unions, on the design of our media freedom campaign and the July conference. We encourage all interested parties to get in touch with us.