Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many meetings (a) Ministers and (b) officials of his Department have had with Saudi government officials in the last six months.

Foreign Office Ministers, our Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and officials have frequent meetings with the Saudi Government and officials to discuss a full range of regional and bilateral issues. The Foreign Secretary, my Rt Hon. Friend the Member for Uxbridge and South Ruislip (Mr Johnson), visited Saudi Arabia on 11 December.