Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent steps his Department has taken to support peace and stability in Libya.

The UK is committed to supporting the UN-facilitated, Libyan-led and owned political process to secure peace, stability and prosperity in Libya. This includes efforts to unblock the executive impasse and agree a pathway to elections. In October, the UK-drafted UN Security Council resolution secured a substantive 12-month renewal of the UN Support Mission in Libya, giving new Special Representative to the Secretary-General Abdoulaye Bathily the support needed to reinvigorate the political process. In October, we hosted representatives from Egypt, France, Germany, Italy, Turkey, and the US to discuss supporting UN efforts to get Libya back on a credible electoral footing.