Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what diplomatic engagements there have been between the UK and Myanmar over the parliamentary summer recess; and if he will make a statement.

The Minister of State for International Development, my, friend the Rt Hon Alistair Burt MP visited Burma in July 2017, and I intend to make a visit during the next few weeks, during the conference recess. The Government has recently put its position on record in the House of Commons, responding to an urgent question on the situation in Rakhine State on 5 September.