Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of recent trends in the number of Chinese Communist Party officials holding senior positions in United Nations agencies and other international organisations; and whether his Department has made an assessment of potential trends in the number of Chinese Communist Party officials holding senior positions in those agencies and international organisation in the next five years.

We will continue to monitor trends of representation in the UN and wider international system.