Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the likelihood that the government of Zimbabwe will comply with the obligations required for re-entry to the global financial system.

The International Monetary Fund Board meeting in May 2016 noted Zimbabwe’s good progress and encouraged further reform. Whilst this Government welcomes Zimbabwe’s progress, full re-engagement will only be possible once the Zimbabwean government has demonstrated a clear commitment to economic and political reform.

British Ministers and officials have met Chinamasa in recent months, including the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for International Development, my Hon Friend the Member for Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner (Nick Hurd), in May and the Minister for Africa, my Hon Friend the Member for Rochford and Southend East (James Duddridge), in July. In these meetings, Ministers emphasised to Chinamasa the importance of urgent economic and political reforms in Zimbabwe if there is to be further progress on re-engagement with the International Financial Institutions.