Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government when the Prime Minister intends to acknowledge receipt of, and reply to, the letter sent on 18 February by Sir Iain Duncan Smith MP, Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws and other current and former members of Parliament who have been sanctioned by the government of China.

The Foreign Secretary has responded to the letter on behalf of the Prime Minister. Both the Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary have offered meetings with the signatories to the letter.