PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Tunisia: Politics and Government (2 July 2015)

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will hold discussions with his French counterpart on improving collaboration between the French and UK governments in providing governance and capability training for Tunisian national and regional government bodies.

Asked by:
Mark Pritchard (Conservative)

Since the 26 June terrorist attack in Sousse, The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my right hon. Friend the Member for Runnymede and Weybridge (Mr Hammond) and The Secretary of State for the Home Department, my right hon. Friend the Member for Maidenhead (Mrs May) have spoken to their French counterparts and discussed areas in which we can work more closely together to support Tunisia. The Home Secretary and I also visited Tunisa with the French (and German) Interior Ministers on 29 June both to pay our respects to the victims of the Sousse attack and for discussions with the Tunisian Authorities.
Answered by:
Mr Tobias Ellwood (Conservative)
8 July 2015