Source · Select Committees · Foreign Affairs Committee
Recommendation 29
29
Deferred
Paragraph: 93
Explore opportunities to develop people-to-people and defence links with Indo-Pacific Commonwealth countries.
Recommendation
The Government should explore and exploit opportunities for further developing of people-to-people and defence/security links with Commonwealth countries in the Indo-Pacific region, based on historical ties and shared values.
Government Response Summary
The government agrees but responds by detailing its commitment to investing in civil servants' skills to better understand China, which is unrelated to developing people-to-people and defence/security links with Commonwealth countries.
Paragraph Reference:
93
Government Response
Deferred
HM Government
Deferred
29. The Government agrees with the Committee. This Government has committed to investing in the skills and knowledge of civil servants, giving them the tools to better understand China in order to respond to the systemic challenge that China poses to the UK’s security, prosperity and values, but also to engage confidently where it is in our interests to do so.