Question for Department for Education
UIN 196279, tabled on 1 September 2023
Question
Elizabeth Truss
Conservative
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 14 June 2023 to Question 187963 on Department for Education: Taiwan, if she will identify which minister represented her Department for each meeting it held with representatives of the Taiwan Government in 2022; and if she will identify the (i) job title and (ii) grade of the most senior official who represented her Department when a minister was not present for each meeting it held with representatives of the Taiwan Government in 2022.
Answer
Nick Gibb
Conservative
Answered on
26 September 2023
No Department for Education Ministers met with representatives of the Taiwan administration in 2022.
The Department had regular official level meetings with representatives of the Taiwanese administration during this period, both in the UK and through the British Office in Taipei, in line with our longstanding policy on Taiwan.