Foreign and Commonwealth Office written question – answered at on 20 April 2017.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with (a) his Chinese counterpart and (b) the Hong Kong Government on the outcome of the Hong Kong elections for Chief Executive.
The Government looks forward to working with the Chief Executive-elect Carrie Lam when she takes office in July. The British Consul General in Hong Kong issued a statement congratulating Chief Executive-elect Carrie Lam on her victory and I have written to her. The Prime Minister, my Rt Hon. Friend the Member for Maidenhead (Theresa May) and the Foreign Secretary, my Rt Hon. Friend the Member for Uxbridge and South Ruislip (Boris Johnson) have also written to the Chief Executive-elect Carrie Lam to congratulate her.
I have had no recent discussions with the Chinese or Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Governments on the outcome of the Chief Executive elections which took place on 26 March.
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