141017 - Bangladesh: Elections (Answered)

Mrs Anne Main
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the Government will have a role in monitoring the forthcoming general election in Bangladesh.

Mark Field

​The UK is supporting election monitoring in Bangladesh by funding short and long term domestic observers through a Department for International Development programme. We have not to date received any request from the Bangladesh Government to deploy our own election monitors. We shall continue to engage with the Government of Bangladesh, the Election Commission and political parties on the need for robust democratic mechanisms and the proper application of election law during the general election which we understand will take place at the end of 2018.