Written Question·Scotland Office·UIN 69382

Foreign Relations: Scotland

Tabled: 21 July 2025
Answered: 2 September 2025

Question

Andrew Bowie

ConservativeWest Aberdeenshire and Kincardine

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, whether he has had discussions with the Scottish Government on their role in international affairs.

Answer

Ian Murray
International relations is, and will remain, a matter reserved solely to the UK Government. The terms of the International Relations Concordat of 2013 – agreed between the UK Government and Ministers of the devolved Governments (DGs) – reaffirm that the D...

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