Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues about seeking the release of Jagtar Singh Johal.

The Government has consistently raised Mr Johal's case with the Government of India, and is committed to doing what it can to assist him. The Foreign Secretary discussed Mr Johal's case with the Indian External Affairs Minister, Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, in Delhi on 29 October, and Lord (Tariq) Ahmad of Wimbledon, the Minister for South Asia, raised the case with the Indian High Commissioner to the UK on 13 December. The FCDO regularly coordinates across His Majesty's Government on different aspects of the UK-India bilateral relationship at official and Ministerial level.