Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the letter from Human Rights Watch and the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) dated 14 February 2022, which states that the Answer of 3 February 2022 to Question 114769 is inaccurate and calls for the Government to correct the record, if the Government will (a) correct the record as requested by Human Rights Watch and BIRD and (b) issue a response to that letter.

A reply to the Human Rights Watch/BIRD letter of 14 February 2022 will be issued shortly.