Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the consequences for his policies of the imprisonment of Hassan al-Maliki and Salman al-Oudah.

Saudi Arabia remains a Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office human rights priority country and we are following these cases. We raise a range of human rights issues, including the use of the death penalty and individual detentions, with the Saudi authorities at all levels, including most recently during Lord Ahmad's visit to the Kingdom on 15 February.