Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with his US counterpart on the US State Department’s latest assessment of the involvement of Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman in ordering the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.

Together with our international partners, including the US, we are following the ongoing Saudi and Turkish investigations closely. We continue to stress that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia must put in place measures to ensure that this can never happen again. We need to see proper accountability for those responsible but we must not pre-empt the outcome of the investigation.