Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has had discussions with his counterpart in Singapore on preventing capital punishments in that country.

It is the longstanding policy of the UK Government to oppose the death penalty in all circumstances. We continue to urge all countries that retain the death penalty to impose a moratorium on executions as the first step towards the abolition of the death penalty. As such, the Government raises our opposition to the death penalty with the Government of Singapore on a regular basis.