Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 4 September 2023 to Question 194685, what response he received to his summonses of Iran’s Chargé d'Affaires.

In response to the Foreign Secretary's summonses of the Iranian Chargé d'Affaires on 8 December 2022 and 9 January 2023, in each case the Chargé d'Affaires attended the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office where our opposition to the death penalty in all circumstances was made clear. The UK remains opposed to the death penalty in all circumstances in Iran.