Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the statement of the Canadian Prime Minister in that country’s House of Commons on 18 September 2023 on Mr Hardeep Singh Nijjar.

The Prime Minster spoke to Prime Minister Trudeau on 6 October about the serious allegations raised in the Canadian Parliament and the Foreign Secretary is in regular contact with his Canadian counterpart. We have raised this matter with the Government of India and we encourage them to cooperate fully with the investigation. It would be inappropriate to comment further during the ongoing investigation by the Canadian authorities.