Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what consular visits have been made to Andargachew Tsege in prison in Ethiopia; and what reports he has received on the state of Mr Tsege's health.

The UK Ambassador to Ethiopia has visited Mr Tsege on two occasions since his detention. The first was on 11 August, and the second on 19 December. Our Ambassador did not report any concerns about Mr Tsege’s health on either of these visits. As a detained British national, Mr Tsege’s welfare remains of the utmost importance to the FCO and we continue to press the Ethiopian authorities for regular consular access as enshrined in the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations.