Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to his Department's Human Rights and Democracy report published on 8 July 2021, whether his Department conducted a review of 124 open torture cases in December 2020.

I can confirm that, as reported in our Human Rights and Democracy report for 2020, we reviewed a total of 124 open cases of torture and mistreatment in December 2020. This report is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/human-rights-and-democracy-report-2020(opens in a new tab).