Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with his counterparts in other EU and NATO member states on the detention of Andargachew Tsige.

I remain deeply concerned by the continued detention of British national Andargachew Tsege in Ethiopia and about his welfare. The Secretary of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs, my Rt Hon friend, the Member for Runnymede and Weybridge (Philip Hammond MP) has not raised the case of Mr Andargachew with NATO partners. There is regular Article 8 dialogue between the EU and Ethiopia and Mr Andargachew’s case has been raised in the context of these dialogues, most recently on 28 April 2015.