Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to Answer of 4 July to Question 26842, whether he has representations to his Israeli counterpart on Israel's obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child that depriving children of their liberty should be used only as a measure of last resort and for the shortest appropriate period of time.

We are aware of Israel's use of administrative detention which, according to international law, should be used only when security makes this absolutely necessary. We call on the Israeli authorities to either charge or release detainees. We are committed to working with Israel to secure improvements to the practices surrounding children in detention.