Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if she will commission a full independent inquiry into her Department's handling of the cases of Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori.

This Government was committed to securing Mrs Zagari-Ratcliffe's and Mr Ashoori's release as soon as possible and that is what we have done. It was always entirely in Iran's gift to release them. The UK does not, and never will, accept our nationals being used as diplomatic leverage.

We stand ready to work with Parliament and have already submitted evidence to the Foreign Affairs Committee on its inquiry into HMG's approach to complex detention cases, with a focus on Iran cases, including Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's detention.