Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department has received representations from its international counterparts on (a) human rights and (b) press freedom in relation to Julian Assange.

The FCDO has only received one representation about Mr Assange from the group Reporters Without Borders which was addressed to the Home Secretary and has been passed to the Home Office. We have not received any representations from diplomatic counterparts.