Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of findings published by the Bahrain Institute of Rights and Democracy in its November 2022 report on the 2022 Parliamentary Elections in Bahrain; and if he will make a statement.

The Government has taken note of the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy report published on 16 November 2022. The UK draws on a number of sources of information when determining its approach in Bahrain and elsewhere.