Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what representations they intend to make to the government of China concerning UK citizens being further implicated in the prosecution and trial of Jimmy Lai.

The UK is gravely concerned that anyone is facing prosecution under the National Security Law, and particularly concerned at the politically motivated prosecution of British national Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong. On 17 December, the Foreign Secretary called on the Hong Kong authorities to end his prosecution and to release him. We continue to raise his case with the Chinese authorities; the Foreign Secretary last did so with Foreign Minister Wang Yi on 5 December. Diplomats from our Consulate-General are attending his court proceedings.