Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many UK citizens are being held in detention without justification by the Government of Iran; and what representations they have made to the Government of Iran on their behalf.

In recent years, the Government has worked on a number of cases of British nationals and British-Iranian dual nationals detained in Iran, where those detainees or their families have requested consular support. The UK has not historically published either the number of live cases, or the details of each one.