Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the comment by a Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) spokesperson to the Middle East Eye on 22 June which said that “a number of human rights cases were raised with senior members of the Bahrain Government by Lord Ahmad during his visit in February”, why the FCDO said that it does not hold any information about cases raised during Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon's February visit to Bahrain in response to Freedom of Information request FOI2022/13659.

I [Lord (Tariq) Ahmad of Wimbledon] discussed a number of human rights cases with senior members of the Bahrain Government and the oversight bodies during my visit in February, including the then Justice Minister, HE Shaikh Khalid bin Ali Al Khalifa, and Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani. More recently, I again raised human rights issues during a meeting with the Foreign Minister in London.