Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government whether, in conducting Overseas, Security and Justice Assistance assessments for 2020-21 for programmes delivered under the Gulf Strategy Fund, they have sought an assurance from the government of Bahrain that the practise of the death penalty will no longer be carried out.

The UK's long-standing policy is to oppose the death penalty in all circumstances, in all countries, as a matter of principle, which we have made clear on a regular basis to the Government of Bahrain.