Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Anelay of St Johns on 13 January (HL3931), what assessment they have made of progress in the Israeli investigation of the death of Palestinian Cabinet Minister Ziad Abu Ein.

The Israeli investigation into the allegations of wrong-doings by Israeli Defence Force soldiers that led to Palestinian Minister Ziad Abu Ein's death is still pending.

A team comprised of Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian forensic scientists investigated the death of Minister Abu Ein. They differed on the causes of his death, although they agreed that he died from a blockage of the coronary artery.