Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with the Nigerian authorities about access for detainees to lawyers and to their families whilst they are in detention.

The UK remains committed to supporting efforts to help enhance the effectiveness and accountability of the Nigerian police and judicial system. We regularly raise human rights concerns, including access to lawyers, with senior members of the Nigerian government at State and Federal level and will continue to do so. We raised specific concerns on the treatment of detainees at military-run detention centres at the UN Universal Periodic Review of Nigeria in Geneva on 22 October 2013.