Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the detention of Morad Tahbaz in Iran; and what steps they will take to facilitate his release.

The Iranian authorities committed to allowing Morad to return home to his family in Tehran on furlough, and we expect them to fulfil that commitment. We continue to work with the US to secure Morad's permanent release and departure from Iran and have been clear that he must be allowed to return to his family's home in Tehran immediately. We remain in close contact with Morad's family.

We urge the Government of Iran to stop its practice of unfairly detaining British and other foreign nationals, and we will continue to work with likeminded partners to that end. It remains - and always has been - within Iran's gift to release any British national who has been unfairly detained.