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date	24/10/2017
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of whether Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's rights under (a) Iranian and (b) international human rights laws have been violated; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	109241
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2017 answer text <p>​Iran does not view Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe as a British national, and has no legal obligation to do so. On this basis Iran has not granted us access to the charges or evidence in Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's case, nor provided us with consular access. Under our consular role we do not provide legal advice to British nationals and cannot interfere in the internal affairs of another country and have therefore not made an assessment of Iranian law. Based on publicly available information, we have raised our concerns with the Iranian authorities, but we are not in a position to determine whether Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's rights have been violated under international human rights laws. We continue to press the Iranian authorities to provide Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe with access to all the legal paperwork relevant to her case. We request consular access at every opportunity, not least so we can be assured of Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's welfare. We will continue to assert that she is a British national, to press for consular access, and to support the family to the extent that we can.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 30/10/2017 15:20:31 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

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date	24/10/2017
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he is taking to communicate with hon. Members and Members of the House of Lords plans for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2018.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	109465
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2017 answer text <p>​We recognise the extraordinary contribution Parliamentarians can make to the Commonwealth's rejuvenation, both by sharing their wealth of expertise and knowledge and by contributing to activities that celebrate the Commonwealth across the UK in the run up to and during the week of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.</p><p>Lord Ahmad, Minister for the Commonwealth, is in regular contact with parliamentarians from both Houses, engaging with the All Party Parliamentary Group, through Commonwealth Organisations such as the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association UK and by meeting many Parliamentarians individually to set out our plans. Lord Ahmad plans to write to Parliamentarians in both Houses shortly to outline further details regarding the summit.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 30/10/2017 16:23:17 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell