Iran: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

Baroness Butler-Sloss Excerpts

Thursday 2nd February 2017 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Anelay of St Johns]

As so often, I agree with the noble Lord.

[Baroness Butler-Sloss (CB)]

My Lords, the child is, I understand, entirely a British subject. What are the Government doing about a British subject being held in Iran?

[Baroness Anelay of St Johns]

My Lords, we—I at this Dispatch Box and also colleagues in another place—have made it clear that we stand ready to facilitate the return of Gabriella to this country. She is indeed solely a British citizen, and we stand ready to assist if the family asks us to do so.