Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, for what reasons Iran does not appear in the Prisoner Packs collection on gov.uk; and whether his Department plans to publish information for British nationals on the legal and prisons systems in Iran.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office does have a prisoner pack for Iran which is made available to British national prisoners at the first consular visit. Our Ambassador to Iran regularly requests consular access to our dual-national prisoners, however Iran considers these individuals to be Iranians under Iranian law and has therefore not granted the British Government access. Although there is no international legal obligation to recognise dual nationality, we consider them to be British and will continue to request access to them. An online copy of the prisoner pack will be made available in due course.