Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the report by Human Rights Watch, World Report 2022, published on 13 January 2022, what assessment the Government has made of the implications of its policies of the findings in that report in respect of Bahrain; and what the Government’s assessment is of the independence of Bahrain’s oversight bodies.

The FCDO uses a wide range of sources of information to reach its assessments, the latest of which can be found - including on the oversight bodies - in its annual Human Rights Report, published last in July 2021.