Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department has requested from the Iranian Government that representatives of the International Bar Association be allowed to attend (a) any future hearings of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in the Revolutionary Court and (b) hearings in the Revolutionary Court of any other British citizen.

We formally requested, by Note Verbale, the UK Government's attendance at Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's hearing on 2 November in order to support her but we were not permitted access. So far, we have, regrettably, never been granted access to Iranian judicial hearings for any of our dual British national detainees, but we continue firmly to lobby for access to them. We have not yet requested the International Bar Association to monitor any future hearings.