Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he plans to hold further discussions with his Egyptian counterpart on (a) the release of and (b) access to consular support for Alaa Abd El-Fattah.

The UK Government makes regular representations about Mr Alaa Abd El Fattah's imprisonment, welfare, lack of consular access and will continue to do so until his case is resolved. The Prime Minister raised consular access with President Sisi on 7 November and the Foreign Secretary has raised the case with Egyptian Foreign Minister Shoukry on several occasions. The Minister for the Middle East and North Africa has also raised Mr El-Fattah's case on a number of occasions, most recently on 5 December with the Egyptian Ambassador.