Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, by which benchmarks the Government plan to assess the fairness and outcome of the Bahraini elections due to take place in 2018.

We follow closely the political situation in Bahrain and will do so during the upcoming elections. As with all elections in the region and beyond, we will stress to the Government of Bahrain the importance of fair, open and transparent elections.