Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 22 May 2018 to Question 143645 on Noura Hussein, whether the representations his Department has made to the government of Sudan included the possibility of a Presidential pardon.

Our Ambassador to Sudan raised our deep concern about Noura Hussein's case at a senior level with the Government of Sudan on 17 June, and made clear our strong opposition to the use of the death penalty, child marriage and forced marriage. I also conveyed our concerns in a call to the Sudanese Foreign Minister on 12 June, stressing the importance of a fair appeal to the sentence imposed by the courts. We will continue to raise the case at a high level with the Government of Sudan.