Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make it his policy to call for the release of Jagtar Singh Johal.

The UK Government is committed to seeing Mr Johal's case resolved as soon as possible. We have raised our concerns about Mr Johal's case, including his allegations of torture, with the Government of India on over 110 occasions and will continue to do so. The Prime Minister raised Mr Johal's case in talks with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 9 September. Mr Johal's case was raised most recently on 13 November by Lord (Tariq) Ahmad of Wimbledon, Minister of State for South Asia, with the Indian External Affairs Minister, Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar. Consular staff visit Mr Johal regularly to check on his welfare and did so most recently on 26 October.