Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if his Department will place a copy of its assessment of whether Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is a hostage under the terms of the 1982 Taking of Hostages Act in the Library.

We do not accept our nationals being used as diplomatic leverage and have repeatedly made this clear to Iran. By exercising diplomatic protection in Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's case, we formally recognised that her treatment fails to meet Iran's obligations under international law, that it has been unlawful and intolerable, and raised it to a State-to-State issue.