Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make representations to his Vietnamese counterpart to press for the immediate release of (a) Hoang Thi Minh Hong and (b) other detained climate activists; and if he will make a statement.

We regularly raise the treatment of activists and human rights defenders in Vietnam. The Minister for Indo-Pacific raised the case of Hoang Thi Minh Hong with her counterpart Vice Foreign Minister Le Thi Thu Hang at the UK-Vietnam Strategic Dialogue meeting in London on 12 June. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has also made a public statement expressing concern at the arrest. We continue to monitor the situation in Vietnam and make the case for working in partnership with NGOs.