Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make it his policy to include Bahrain as a country of concern in his Department's next Human Rights and Democracy Report.

Bahrain has been designated as a country case study in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's 2014 Human Rights and Democracy Report, as such we will continue to monitor the human rights situation in Bahrain and issue a biannual assessment. There has been progress with the reforms put in place in Bahrain and the UK will continue to assist the Court of Bahrain in areas such judicial reforms. We assess every country, where we have human rights concerns, before the end of each calendar year for possible inclusion as a country of concern in the annual human rights report. The next global assessment will therefore take place shortly before the end of 2015.