Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to encourage the abolition of the death penalty in Indonesia.

The British Government is opposed to the death penalty in all circumstances as a matter of principle. We raise our concerns at the highest level and will continue to do so. My Rt Hon. Friend the former Prime Minister (Mr David Cameron), reiterated our position to Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo in April and I expressed my concerns following the executions which took place in July.