Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 24 November 2016 to Question 53303, what representations the Government has made to the Iranian government on the release of Kamal Foroughi and Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.

Ministers and officials have repeatedly made representations on all consular cases involving British nationals in Iran, including Mr Foroughi's and Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's, at all levels, with the Iranian Government. I raised these cases when I met the Iranian ambassador on 7 December and our ambassador in Iran will continue to raise these cases with the Iranian Government at every available opportunity in Tehran.