Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will raise the case of Mr Tsege with the US administration before President Obama's visit to Ethiopia.

President Obama was not asked to raise the case of Andargachew Tsege with the Government of Ethiopia during his visit. The Secretary of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs, my Rt Hon friend, the Member for Runnymede and Weybridge (Philip Hammond MP) and the Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury and Minister for the Civil Service, my Rt Hon friend, the Member for Witney (David Cameron MP) have frequently raised the case directly and at the highest levels of the Ethiopian government, most recently on 8th and 17th August, and will continue to do so. Following an HMG request Mr Tsege has been transferred to a federal prison, and HMA Addis visited him there on 13 August.