Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has considered further action against relevant Chinese officials in the UK following the incident at the Chinese consulate in Manchester.

The behaviour of Consulate-General officials during the incident in Manchester on 16 October, as it appears from the footage, was completely unacceptable. We await details of the police investigation. In the meantime HMG has delivered clear messages to the Chinese Embassy in London and to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing about the depth of our concern. If the police determine there are grounds to charge any officials, we would expect China to waive immunity for those officials.