Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answers by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 24 September (HL8054) and by the Minister of State for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office on 22 September (HC90154), whether they received any assurances that the executions of Mohammed Ramadhan and Husain Moosa would not be carried out imminently.

We have raised both cases at senior levels with the Government of Bahrain. I raised the cases with the Bahraini Ambassador to the UK on 14 July. During his recent visit to Bahrain, the Minister for the Middle East and North Africa reiterated the UK's opposition to the use of the death penalty, in all circumstances.