Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of whether the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action between the governments of China, the European Union, France, Germany, Iran, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States should be renegotiated in the light of (1) mission development, (2) sunset clauses, and (3) breaches by Iran of limits on enriched uranium stocks.

The JCPoA is currently the only framework for constraining and verifying Iran's nuclear programme. In the absence of something better, we will continue to support it. I welcome President Biden's commitment that if Iran returns to compliance with the deal the US would re-enter the agreement, seeking to both strengthen and extend it. This is an important opportunity to restart engagement between Iran and the US, and to realise the objectives of the JCPoA.