Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of claims in the Politics Home article, ‘Bahrain-Linked “Think Tank” Accused Of Trying To "Silence" MPs and Peers Raising Human Rights Abuses’, published on 18 January, that the Gulf Centre of Strategic Studies has made undue attempts to dissuade Members of Parliament from raising concerns over Bahrain’s human rights record; and what meetings, if any, they have had with representatives from the Centre.

We draw on a wide variety of sources in making an assessment of Bahrain's human rights record. Our annual Human Rights Report, published last in July 2021 contains our most recent assessment - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/human-rights-and-democracy-report-2020. We have no record of meeting the Gulf Centre of Strategic Studies.