Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what representations they are making at European and global level on behalf of the former President of Egypt Mohamed Morsi.

The British Government remains concerned about the sentencing to death of former President Morsi. On 17 May the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my hon. Friend the Member for Bournemouth East (Mr Ellwood), raised the case with the Egyptian Ambassador in London.

We have emphasised that it is vital that any judicial decisions are objective, transparent, and in accordance with the law. There are further stages in the legal process and we will continue to raise this issue with the Egyptian government.