Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they have made to the government of Germany to encourage it to extradite to Belgium the Iranian diplomat arrested in connection with the planned terrorist bomb attack on the meeting of the National Council of Resistance of Iran in Paris on 30 June.

We have not received or made specific representations from other governments on the arrest of an Iranian diplomat in Germany but we are concerned by reports that an Iranian diplomat may have been involved with a plot against a conference in Paris. We work closely with our European partners on security and counter-terrorism issues.