PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Indonesia (27 January 2015)

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to his Indonesian counterpart on the use of the death penalty for EU citizens convicted of drug-related offences.

Asked by:
Mark Pritchard (Conservative)

UK policy is to oppose the death penalty in all circumstances. Ministers and senior officials regularly raise our opposition to the death penalty with the Indonesians. The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my right hon Friend the Member for Runnymede and Weybridge (Mr Hammond) visited Indonesia on 4 February and raised the issue with his counterpart then.

Answered by:
Lord Swire (Conservative)
5 February 2015