PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Pakistan: Capital Punishment (9 June 2015)

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 12 February 2015 to Question 223790 on Pakistan, what information his Department holds on the reasons Pakistan's Interior Minister reported in March 2014 that there were six British nationals facing the death penalty for drug offences in that country.

Asked by:
Kerry McCarthy (Labour)

We cannot comment on the reasons behind the Pakistan Interior Minister’s response to last year’s Question. As a co-signatory of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations 1963, the Pakistani authorities are under a duty to inform, without delay, the British Consulate of the arrest or detention of a British national if he/she so requests. We are currently aware of 2 British nationals who have been sentenced to death in Pakistan. We are not aware of any British nationals currently on death row for drug-related offences in Pakistan.

Answered by:
Mr Tobias Ellwood (Conservative)
15 June 2015