To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to Answer of 29 March to Question 146727, how many meetings (a) he or (b) Ministers have attended since April 2019 in which the incarceration of Julian Assange was discussed.
Answered on
19 April 2022
The Secretary of State for Justice has not attended any meetings since April 2019 in which the incarceration of Julian Assange was discussed, nor have any current Ministry of Justice Ministers.
The previous Minister for Prisons and Probation, the Rt Hon Lucy Frazer QC MP, met departmental officials once to discuss this issue.
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