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Jagtar Singh Johal

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Question for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

UIN 114794, tabled on 20 December 2022

Question

Preet Kaur Gill
Labour
Birmingham, Edgbaston
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues about seeking the release of Jagtar Singh Johal.

Answer

Anne-Marie Trevelyan
Conservative
Berwick-upon-Tweed
Commons

Answered on

10 January 2023

The Government has consistently raised Mr Johal's case with the Government of India, and is committed to doing what it can to assist him. The Foreign Secretary discussed Mr Johal's case with the Indian External Affairs Minister, Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, in Delhi on 29 October, and Lord (Tariq) Ahmad of Wimbledon, the Minister for South Asia, raised the case with the Indian High Commissioner to the UK on 13 December. The FCDO regularly coordinates across His Majesty's Government on different aspects of the UK-India bilateral relationship at official and Ministerial level.

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