Written Question·Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office·UIN 115780

Jimmy Lai

Tabled: 25 February 2026
Answered: 3 March 2026
Named Day

Question

Sir Julian Lewis

ConservativeNew Forest East

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the representations made by the Government to the Chinese authorities (a) before and (b) since the imposition of t

Answer

Seema Malhotra
I refer the Rt Hon Member to the responses given in the Urgent Question debate on 9 February. We will continue to update the House on Jimmy Lai's case.