Speeches

Michael Ellis – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Michael Ellis on 2014-04-28.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will place in the Library an inventory of the property of the Government destroyed by rioters in HM Embassy in Tehran in 2011.

Hugh Robertson

The British Embassy in Tehran was overrun by a mob on 29 November 2011, resulting in the withdrawal of all Embassy staff. I am placing a list of the property damaged in the Library of the House.