Caroline Lucas – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Caroline Lucas on 2016-02-03.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Overseas Security and Justice Assessment assessments carried out by the Government in relation to UK aid and security assistance programmes to Saudi Arabia in the last two years have been reviewed since March 2015; and on what dates each of those reviews took place.

Penny Mordaunt

In the past two years the MOD has conducted three Overseas Security and Justice Assessments in relation to security assistance programmes with Saudi Arabia. Such engagement encompasses Defence Exercises, Defence Training in Saudi Arabia, Defence training in the UK (or a third party country), High Level International Engagement, UK personnel conducting long-term capacity building (Loan Service Teams/British Military Mission) and Working level International Engagement.