Priti Patel – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Development

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Priti Patel on 2014-06-12.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what programmes her Department operates to improve the criminal justice system of countries in receipt of overseas development assistance.

Lynne Featherstone

DFID currently funds security and justice work (i) through 26 bilateral programmes in 13 developing countries, (ii) through the tri-departmental Conflict Prevention Pool and (iii) through multilateral agencies and non-governmental organisations. Some of these programmes include work on criminal justice system reform.