Steve Barclay: DFID: Written Answers (2)

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Written Question

Nigeria

Tuesday 3rd February 2015

Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether the Government received or has had access to the report on crude oil theft in Nigeria, prepared by a US Administration delegation sent to Nigeria by President Obama in December 2013.

Answered by Desmond Swayne

The US administration delegation met with British Government Officials in Abuja during their visit to Nigeria and we are aware of their report and its findings.

Written Question

Nigeria

Tuesday 3rd February 2015

Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment the Government has made of financial links between crude oil theft in Nigeria and (a) Boko Haram and (b) wider instability in that country.

Answered by Desmond Swayne

We have received no evidence of a financial link between oil theft and Boko Haram, although our assessment is that there is a financial link between oil theft, organised crime and insecurity within the Niger Delta region.