Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 19 September 2017 to Question 9881, on North Korea: sanctions, if he will list the (a) specific outreach activities undertaken by the 1718 DPRK Sanctions Committee with direct financial support from the Government and (b) total amounts of funding provided by the Government for each such activity.

The UK has funded a series of regional outreach activities to raise awareness and strengthen the effective implementation of UN Security Council resolutions related to the DPRK. The projects brought the UN Panel of Experts together with governments from each region and were delivered by the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Events were held in Dubai and Hong Kong (in 2013, for a total amount of £90,005), Addis Ababa (2014, £77,707), and Johannesburg (2016, £58,422). The UK also supported a project focused on South East Asia, though it was only partially delivered (2015, £12,569).