Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many people attended the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative Conference; and how many and what proportion of these were from outside the UK.

The PSVI conference in November 2022 was attended by over 1,000 participants, which included over 50 countries and survivors from across the globe. The invitation list focused on a broad range of voices that included a wide range of governments, international organisations, civil society actors including survivor groups, experts from health, legal, military and academic fields, faith leaders and parliamentarians. We worked closely with the conference Survivor Advisory Group, to ensure that survivor perspectives were included throughout our planning. Over 50 percent of the delegates were participants from overseas.