Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to the Sudan economic factsheet published by his Department on 26 April 2018, what estimate he has made of the level of military spending in Sudan.

There is no reliable data as the Government of Sudan does not release information on its Defence expenditure. In 2009, the World Bank estimated that more than 60 percent of Sudan's national budget was spent on Security and Defence. In the absence of reliable information from the Government of Sudan, our assumption is that such spending constitutes between 60 and 70 percent of Sudan's national budget.