Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many times the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative UK team of experts has been deployed in each year since 2012.

Since 2012, the Team of Experts have been deployed 94 times to build capacity of governments, the UN, and non-governmental organisations. Deployments have included Mali, Bangladesh, Zimbabwe and Uganda. The number of deployments per year were as follows: two deployments in 2012; 20 deployments in 2013, including to Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina; 27 deployments in 2014, including to Turkey, Mali, and Kenya; 16 deployments in 2015; six deployments in 2016; six deployments in 2017, 11 deployments in 2018 including to Dhaka, Mali and Zimbabwe; six deployments in 2019; and one deployment in 2020.