Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will provide an update on the use of his Department's resources to help efforts to locate abducted girls in northern Nigeria.

The Ministry of Defence is contributing to the international effort to find the missing school girls through the deployment of a Sentinel surveillance aircraft to help improve the intelligence picture, complementing other international intelligence and surveillance assets. UK military personnel have also been deployed to a multi-national intelligence fusion team based in Nigeria, whose role is to assist the Nigerians in their efforts to locate the girls.