Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what projects in which countries his Department promotes on reducing the number of judicial killings; and how much his Department has provided in funding to each such project.

This financial year (2015/16), the Foreign and Commonwealth Office is funding 14 projects to the value of £585,000 to reduce the number of judicial executions. This includes the following projects:

• Encouraging moves towards a moratorium in Botswana – £28,000.

• Encouraging the conversion of Guatemala’s moratorium into permanent abolition - £40,000

• Japan - £27,000

• USA - £52,000

• Projects in other countries - £188,000

• A regional approach to abolition in Africa - £55,000

• A regional approach to abolition in the Caribbean - £24,000

• Constitutional challenges to capital punishment systems - £80,000

• International lobbying by the All Party Parliamentary Group and Parliamentarians for Global Action - £91,000 (two projects)