Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when future tranches of Libyan service personnel planned to come to the UK to receive military training are scheduled to arrive; for how long such training programmes will last; and how many such people have received criminal convictions in Libya.

Further to what the Prime Minister has said, the Ministry of Defence is reviewing all aspects of the training programme at Bassingbourn including disciplinary issues. This will inform National Security Council decisions about future training programmes for the Libyan security forces. The UK remains committed to supporting the Libyan government as it works to establish stability and security across the country but has no immediate plans for further trainees to travel to the UK. The immediate priority must be agreement to a political settlement and the Prime Minister's Special Envoy to Libya, Jonathan Powell, is playing an active role in support of that process.