Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many overseas requests for military training and other capacity building assistance to be provided in the UK were (a) approved and (b) declined by his Department in (i) 2015-16, (ii) 2016-17, (iii) 2017-18, (iv) 2018-19, (v) 2019-20 and (vi) 2020-21.

Requests for training and assistance may be made through a variety of means and there is no record of the number of such requests.

Information on the number of students attending training is set out in the MOD Annual Report & Accounts which can found at the link here: MOD Annual Report & Accounts

The number of training & capacity building activities delivered in the UK each year is set out in the table below. The information reflects the number of activities rather than the number of participants.