Question to the Home Office:

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

A central record is not kept of the details of Overseas Security and Justice Assistance (OSJA) assessments completed, or the consideration of requests for capacity building or case-specific assistance.

However, the overall number of OSJA assessments completed each year has been recorded for inclusion in the totals published in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) Annual Human Rights and Democracy Report since 2017-18.

The Home Office completed 319 OSJA assessments in 2017-18, 681 in 2018-19, 311 in 2019-20, and 255 in 2020-21.