Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many Overseas Security and Justice Assistance assessments logged with his Department in relation to overseas requests for capacity-building assistance have been (a) approved and (b) rejected by the recipient Department or agency in (i) 2015-16, (ii) 2016-17, (iii) 2017-18, (iv) 2018-19, (v) 2019-20 and (vi) 2020-21.

In accordance wit hthe publicly available guidance on Overseas Security and Justice Assitsance (OSJA), approval for activity underpinned b OSJA assessments is made at different levels of authority, in line with the level of risk.

An estimate of the numver of OSJAs completed each year is published in the Annual Human Rights Report.