Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to assist the Nigerian government recover children kidnapped by Boko Haram.

The UK is resolute in its support for Nigeria in the fight against Boko Haram and the search for all those who have been abducted.

We are providing a substantial package of intelligence, military and development support to Nigeria, including training and advice for Nigerian armed forces and £5 million to support the Multinational Joint Task Force, a regional force against Boko Haram.

To date over 22,500 Nigerian military personnel have received UK training; of those, at least 6,500 have been deployed on counter-insurgency operations in north east Nigeria.

With France and the US, we also support a Nigerian intelligence analysis and planning cell focused on the North East and based in Abuja.