Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the Human Rights and Democracy Report published on 16 July 2020, on how many occasions did the Government decide that UK assistance should not be provided on the basis of human rights risk in Overseas Security and Justice Assistance cases during 2019-20.

HMG only maintains records of Overseas Security & Justice Assistance (OSJA) assessments relating to completed and ongoing security & justice work overseas. We are therefore unable to provide details of the number of times UK assistance was not provided due to human rights risks.