Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how much funding support they give to the British American Security Information Council; and for what purposes.

​The Foreign and Commonwealth Office allocated £49,874.00 to the British American Security Information Council (BASIC) in Financial Year 2018 to 2019. This supported a project on 'Foregrounding Nuclear Responsibilities', which aims to foster international understanding and constructive dialogue among moderate nuclear and non nuclear-armed states on the responsibilities of nuclear weapons possession and disarmament. We also provided £7,281.44 to BASIC in Financial Year 2017 to 2018 for a research paper and two private roundtables, in order to inform the international conversation on Nuclear Security Assurances and support the rules-based international system and institutions.