HC Deb 09 July 1982 vol 27 cc215-6W
Mr. Timothy Smith

asked the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will give an analysis by country of the 3,400 students from non-North Atlantic Treaty Organisation countries trained in the United Kingdom in 1981 referred to at paragraph 231 of the "Statement on the Defence Estimates 1982", Cmnd. 8529–1.

Mr. Wiggin

It is not our practice to reveal details of training which we provide for particular countries since such information is confidential between ourselves and the Government concerned. However, the non-NATO countries for which we provided training in 1981 were as follows:

Argentina Malawi
Australia Malaysia
Bahamas Mauritius
Bahrein Morocco
Bangladesh Nepal
Barbados New Zealand
Belize Nigeria
Bermuda Oman
Botswana Pakistan
Brazil Papua New Guinea
Brunei Peru
Burma Philippines
Chile Qatar
Cyprus Saudi Arabia
Ecuador Senegal
Egypt Sierra Leone
Fiji Singapore
Finland Spain*
Gambia Sri Lanka
Ghana St. Lucia
Guyana St. Vincent
Hong Kong Sudan
India Swaziland
Indonesia Sweden
Iran Switzerland
Iraq Syria
Ireland Tanzania
Israel Thailand
Jamaica Tonga
Japan Trinidad and Tobago
Jordan Uganda
Kenya United Arab Emirates
Korea (South) Venezuela
Kuwait Yemen
Lebanon Zaire
Lesotho Zambia
Libya Zimbabwe
* Became NATO member 1982.

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