§ Mr. Andersonasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs to which countries Britain has provided training for police and special force personnel during 1985 (a) in Britain and (b) overseas; and what training is expected to be provided during 1986.
§ Mr. RaisonIn 1985 Britain provided police training for the following countries:
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(a) In Britain Indonesia Anguilla Italy Antigua Jamaica Australia Jordan Bahamas Kenya Bangladesh Kiribati Bahrain Lesotho Barbados Luxembourg Belgium Malaysia Belize Maldives Botswana Mauritius Brunei Montserrat British Virgin Islands Netherlands Cyprus Nepal Canada New Zealand Denmark Nigeria Ethiopia Oman Egypt Portugal France Qatar Fiji Saudi Arabia Gambia Singapore Guyana St. Helena Gibraltar St. Vincent Grenada Sri Lanka Hong Kong Swaziland India Tonga
Tanzania Grenada Uganda Indonesia United States of America Jamaica Vanuatu Kenya West Germany Kuwait Yemen Arab Republic Lesotho Zambia Malawi Zimbabwe Montserrat Oman (b) Overseas Pakistan Anguilla Swaziland Antigua and Barbuda St. Lucia Bangladesh St. Kitts and Nevis Bahamas St. Vincent Belize Tanzania British Virgin Islands Turks and Caicos Islands Barbados Uganda Cayman Islands Vanuatu Dominica Zambia Gambia The training was arranged by a number of Government Departments, principally the ODA and the Home Office. Some of it was paid for by the British Government, for example under the aid programme, and some by the countries themselves.
It is not our practice to provide details of training for special force personnel.
For 1986 it is too early to say what police training is expected to be provided but the pattern is unlikly to be very different from 1985.