HC Deb 13 March 1995 vol 256 cc367-8W
Mrs. Clwyd

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his answer of 3 February,Official Report, column 88384, what mechanisms he has put in place to ensure that no officers of the Indonesian police force who have been involved in activities relating to human rights abuses in Indonesia and East Timor receive scholarship awards in the United Kingdom or other training financed by his Department; and how many of those proposed as trainees by the Indonesian police force have been excluded from (a) scholarship awards in the United Kingdom and (b) other forms of training financed by his Department on these grounds in each year since 1990.

Mr. Baldry

[holding answer 8 March 1995]: All applicants for training under the Indonesia police project provide biographical details, have their work performance assessed, and are interviewed before selection. No officers proposed for training have been rejected on grounds of involvement in human rights abuses.