§ Mrs. ClwydTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list, for each year since 1980, those overseas countries in which police forces have received support for training from his budget. [8026]
§ Mr. SoamesRecords of training provided in the UK were not held centrally before September 1993 and information before that date is incomplete. There is no record of UK training of civilian police forces being funded by my Department since that date, although training has been carried out, funded either by other Government Departments or the countries themselves.
344WDetailed records of training provided overseas are not maintained centrally. However, from the early 1980s until 30 June 1996, my Department did part-fund loan service personnel in the Caribbean who, among other duties, provided training for police special service units in Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Caribbean Dependent Territories. Since June the training, though still conducted by members of the armed forces, has been wholly funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.