To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what expenditure his Department has incurred in providing training to members of the Colombian armed forces in each year since 2000. (242764)

In assisting the Colombian security forces in the areas of human rights and demining, the MOD spent the following approximate figures in each of the following financial years:

As well as these bilateral projects, the UK supports projects running through several UN agencies including the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, and the UN Office of Drugs and Crime, that provide training to more than two thousand serving men and women.