To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs on how many occasions representatives of (a) the EU and the European Union-led naval force and (b) international humanitarian agencies have requested access to individuals transferred to custody in Kenya in connection with alleged acts of piracy; and whether each such request was granted. (273354)

The German ambassador to Kenya recently visited the suspected pirates who Germany had previously transferred (on 10 March 2009 and 8 April 2009) into Kenyan custody. We are not aware of any other EU representatives or any international humanitarian agency having requested access to suspected pirates who have been transferred to Kenyan custody.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs pursuant to the answer of 29 April 2009, Official Report, column 1335W, on Kenya, what undertakings the UK has made under the December 2008 Memorandum of Understanding with Kenya on the transfer of persons suspected of committing acts of piracy. (273357)

The Kenyan Government do not wish to make public the detail of the December 2008 Memorandum of Understanding with the UK on the transfer of persons suspected of having committed acts of piracy. We can say in broad terms that the UK has undertaken to co-operate with the Kenyan authorities in relation to the preparation and presentation of evidence to assist the Kenyan authorities to prosecute any pirates handed over to them.