To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether his Department (a) provides and (b) sponsors (i) advisory visits and (ii) information exchanges on military operations and tactics in urban theatres to Colombia; when the last such visit or exchange took place; and if he will make a statement. (295111)

Advisory visits and information exchanges between the UK and Colombia on military operations and tactics in urban theatres no longer take place. Historic records of visits and exchanges are not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.