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Sri Lanka: Military Aid

Commons · Question 41299 · Tabled 25 Mar 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office · Official record

Answered 1 Apr 2025

Question

Asked by Brian Leishman

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, for what reasons his Department took seven years to respond to freedom of information request entitled FCO 37/3979 Training of the Sri Lankan military in the UK.

Answer

Answered by Catherine West, 1 Apr 2025

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) received a request for access to information held on file reference FCO 37/3979 in June 2018. A response was issued four months later in October 2018. The material in question is subject to ongoing l...