Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will place a copy of any correspondence between his Department and Adam Smith International since 2014 on the risk of money in his Department's Official Development Assistance budget earmarked for the access to the justice and community security scheme being used for corrupt or fraudulent practices or being diverted to armed groups inside Syria in the Library.

​I have written to all MPs on the allegations concerning the Adam Smith International and Foreign and Commonwealth's Access to Justice and Community Security (AJACS) programme in Syria. In that letter I explained that Her Majesty's Government is undertaking an investigation into these claims, and that the AJACs programme has been suspended while this investigation is carried out.

I will update all MPs at the earliest opportunity into the outcomes of this investigation and the future of this programme.