Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the workshop on the mechanisms of independent investigations held by The Office of the Ombudsman and the Special Investigation Unit in cooperation with the British Embassy in Bahrain and the Independent Office for Police Conduct in Bahrain in November 2021, from which Government funding stream those workshops were met; and to which budget is the work of the Government programme providing that support allocated.

Funding was jointly provided by the United Nations Development Programme in Bahrain and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office's (FCDO) Gulf Strategy Fund which is a component of the FCDO International Programme. An annual summary of the Gulf Strategy Fund for 2021/22 will be published on gov.uk. Updates will be provided on an annual basis.