Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has (a) suspended or (b) cancelled any funding programmes in Uganda in the last 12 months.

Following the disproportionate response by the Ugandan security services to the protests at the end of November 2020, we took the decision to pause funding of three projects totalling £40,909 which were working directly with the Ugandan security services. These projects include: one delivering human rights training to the Uganda Police Force, a second delivering human rights training to the Uganda Prison Service and a third project, providing training materials to the UPDF to document and investigate conflict-related sexual violence. In addition to the wider UK Overseas Development Assistance review, we are currently reviewing UKAid spend in Uganda, including the permanent status of the above projects.