Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate he has made of the number of substantially or wholly UK-based charitable organisations and social enterprises which operate in the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea.

One UK headquartered charitable organisation, Save the Children International, has a permanent office in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). Substantially or wholly UK-based charitable organisations or social enterprises operating in the DPRK are not required to make us aware of their activities. Therefore, it would be difficult to make a reliable estimate on the numbers of such organisations engaged in any sort of activity in DPRK.