Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what reasons the Defence Cooperation Agreement between the UK and Kenya has not yet been ratified.

The Defence Cooperation Agreement (DCA) must be ratified through Parliamentary processes in both the UK and Kenya. This process has been completed in the UK. In Kenya, ratification was tabled for discussion in Parliament on 13 July 2022. This session was subsequently cancelled. It is not for the UK to comment on Kenyan Parliamentary decisions and timetabling. The existing DCA arrangements remain in place through a bridging arrangement. A revised DCA was signed by both the UK and Kenyan governments in July 2021.