Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to reports published in The Times and The Yorkshire Post that facilities at the Royal Academy of Policing in Bahrain have been used for the torture of political prisoners, whether they have any agreement with the Royal Academy of Policing, in particular any agreement to (1) fund, or (2) provide training to, that Academy; and if so, whether those reports affect this relationship in any way.

The British Government takes note of a number of sources of information on Bahrain. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office does not currently provide funding to the Bahrain Royal Academy of Policing.