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Select Committee
Tenth Special Report - Free Trade Agreement Negotiations with the Gulf Cooperation Council: Government response to the International Trade Committee’s Seventh Report

Special Report Jun. 29 2023

Committee: Business and Trade Committee (Department: Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy)

Found: (Paragraph 22) We are negotiating an FTA with the GCC customs bloc, which comprises Bahrain, Kuwait,

Select Committee
Human Security Centre
 AFR0004 - Armed Forces Readiness

Written Evidence Jun. 13 2023

Inquiry: Armed Forces Readiness
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Defence Committee (Department: Ministry of Defence)

Found: Other ships have had their availability limited due to technical issues.

Written Question
Bahrain: Prisons
Friday 9th June 2023

Asked by: Zarah Sultana (Labour - Coventry South)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department plans to provide (a) training and (b) project funding to prisons in Bahrain in the 2023-24 financial year.

Answered by David Rutley - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

The FCDO continues to support Bahraini-led reform in a range of areas, including security and justice. The FCDO will continue to support the Ministry of Interior's reforms in Financial Year (FY) 2023/24, though project areas are yet to be formally confirmed. There is no direct funding provided to prisons and all technical assistance is delivered through implementing partners.

Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Home Office

Jun. 06 2023

Source Page: Immigration Rules archive: 13 April 2023 to 31 May 2023
Document: Immigration Rules archive: 13 April 2023 to 31 May 2023 (PDF)

Found: , so long as they are receiving such protection or assistance; (b) are recognised by the competent

Written Question
Bahrain: Technical Assistance
Thursday 1st June 2023

Asked by: Richard Burgon (Labour - Leeds East)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether the Government plans to continue to provide technical assistance to the (a) Ministry of Interior, (b) Ministry of Interior Ombudsman and (c) Special Investigations Unit of Bahrain through (i) the Gulf Strategy Fund and (ii) other means.

Answered by David Rutley - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

The FCDO supports Bahraini-led reforms in a range of areas, including security and justice. All assistance is delivered through implementing partners under the Gulf Strategy Fund. The latest list of projects in Bahrain for Financial Year 2022/23 can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/official-development-assistance-oda-fcdo-international-programme-spend-objectives-2022-to-2023/fcdo-gulf-strategy-fund-gsf.

The FCDO will continue to support the Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Interior's Ombudsman and the Special Investigation Unit of Bahrain in Financial Year 2023/24.

Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Home Office

Apr. 26 2023

Source Page: Immigration Rules archive: 12 April 2023 to 12 April 2023
Document: Immigration Rules archive: 12 April 2023 to 12 April 2023 (PDF)

Found: , so long as they are receiving such protection or assistance; (b) are recognised by the competent

Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Home Office

Apr. 19 2023

Source Page: Immigration Rules archive: 30 January 2023 to 11 April 2023
Document: Immigration Rules archive: 30 January 2023 to 11 April 2023 (PDF)

Found: exceptions in VN 2.2 to VN 6.5): Afghanistan Albania Algeria Angola Armenia Azerbaijan Bahrain

Select Committee
Formal Minutes 2022-23 (to 31 March 2023)

Formal Minutes Apr. 17 2023

Committee: Home Affairs Committee (Department: Home Office)

Found: Consultant Psychiatrist at South London and Maudsley NHS Trust, Professor Roger Knaggs, Chair of the Technical

Parliamentary Research
Human rights protections for Palestinians - CDP-2023-0083
Apr. 03 2023

Found: Under the US -led Abraham Accords, both the UAE and Bahrain signed agreements to normalise relations

Select Committee
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, and Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Oral Evidence Mar. 28 2023

Inquiry: Work of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Inquiry Status: Open
Committee: Foreign Affairs Committee (Department: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)

Found: Sir Philip Barton: A substantial amount of money, both official development assistance and non-ODA