Question follow-through · 61643
Armed Forces: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which countries the armed forces provided training to in (a) 2023-24 and (b) 2024-25; and which armed service provided that training.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 20 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 25 Jun 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Opposition Day Motion: Defence spending and readiness - Prime Minister's Amendment · 23 Jun 2026
- Opposition day: Defence spending and readiness · 23 Jun 2026
- Armed Forces Bill Report Stage: Amendment 11 · 22 Jun 2026
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Recorded timeline
20 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which countries the armed forces provided training to in (a) 2023-24 and (b) 2024-25; and which armed service provided that training.
25 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Jun 2025
Answer published
I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to his Question 60404 on 24 June, where I answered:The UK Armed Forces provided various forms of military training to around 120 countries in 2023- 24 and 140 countries in 2024-25. Our training provision is tail...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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