Fury as UK government spends millions on protecting Saudi royal family despite cuts
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mirror.co.ukAn MP has hit out at the government for spending millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money helping oil rich Saudi Arabia protect its royal family at a time of defence cuts at home.
Martyn Day said it was ‘beyond belief’ that our soldiers and airmen were working alongside the desert kingdom’s armed forces while our troops suffer from ‘slashes in spending’.
The Ministry of Defence revealed in a parliamentary answer that between 2016-2020 the UK’s military’s training for Saudi Arabia cost the taxpayer nearly £2.5m.
This included £1.7m through the Integrated Activity Fund, £500,000 through the Gulf Strategy Fund and more than £220,000 through the Defence Assistance Fund.
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