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Written Question
Migration and Conflict Directorate
Monday 3rd November 2025

Asked by: Alex Ballinger (Labour - Halesowen)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether she has considered dissolving her Department's Migration and Conflict Directorate.

Answered by Seema Malhotra - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

I refer the Hon. Member to the answer provided on 11 July 2025 to Question 64725.


Written Question
Migration and Conflict Directorate
Monday 3rd November 2025

Asked by: Alex Ballinger (Labour - Halesowen)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether she has made a recent assessment of the effectiveness of the Migration and Conflict Directorate in (a) preventing and (b) reducing conflict in priority contexts; what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of that Directorate in providing analysing to the (a) UK Integrated Security Fund and (b) other programmes.

Answered by Seema Malhotra - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

I refer the Hon. Member to the answer provided on 11 July 2025 to Question 64725.


Written Question
Yemen: Development Aid
Wednesday 29th October 2025

Asked by: Alex Ballinger (Labour - Halesowen)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much official development assistance funding she plans to provide to Yemen in each of the next five years.

Answered by Hamish Falconer - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

Specific funding allocations in future years for individual programmes and countries will be confirmed in the usual way in due course.


Written Question
Yemen: Development Aid
Wednesday 29th October 2025

Asked by: Alex Ballinger (Labour - Halesowen)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much foreign aid she plans to grant to Yemen for the 2026-27 fiscal year.

Answered by Hamish Falconer - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

Specific funding allocations in future years for individual programmes and countries will be confirmed in the usual way in due course.