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Debate between Christopher Pincher and Baroness Featherstone
Wednesday 3rd September 2014
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The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development (Lynne Featherstone)
The UK has provided £23 million in humanitarian assistance to the Central African Republic crisis since mid-2013, as well as £2.5 million in development funding through central programmes. We are the second largest bilateral donor and some of that money goes to the region for refugees.
Christopher Pincher (Tamworth) (Con)
T4. What humanitarian assistance has DFID afforded to the Iraqi town of Amerli, which until recently was surrounded by ISIL militants, resulting in thousands of Shi’a Turkmen being threatened with starvation and death?