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Written Question
Middle East
Wednesday 5th November 2014

Asked by: Mark Hunter (Liberal Democrat - Cheadle)

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent assessment she has made of the situation of refugees in Syria and Iraq.

Answered by Justine Greening

The UN estimates that 6.4 million people are internally displaced in Syria and a further 1.8 million people internally displaced in Iraq. There are over 3.2 million Syrian refugees in neighbouring countries.