Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will make an assessment of the effect of providing support for gender equality in Syria on a) conflict resolution, and b) the role of women as carers in conflict situations.

The UK Government is committed to enabling women to have a voice within the UN-led peace process, and has encouraged the full participation of women in the Syrian opposition’s negotiating team. We recognise the essential and diverse roles that women and girls play within the conflict as carers, and heads of households. We design our programmes to take gender equality into account in line with the Gender Equality Act (2014).