Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what support his Department is providing to Ukraine on humanitarian demining.

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has a £2 million agreement with The HALO Trust under the Global Mine Action Programme to undertake mine action activities, including clearance, in Ukraine. HALO is currently using UK funding to conduct survey, clearance and explosive ordinance risk education in northern and eastern Ukraine. The FCDO is also providing demining equipment and training to the State Emergency Services (SES) as part of its £14.5 million contribution to the multi-donor Partnership Fund for Resilient Ukraine and providing £0.6 million to the UN Development Programme to help sector coordination.