Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what measures her Department has put in place to assist children recovered from abduction in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

DFID provides assistance to children recovered from abduction in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by supporting child protection interventions through our £175million humanitarian programme. The United Nations Children’s Funds and the International Committee for the Red Cross are our key partners implementing child protection services, particularly in Kasai Centrale and Kasai Orientale. Their support includes identification, documentation, family tracing and reunification, recreational support, child friendly spaces and individual psychosocial support. In 2017 DFID helped 474 children exit from militias or detention centres and reunited 88 children with their families.