Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what funding her Department is providing for the Trans African Pipeline; and with what countries her Department is co-operating on improvements to irrigation across the Sahel and contiguous areas.

DFID is monitoring the Trans Africa Pipeline initiative but has not provided any direct support. DFID has provided £56 million to build resilience and adaptation to climate extremes and disasters in the Sahel since 2013. This has included support to improving irrigation through providing solar water pumps for small scale irrigation, and wells and boreholes in Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and Chad.