Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the Government's announcement on 1 March 2022 that the UK will provide £80 million of humanitarian assistance to Ukraine, if she will provide a breakdown of how much of that funding has been disbursed as of 14 March 2022; what the timetable is for disbursing that funding; whether that humanitarian aid will be delivered to (a) Ukraine or (b) the borders of that country to support refugees; whether that funding will be counted as (i) Official Development Assistance (ODA) and (ii) in addition to the 0.5 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI) target for the relevant financial years.

The UK has now pledged £220 million of ODA (counted as part of the 0.5% Gross National Income) for humanitarian assistance to meet immediate humanitarian needs and support the international humanitarian response to the crisis in Ukraine and the region.

So far this financial year we have disbursed funding to humanitarian agencies in Ukraine; committed £25 million to the Disasters Emergency Committee Ukraine Appeal through the UK Aid match scheme, which has now raised over £150 million; and provided non-food items including medical supplies, to support immediate humanitarian needs. We have deployed a 13 person field team of humanitarian experts to the region to provide logistics advice and analysis of the evolving refugee situation and needs. This analysis will inform further humanitarian funding disbursements in this financial year and next.