Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether she plans to (a) end, (b) reduce funding for or (c) not provide anticipated funding for any UK Aid projects in order to enable the increase of funding for Ukraine.

The UK has now pledged £220 million of Official Development Assistance (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. In addition to our humanitarian funding the UK has provided £74 million of fiscal support alongside £100 million in support for energy resilience. We are on track to meet our target of £60 million disbursed by the end of March.

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 £200 million. The UK has delivered eleven aircraft loads of medical equipment, totalling over 3.7 million items, including wound care packs, ventilators, over 350,000 individual doses of medicine, including antibiotics and pain relief to support surgery and post-operative recovery and generators to provide power including for hospitals and water treatment plants . We also brought 21 children with cancer and their families to the UK for treatment.

We will set out aid allocations in due course.