Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that the humanitarian crises in and around Ukraine receives adequate (a) support and (b) funding, whilst ensuring that other humanitarian crises including those in Afghanistan and Yemen, do not lose the support and funding they require.

The UK is one of the leading humanitarian donors to Ukraine, pledging almost £400 million in aid, including £220 million of humanitarian assistance. These funds will be used to save lives, protect vulnerable people inside the country and in the wider region. In addition to funding, the UK has deployed a field team of 13 humanitarian experts to Poland, Moldova and Romania to provide logistics advice and analyse the evolving refugee situation.

The UK remains committed to the pledges it has made in response to other humanitarian crises, including Yemen and Afghanistan. In Yemen, the total amount of UK funding since the conflict began is approximately £970 million. In Afghanistan, the UK will have disbursed approximately £286 million in aid, by the end of this financial year.