Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much the Government has committed to spend to support victims of the Kahramanmaras earthquake.

The UK has now committed more than £43 million in aid funding to address humanitarian needs in Turkey and Syria. This is funding additional emergency relief, including tents and blankets and the ongoing deployment of UK medical expertise through the joint FCDO-MoD Field Hospital in Turkoglu. The UK committed £5 million to the DEC Joint Appeal for Turkey and Syria, which has raised over £93 million. On 9 February, the UK announced that it has committed an additional £4.3million from the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund, to aid the White Helmets major search-and-rescue operations in Syria. To date the UK has delivered over 400 tonnes of relief items to both Turkey and Syria.