Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many of his Department’s Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative experts are providing assistance to Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.

Four members of the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative (PSVI) Team of Exerts (ToE) have been deployed to Bangladesh to date by this Department in support of survivors of sexual violence among Rohingya refugees. We are planning a further deployment by two experts in July. Their work will inform future UK-led capacity building for practitioners by experts, including members of the ToE. This forms part of the UK’s wider £129 million humanitarian response to the crisis.