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 have been deployed to assist Rohingya refugees since August 2017.

Four members of the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative Team of Experts (PSVI ToE) have been deployed to Bangladesh to date by this Department in support of survivors of sexual violence among Rohingya refugees. This forms part of the UK’s wider £129 million humanitarian response to the crisis that includes counselling and psychological support to more than 10,000 women, supporting 30 child-friendly spaces and training and deploying midwives to Cox’s Bazar to help provide 53,500 women with midwifery care. As independent experts, two members of the ToE have also been contracted by other organisations to deliver work in support of the Rohingya which has benefitted this department’s work.