Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much Official Development Assistance (ODA) funding his Department and its predecessors allocated to the humanitarian response in Yemen in (a) 2019 and (b) 2020; and how much ODA funding his Department plans to allocate to that matter in 2021.

Last financial year (19/20), the UK contributed £240 million on the humanitarian response in Yemen. Our total commitment for this financial year (20/21) is £214 million. This takes our total commitment to over £1 billion since the conflict began in 2015.

Our funding is providing support to at least 500,000 vulnerable people each month to help them buy food and household essentials, enrolling 25,000 children on malnutrition programmes and providing 1 million people with improved water supply and basic sanitation across Yemen.

I will announce the UK allocation for Yemen for the upcoming financial year (21/22) at the Yemen Pledging Conference on 1 March.