Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the publication of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis which showed an increase in the number of acutely hungry people in Haiti, what discussions he has had with the World Food Programme on the situation in Haiti since the publication of that analysis.

Food security is a key priority for the UK Government as set out in the refresh of the Integrated Review (IR) published in March 2023. There is a rising global food security crisis in 2023 with 46 million people across 36 countries estimated to be living in famine or one step away from it. We are committed to working with our international partners to respond to this situation and engage regularly with the World Food Programme (WFP) as part of this. We are monitoring the situation in Haiti closely including through the British Embassy in Port-au-Prince.