Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent diplomatic steps his Department has taken to support peace and stability in Ethiopia.

The UK has provided significant support to promote peace and stability in Ethiopia including a package of economic stabilisation funding budgeted at more than £130 million via British International Investment. Last year the UK also provided over £77 million in humanitarian aid to Ethiopia. The UK has also resourced peacebuilding activities including for the African Union's monitoring mission for Tigray. In recent weeks senior FCDO officials including the Director General for Africa and the Americas, and the Special Envoy for the Red Sea and Horn of Africa visited Ethiopia to support diplomatic engagement including in relation to violence in Amhara.