Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment her Department has made of the security situation in the Central African Republic.

DFID regularly monitors the security and humanitarian situation in CAR. High levels of violence continue across the country, and a million people have been displaced since December 2013. The security situation impacts not only communities but humanitarian workers. The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has reported 1,120 security incidents since January 2014 of which 10% were directed at humanitarian organisations. In 2014 DFID has provided £18 million to the ICRC, UN agencies and international NGOs to support communities who have suffered from the violence.