Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether armed Misseriya or Twic militias have benefited from her Department's aid programmes targeted at northern areas of Abyei where Dinka Ngok are not present.

We do not currently support long-term development projects in northern areas of Abyei. The Common Humanitarian Fund (CHF) to which the UK contributes has provided support to humanitarian aid projects which provide life saving support in the form of health, water and sanitation, nutrition and child protection projects in northern parts of Abyei.