Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking to lower rates of water-borne diseases in conflict areas throughout the world.

Since 2015 DFID has supported 24.9 million people living in fragile states to access clean water and sanitation to lower the rates of water-borne diseases. This includes 16.7 million beneficiaries living in states with a high level of fragility, such as Syria and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

In Yemen, we are bringing together the science community, including the UK Met Office, US academics and NASA (the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration), with operational partners on the ground to improve the forecasting of where cholera is likely to occur, to enable earlier preparedness and action.