Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Deputy Foreign Secretary, if he will take steps with his international counterparts to support the Kenyan government in managing evacuations near dams and reservoirs due to ongoing flood risks.

Following recent periods of intense rainfall a nationwide assessment of all dams has been conducted with nearly 200 identified as high risk. Government-led search and rescue operations are ongoing with the police, public health officers and others assisting across all emergency locations. In response to the flooding the UK has provided £850,000 to UNICEF to support the provision of cash transfers to nearly 7,000 households in the worst affected counties. UK funding will also deliver urgently needed health, nutrition and sanitation services. We remain in close contact with our Kenyan and international partners on the continuing response.