Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to strengthen the use of early warning systems to identify and prevent emerging conflicts from escalating.

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office supports the development and use of early warning to anticipate, mitigate and prevent emerging and escalating conflicts working with partners. For example, the UK has financed Complex Risk Analytics Fund (CRAF'd), the UN multi-donor fund, with £6.24 million to invest in crisis data, to ensure that key early warning data remain viable and open to as many conflict actors as possible.