Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what nutrition and food security funding has been (a) allocated and (b) disbursed to programmes in Uganda in 2022 as of 14 July.

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has allocated £9.9 million to be spent on humanitarian interventions in Uganda in financial year 2022/23. This funding will support vulnerable persons, particularly those suffering from undernutrition and food insecurity. In addition, in March 2022, a disbursement of £640,000 was made to the World Food Programme (WFP) to provide food assistance; this was part of an overall contribution of £6.74 million to WFP activities in Uganda in financial year 2021/22.