Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent assessment she has made of the humanitarian aid needs of people in Aleppo.

The UN estimates that over 36,000 Syrians across Aleppo have been displaced in recent weeks. In besieged eastern Aleppo, where up to 275,000 people live, intensified attacks by the Assad regime and its allies has led to severe food and water shortages, near exhaustion of medical supplies and high numbers of people requiring urgent medical evacuation. In western Aleppo, the UN reports that indiscriminate attacks have also killed and injured civilians.