Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment she has made of the pace and number of home reconstructions in Gaza through the Gaza Reconstruction Mechanism.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) recently assessed that since April 2016 the pace of reconstruction of homes destroyed or damaged during the 2014 conflict has slowed due to increased restrictions on the entry of building materials into the Gaza Strip, prolonging the vulnerability of more than 10,000 families who are still displaced. UNOCHA also assessed that by November 2016, 39 percent of the 17,800 housing units destroyed or severely damaged in the 2014 conflict had been rebuilt.