Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has had discussions with his US counterpart on providing USAID to Sudan.

We have engaged closely and productively with our US colleagues about the crisis in Sudan and the UK greatly values the role played by the US as the largest financial humanitarian donor. The former Foreign Secretary has raised Sudan personally with the US Secretary of State; discussions have focused on bettering humanitarian access and how to push for an end to the fighting. We also continue to engage with the US at official-level on humanitarian issues and to coordinate support for the UN-led push for a humanitarian ceasefire in El Fasher.