Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will take steps to provide funding from the overseas aid budget to help support people who have experienced sexual violence in Ethiopia.

In northern Ethiopia, the UK has provided £4 million to help support survivors of sexual violence. We are also implementing recommendations from the 2021 scoping mission by the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative (PSVI) Team of Experts. This includes working with women's rights organisations to enhance support services to survivors of violence; new research into the drivers and dynamics of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV); and coordination of the international response to gender based violence.

The UK will shortly publish the new PSVI strategy. This strategy outlines how the UK Government and other stakeholders can contribute to addressing CRSV through diplomatic, development, and defence interventions.