Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to provide the Tigray region with humanitarian support.

We welcome the recent peace agreement between the Government of Ethiopia and the Tigray People's Liberation Front. The agreement provides for unfettered humanitarian access and for the resumption of essential basic services. In the last eighteen months the UK has provided almost £90 million of humanitarian support to people affected by crises throughout Ethiopia including in Tigray. The recently announced £14 million package of humanitarian funding will deliver support to 150,000 people in Tigray and other regions of Ethiopia.